Data Centers

Geographically Diverse Data Centers

MechanicWeb operates hosting services in 7 data centers in the United States (North America), Canada (North America), Luxembourg (Europe) and the United Kingdom (Europe). Only the data centers offering the best networks are selected and utilized. They are strategically located in areas of dense fiber optic connectivity that allows efficient and reliable routing from and to our servers. This ensures that your website's content is delivered across continents at route optimized speeds, without any intermittent delay.

When you host your website with us, you are choosing a provider who cares about the quality of the network that delivers your website. Our servers are connected via diverse fiber transport links that facilitate lower latency and higher network reliability. We use Hivelocity, Dataplace, Cologix, IoFlood, LuxConnect, and CyrusOne as our data center providers. They are also some of the most prestigious data centers in the world.

Which Location is Better for Me?

Like so many things in business, when it comes to servers and data centers, server performance matters more than server location. Choosing the right server for hosting can boost how fast your website loads. A faster server delivers faster page load times, swift response times, and quicker throughput, allowing a better presence in search results. This gives you an advantage in SEO and geo client targeting.

When you visit a website, the server delivers the website data, and the data travels the distance between your computer and the server. The more the distance is, the farther the data travels, and the longer it takes to reach you. This time is the latency between you and the server. It can be negligible depending on the server performance.

In the old days, when internet speed was in kbps, it was the most common bottleneck for page load times. So, people would want to be on a server that was closer to them. This is no longer the case. Now, the server performance is one of the most common limiting factors for page load times, the faster the server, the faster the page load times.

For example, if you are in the EU, you might get ~120ms latency to our Los Angeles, USA server. A server takes 1 - 7.5 seconds to deliver a web page. If it delivers ~1 second faster, the page load time will be ~820ms faster (1 second = 1000 milliseconds) than a server which is ~120ms closer. This is why a server that performs better will deliver faster page load times than a server that is closer to you.

Our Los Angeles, USA server has the newest Xeon E-2136 CPU with 4.5 GHz clock speed and DDR4-2666 MHz memory. It can deliver faster page load times and withstand larger workloads without impacting the overall server load. Most of the shared hosting servers have E3 and E5 CPUs which are ~3.5 GHz in speed with DDRR3-1600 MHz memory.

The Los Angeles, USA location has better hardware, multi-homed bandwidth, and connected to 300+ peers. It will be a better choice for visitors from the USA, Asia, South-East Asia, or any other part of the world because of the diverse network connectivity and better hardware. On the other hand, North Carolina, USA, can be a better choice if you have visitors from the USA and UK.