LogicWeb’s VPS map covers New York, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. The right choice depends on where the users and the other services are, not on which city sounds most prestigious.
Simple decision rules
- North American audience or services → New York.
- European audience → London or Frankfurt (Frankfurt often has strong connectivity into central and eastern Europe).
- Southeast Asian or Australian audience → Singapore.
- East Asian audience → Tokyo.
- Middle East or specific low-latency needs to that region → Tel Aviv.
If the application talks to a database, an API, or a partner service in a particular region, place the VPS near that dependency. Latency to the dependency often matters more than latency to the end user when the page is built dynamically.
What we see in practice
Customers who pick a city based only on price or on a single synthetic test sometimes discover that their real users are elsewhere. Measuring from the actual client geographies, even with simple tools, prevents most of those mistakes.
Moving a VPS later is possible but involves DNS, possible IP changes, and application reconfiguration. Choosing well the first time is cheaper.
The value of the map
Six cities are enough to cover the major concentration of users and services for most of the customers we see. They are also few enough that the network and support stay coherent. The goal is not maximum geographic coverage for its own sake; it is low-latency options where they are most often needed.
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