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I want to buy a shared hosting package from Site5. There are some options for server location. The options are these:

Dallas, TX
Chicago, IL
Los Angeles, CA
San Jose, CA
Seattle, WA
Miami, FL
New York City, NY
Washington, DC
Montreal, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Vancouver, Canada
London, United Kingdom
Sydney, Australia
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Singapore, Singapore

So, I don't know which one will be more suitable for me. Since the main visitors of site will be from Baku / Azerbaijan, I think London or Amsterdam datacenters are more suitable because of distance. But I'm not sure.
Does distance between datacenter and visitor's location affect on performance? What can you suggest me?
Thanks in advance.

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Generally the closer your datacenter is to your clients the better... You should be able to get some speed and latency tests from your vendor to verify. Questions that need to be settled between vendor and client are off topic here however. – Tim Brigham Feb 9 at 17:45
it depends on the routing, if you get them to do some traceroutes you could compare the latencies and hop count – Niko S P Feb 9 at 17:45
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The data streams are very fast but a longer way need more time.

So i think you should inform about the datacenter perhaps you find something on the Site5 page. And when your visitors come from Europe and you know it then you should take a server in Europe.

In Amsterdam you are very near on the AMS-SIX.

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