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dennisf
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 Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:57 pm Post subject: Is Pocket GPS World British ?? |
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| Hi, i was just wondering, as my browser informs me the site is hosted in the us, also most of the adverts are also of us origin. |
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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AFAIK, It's British so far as anything has a nationality on the Web!
All the Admin people I've met are British, (but at least one, Lutz, is based in the US), the subscriptions are dealt with in £ sterling, and of the text ads I see on the right hand side, three are UK-based with co.uk addresses, one (Proclip) is international and takes you to their Country selector page, and the other one (EvermoreGPS.com) could be anywhere! |
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dennisf
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| Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Andy_P wrote: | AFAIK, It's British so far as anything has a nationality on the Web!
All the Admin people I've met are British, (but at least one, Lutz, is based in the US), the subscriptions are dealt with in £ sterling, and of the text ads I see on the right hand side, three are UK-based with co.uk addresses, one (Proclip) is international and takes you to their Country selector page, and the other one (EvermoreGPS.com) could be anywhere! |
Hi Andy, it just seems strange a predominently european web site, is hosted by Planet internet in Houston Texas. |
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Andy_P
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| I had a quick rummage through my browser menus (Firefox) and couldn't see a way to find out things like that.... What's the secret? |
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gblades
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Many high bandwidth web sites are hosted in the USA due to the much lower bandwidth costs. For example one compant I use (1&1) does hosting in the UK and USA.
UK - £5/pm - 20GB/month bandwidth allowance
USA - $5/pm - 1200GB/month bandwidth allowance
So 2/3 the price and 60 times more bandwidth before you have to pay extra. |
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Darren
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We are a UK based and registered limited company. We choose to host in the US simply because of the massive savings in hosting costs. Nothing odd or unusual in such a practice, many high profile UK companies host overseas for similar reasons.
As to adverts, the vast majority are from UK advertisers.
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mostdom
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| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:44 am Post subject: Re: Is Pocket GPS World British ?? |
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| dennisf wrote: | | ...also most of the adverts are also of us origin. |
This might be because of the power that is Google ads if it can detect which country you are browsing from.
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Gee-Pee
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| Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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But, the forum members are a truly international lot  and I would not wish it otherwise.....
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dennisf
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| Andy_P wrote: | | I had a quick rummage through my browser menus (Firefox) and couldn't see a way to find out things like that.... What's the secret? |
Try flagfox, which will give you the country of origin, followed by Visualroute for more detailed information. |
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