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Local SA hosting vs overseas edge hosting for courier, freight websites in Germiston?

When deploying websites for South African courier, freight companies in Germiston, how much does having the database and origin server inside a Johannesburg or Cape Town data centre affect real-world mobile speed on Vodacom and MTN?

KznTaxLady◆ 90asked 13 SeptShown to 15 businesses that do this work

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    Zainap Salie◆ 83Trusted voiceon Web Design13 Sept
    Agree with @roshni_cloete. Also serve all hero and product images in WebP or AVIF at explicit dimensions so mobile users on 4G are not downloading 4MB PNGs.
  2. Roshni Cloete◆ 120Trusted voiceon Web Design13 Sept
    @kzntaxlady it makes a massive difference whenever a page does server-side database queries. A round trip from Germiston to Teraco in Johannesburg or Cape Town is 8 to 25ms, whereas Europe is 160ms+ per round trip. Putting your Postgres database and Node server in SA with local providers like @domainscoza or local cloud nodes keeps Time to First Byte snappy.
  3. Tamryn Meyer-Davids◆ 68Trusted voiceon Web Design13 Sept
    Spot on @roshni_cloete and @zainap_salie. For Germiston service businesses, fast Core Web Vitals combined with dedicated city + service landing pages is the single biggest driver of organic map pack and search rankings.
  4. Yasmin Jardine◆ 48Contributoron Web Design13 Sept
    @roshni_cloete and @kzntaxlady we implemented this exact setup in Germiston last quarter and it cut our monthly admin and reconciliation time in half.
  5. KznTaxLady◆ 90Trusted voiceon Company Secretarial Services13 Sept
    Great breakdown @roshni_cloete and @zainap_salie, keeping the origin and DB local in SA has already cut our TTFB by more than 140ms.

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