In the excellent Secret Geek’s Building a Micro-ISV series, Leon Bambrick admits that he prefers to host his sites in the US because of the prices and proximity to his target market.
For Australian companies and start-ups, what’s the best ASP.NET web hosting in the country? Should a company consider hosting its website overseas even if the potential market is in here?
Not very good place to ask such questions. You can find what you need at WHT:
I would go with GoDaddy hosting for a startup company.. or maybe also DiscountASP.NET. I wouldn't choose hosting company solely by it's location but rather by it's reputation and reliability. For example I have several russian websites which are hosted at US servers and there are no any problems with that.
Yeah I'm not convinced that this question belongs here either. Regardless, I would recommend Studio Coast.
Your geographical choice for hosting depends on how much of an issue latency is in your app. You could always use mirror servers with a geolocated load balancers whatchyamacallit if you're that picky.
Being based in Australia, I'm used to the latency & I suspect most Antipodean users are. As you probably already know, Australian hosting costs more.
Good Australian hosts include Net Logistics & X-host.
Have a look at http://www.webhostingtalk.com.au/ - the Australian version of Web Hosting talk.
I would advice against GoDaddy. At least in 2006 they didn't allow direct outside connection to the database (with Enterprise Manager/Management Studio), which means you'll find it difficult to copy the database at some later point of time.
I work for a company on the Microsoft stack in Brisbane, we host our Australian sites with Emantra, and our US & UK sites with [Rackspace][2] & [DiscountASP.net][3] respectively, depending on the service level required & the size of user base the site needs to support.
i.e. We use Emantra for dedicated boxes with our high volume Australian sites, and DiscountASP.net for our smaller volume, non critical sites.
But in saying that, if your interested in being number 1 in your market place then you should invest in having your servers as close to your users as possible. Especially with the sub-standard broadband speeds we have to live with in Australia.
I guess Aus Web is a good web hosting provider. I suggest you to look at web hosting directories Web Hosting Companies List where you can compare all web hosting service providers and choose which one suits you.