@nebulon Thanks, I actually did that and to me at least the difference was nothing.

Digital Ocean = 26ms
Hetzner = 35ms

To me at least, that does not appear a significant difference in terms of visitor load time.

@girish All of my sites are just info blogs, a forum and a custom-built history site. They will be fine pretty much anywhere.

Going to go with Hetzner, as I say, not a cheapskate, was willing to pay Digital Ocean $40 per month but Hetzner Cloud gets as good if not better reviews and for much less money. Seems daft not to

@timconsidine That's very useful, thanks.

@timconsidine That's very useful, thanks.

@girish All of my sites are just info blogs, a forum and a custom-built history site. They will be fine pretty much anywhere.

Going to go with Hetzner, as I say, not a cheapskate, was willing to pay Digital Ocean $40 per month but Hetzner Cloud gets as good if not better reviews and for much less money. Seems daft not to

@nebulon Thanks, I actually did that and to me at least the difference was nothing.

Digital Ocean = 26ms
Hetzner = 35ms

To me at least, that does not appear a significant difference in terms of visitor load time.

Hi,

I am moving away from shared hosting in favour of Cloudron. Trying to decide on which VPS provider to use. My intention was to use DigitalOcean in the UK. Three of the key sites I am moving are relevant to the UK market more than anything.

That said I see Hetzner Cloud pricing is so much cheaper. Not that I am a cheapskate by any means but I am wondering whether it really makes that much difference whether I go with DigitalOcean in the UK or Hetzner in Germany.

All sites will be using Cloudflare.

I am guessing here that the only likely difference will be that it will be slightly longer to load the site and pages if hosting in Germany vs the UK but enough for visitors to notice? Not sure.

I suspect there are a lot more experienced folks around here that will know more about this than I do so any views Welcome.

Thanks.

Lee