Location: ZA vs. USA

We provide our customers with a choice of either locally (South Africa) or internationally (UK) based hosting solutions.

Cost of Bandwidth

Highly developed Internet infrastructures and competitive market conditions make bandwidth prices in the UK extremely cost effective.

The cost of bandwidth in South Africa is slowly decreasing however it is still relatively high compared to other countries. Wherever possible, DigiServ™ Technologies cc passes on these cost saving benefits to our customers, ensuring very competitive rates relative to local market conditions.

Transferring your hosting package to our UK hosting location is a good decision if:

	Your website generates high volumes of traffic, resulting in an escalation of costs.
	Your website is targeted at reaching an international market.
	We recommend local hosting only if you are specifically targeting African markets or if you require very fast local speeds.

Hosting in South Africa

Hosting in UK

Optimum access to local target market	Optimum access to international target market
Data Transfer (Bandwidth) over usage pricing is 100x more expensive	Data Transfer (Bandwidth) far less costly
Minimal probability of international latency	Websites accessed from SA load marginally slower
High speed connectivity for South African users	Infrastructure between North America and Europe is excellent and a speed differential is hardly noticeable
Far smaller data transfer limits	Far greater data transfer allowance
Website visitors are less likely to be affected by local ISP bandwidth limitations	SA website visitors' bandwidth quotas are more likely to be exhausted by visiting your website internationally (due to limited international bandwidth capacity, as applied to ADSL users, for example)