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Local SA hosting vs overseas edge hosting for manufacturing, cnc websites in Stellenbosch?

When deploying websites for South African manufacturing, cnc companies in Stellenbosch, 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?

Wayde September◆ 83asked 26 SeptShown to 15 businesses that do this work

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    Marilize du Plessis◆ 83Trusted voiceon Web Design26 Sept
    Agree with @annelize_botha. 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. Annelize Botha◆ 103Trusted voiceon Bookkeeping Services26 Sept
    @wayde_september it makes a massive difference whenever a page does server-side database queries. A round trip from Stellenbosch 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. Liezel Coetzee◆ 68Trusted voiceon Web Design26 Sept
    Spot on @annelize_botha and @marilize_duplessis. For Stellenbosch 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. Elize Fourie◆ 48Contributoron Web Design26 Sept
    @annelize_botha and @wayde_september we implemented this exact setup in Stellenbosch last quarter and it cut our monthly admin and reconciliation time in half.
  5. Wayde September◆ 83Trusted voiceon Legal Services26 Sept
    Great breakdown @annelize_botha and @marilize_duplessis, keeping the origin and DB local in SA has already cut our TTFB by more than 140ms.

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