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Vultr US (location?) vs Cloudflare for North & South America?
Hi!
I'm looking to host a website that will likely receive traffic from both north & south america (mostly CA/US/MX/BR). I was thinking to host it on Vultr as I have some credit with them.
Would Miami be the best location or do you think anything else would be better? How is their network? Would adding cloudflare in front of Vultr be better or worse than going for Vultr? I assume cloudflare network is good in north america, is it good to south america too?
Thanks a lot!
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The Cloudflare CDN will help you like any other CDN in the sense that your assets are cached on servers that are near your audience, that means that it doesn't matter as much where the actual website is hosted. You can go with Miami, which has in general a lower latency to south america than for example NYC, there are better locations for Canada, so you need to decide for yourself what's the best location (for example how many % are visiting from CA, how many from south america, etc.)
Thanks. Do some US datacenters vultr uses have better peering than others?
From Perú. The best Location its Miami. And if you use Cloudflare its better. Cos Cloudflare has servers on Lima Perú. Santiago. Sao Paulo BR .
Tampa (Hivelocity) and Miami (Quadrant) are the best locations for South America. The next one is Dallas.
I have never connected to Cloudflare Peru
https://vultrbenchmarks.corbpie.com
Vultr, not Vulrt
Yah Vultr (Miami) & Cloudflare would be more than adequate to host your website. As long as you use updated services and technologies performance will be great. (nginx, http/2, preload, etc.)
Ok, thanks! I was afraid that cloudflare might have crappy bandwidth to south america, if it works fine I'll probably do vultr+cloudflare
I hosted a website mainly targeting South America customer recently.
At first I tried one provider's Miami location, but it's wget speed from Europe and some North America cities is only 300K-3M/s, so I migrated the website to vultr.
Once the hosting locations are South America and Miami, the choice is much less.
Try @vapornode in miami too. I like their network to south america quite a bit, although I have forgotten which DC they are in.
Hivelocity.
And BTW CF has a pop in Argentina
Not sure if they allow free users to route their traffic through there.
From my reading both free and paying customers use the same network with as many pops. Never tried to check that myself though.
I've had 8 msecs to my domain/s without ever paying them ( no f.o.)