We own an ecommerce site and looking to launch our Indian ecommerce store meant only for our Indian customers. We are looking for a VPS hosting for our needs. The site is not content heavy but will have lot of images. We expect traffic of atleast 10-15 visitors at any given time during our initial period and this could grow to around 25-30 visitors at any instant. The site would run on CS-cart shopping cart. We need our site to load faster. 1) Should we go for an Indian hosting company with servers located in India or any Hosting company with servers anywhere in Asia pacific (singapore/hongkong) is enough? 2) Will there be any major affect on the SEO of the site if the site is not located on Indian servers? 3) Most important - please suggest some good Hosting companies with fast network speeds, reliability and reasonable support. 4) What should be a minimum VPS plan (Ram, CPU etc) that we should get to fulfil the above requirements. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thnx
Hi Please find answers below each question 1) If find a good local hosting provider then it is fine. Alternatively you can use one that offer CDN capabilities 2) No. In theory it might be better to use a local Indian IP, but Search engines count the content, not the geographical area of the IP (despite that the Geo dos mater) 3) This is something others would do, I might not say anything here 4) You can get an entry-level VPS like (10 GB space, 500 GB bandwidth, 512 RAM) at low cost. You'll need to handle the VPs administration however. This will increase your monthly bill
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I would recommend Cloud over VPS and as per locations India has not many good and quality hosts that offers some nice cloud hosting. You should try for Singapore ot other Asian Locations.