The ‘buy local, support local’ movements are ones that are well entrenched across Canada and it is indeed good if you can see to it the money stays in the local community and supports the people who live there. If this is seen strictly in the consumerist sense then there is a lot to be said for it and this is why many people will shop at Mom & Pop shops rather than a big box store. But admirable altruistic intentions aside there is also a lot to be said about getting your website hosted via a data centre that’s local too. The gains there have nothing to do with the health of the local economy, however, and so there’s no connection between that and local web hosting solutions for Canadian businesses. The gain here is going to have nothing to do with dollars at all, although in a roundabout way you could make the argument it does if you have an eCommerce website hosted on one of those local web hosting packages. That will be true if you’re selling more of whatever it is you sell online because the local data centres are delivering loaded web pages more readily for customers who are ready to buy. There are definitely SEO benefits of hosting a site locally too, and between the ability to have pages loading faster and getting better SEO it’s a pretty convincing argument to go with local web hosting if possible. More often than not the price you’re going to pay for web hosting is going to be very similar to what you’d pay for more nationwide providers anyways. Stronger data privacy is also part of the advantages you get when your web hosting provider has your site hosted locally and server requests are being handled and responded to via a local data centre. This makes it an even better choice for secure hosting options for city-focused websites. Here at 4GoodHosting we have 2 state-of-the-art data centres in both B.C. and Ontario and this allows us to have optimized local web hosting for all cities and areas in the Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto areas. Folks just...
