Whether you are a UK citizen looking for a UK Hosting plan or from outside of the UK and requiring UK Hosting you should make sure that the servers are located within the United Kingdom, unless for some reason you dont require the servers to be located in the country and may have another reason for wanting to use a UK web hosting company.

Often on the website it will state if the servers are UK located, but if it doesn't you should contact the webhost and find out, and then double check by running the IP address through a free online IP checker tool and it will usually display a country flag image and quite often even tell you the city that the servers are located in.

If you are using UK domain extensions and targetting a UK audience then it makes sense to use a web host that can provide a plan to you on UK based servers, it can make a difference within the search engines when potential visitors are searching for sites for that particular region.

Filed under: General Web Hosting Info by admin Published September 26, 2008