Which data center location should I choose?

Question

Network administration

Hello! Guys tell me, For a site whose clients are in Europe - what is the optimal location of the data center? Taking into account the fact that the site will be promoted in Europe. I don’t know how it is now, but I’ve heard for a long time that all DCs in Europe first go through France, so it’s best to take it in France.

Answer 1

If customers are located in Europe, I suggest choosing Germany.
There is DC AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner.
From Great Britain and France there are optical highways across the Atlantic Ocean to America.
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Answer 2

hetzner - the best value for money.
also note that the distance between France and Germany is several times less than between Moscow and Belgorod, where countries are 300 km long.
this is not a bug for you.

Answer 3

All DCs have about twenty uplinks in all directions, so if ping doesn't matter then any country will do.

Answer 4

No, not Germany. Amsterdam. There is DigitalOcean. To Amsterdam the smallest ping. The reason for this is that some of the Big Three operators have their own equipment in Amsterdam.

Answer 5

To stop thinking about the location of the data center, it's time to learn about CDNs and drive traffic through them. And cache. And choose hosting according to your requirements, but not by location