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  • 09-07-2007 2:44pm
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    ron_darrell
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 351 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    Just a very quick query. I have a .ie registered and have a company hosting the site for me. The connection from Ireland to the UK went t*tswise on Thursday night/Friday morning and so my site went down. I queried the hosting company why and they said 'Our data center is in the UK'. First I heard of it as I had been told that they were hosting from a rack in hosting 365. My question is this; is it ethical to have a .ie site hosted in the UK? Is it ethical for an Irish hosting company to host .ie sites from the UK? Do they need to tell their customers this is the case? Do I need to let my boss/customers know? Will this endanger my .ie status? This probably seems silly and racist. It is isn't. I have no problem with the site being hosted in the UK, I just have a problem with not being told.

    -RD


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,920 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ethical? A domain can be hosted from anywhere but having a localised tld such as .ie hosted outside of Ireland won't help your SEO rankings.
    Who is the company and what did they promise you? It may be the case that you were deceived but we can't answer that without knowing what they first said.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    If they are pretending that they are hosting in Ireland when they aren't then it's unethical.

    Who are they?

    If you don't want to name them in public please feel free to send me a PM

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    CoNfOuNd
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    It all depends on the hosting company and what they say on their site.

    Since it's an .ie domain it could be better for your SEO to have it located on Irish IP space.

    There are some companies who use the term 'Irish host' because they are located in Ireland, but their servers and customer support are based abroad.


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    steve-hosting36
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    Surprisingly few of the hosts (really only the larger ones, but even then not all of those) actually physically host in this country.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    steve-hosting36 wrote:
    Surprisingly few of the hosts (really only the larger ones, but even then not all of those) actually physically host in this country.

    Most of the top 15 (according to http://www.webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/IE ) use Irish based servers.

    The ones that don't are now in the minority.

    I divided them up here:

    http://www.hostingdirectory.ie/pricing.html

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    steve-hosting36
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,161 ✭✭✭steve-hosting36


    You might need to update that table with our new pricing now Michele (.ie , €25.95, com/net/org €5.95, etc)


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