{"id":71,"date":"2020-09-01T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/black.host\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2022-11-24T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T15:32:11","slug":"unmetered-vps-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/black.host\/blog\/unmetered-vps-in-usa","title":{"rendered":"UNMETERED VPS in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a Swiss-based web hosting company, our primary goal in our first 5 years of work was to provide high-performance unmetered services to our customers in Europe. When it comes to performance, there are many tricks to do from a technical point of view. But even if you do all things right, there is one thing that you can\u2019t get away with (for now), the laws of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re reading this, I\u2019m certain you already know that the Internet runs via underground networks of optical cables by emitting light from point A to point B and thus transferring data. The thing is when it comes to the light the universe put speed limit enforcement of ~300,000 km\/s which is fast. But even so, a bit sent from New York will need ~60ms to reach London. This combined with the other networking equipment that is causing additional latency can bring up to 100ms of initial networking delay, which nowadays according to Google is slow<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know that we can\u2019t cheat the universe, so our obvious solution to this problem is to bring our services closer to our end customers, and we\u2019re doing it. Additionally, this approach justified our unmetered business model<\/a> because now we\u2019re connected to major local IXPs (Internet eXchange Point), allowing us to peer with major ISPs and get much better bandwidth deals. Amsterdam was the starting point of our unmetered web-hosting invasion for conquering Europe. The Netherlands has a special place in our hearts, but besides that, it is one of the best-connected countries in Europe, so it made the logical choice. As soon as our client base grew, we started expanding to the \u201couter\u201d boundaries of Europe on all sides. We\u2019ve expanded in London, Madrid, Z\u00fcrich & Vienna, which improved our network performance drastically in Europe but nowhere near being good enough for clients from the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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