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Can I ask why? According to you? (I will make a post regarding this)
Why VPS location is so important?
I can understand if you use your VPS to host a game server where the latency is very important. Pinging a Chicago server the latency is between 180-205ms, I am trying from Sicily, south of Italy.
Due to European laws regarding user's data?
I recently read that it doesn't matter WHERE the data is stored but HOW it is used.

Hi @LightDestory You're right about that.  How it is used is important.  Naturally however some data networks are more efficient than others.  I'm sure you know that your ISP works with up and down load speeds and with packets.  Usually when I check a VPS out before I apply for it in a Giveaway, I check whether there is a mirror service on the sponsor's Website, that would provide you with a test IP.  You then use your computer to Ping that IP to see how fast your ISP works with the ISP.  Sometimes you may find even though the location of the test IP is closer to your ISP physical destination, that it may be slower than another location because of the network and how the ISP is sending its packets or the other way round.

I've found it often with the US for example that a location in Phoenix would work better speed and latency wise than one from Buffalo.  Also, there are all other factors that may have an impact on the speed.  At one stage there was an issue in the Phoenix network where packets had been leaked.  And that caused the speed to go down. The network had become overloaded and congested.  So it's always important to ping a test IP of the sponsor of the VPS.

So quite a number of the users of post4vps live near Europe.  Or in Europe.  You can see that the location in Europe then would be more positive for them than for locations in the US.  Particularly the Netherlands.  As in my own personal experience with testing the IPs of my ISP, I've seen The Netherlands and Germany speeds higher than the UK and France or the US with some of the locations I tested, even when at that time my ISP was closer in location to France than to the Netherlands or Germany and very far from the US.  The fastest for me at the time however was Germany - like hugely faster than other centers in Europe or the US.  I think the German network must be more efficient than France, possibly with how my ISP worked with the packets with Germany, but also, maybe Germany has a very good network packet wise.  So German location is very sought after here, but also any of the other locations in Europe in preference to those from the US.  

Having said that however, the datacentres have become so super efficient with how they manage the DNS of IPs, that they work it in a way that makes the packages move faster - so some of the US networks are excellent and compare very well with those in Europe.  For example Contabo in Germany has datacenters in both Germany and in the US.  I'm not a specialist in how they do it, but that must be one sponsor with its own datacenters in different locations that is really excellent with how it networks its IPs.  How I found it out was that I checked the IP from another host I'm working with who thought they were with a German location from a German sponsor - Contabo - but when I checked the IPs they were in the US.  So you're right.  It's the way they do it that counts most, but in the end it's how your ISP communicates with that IP that is the most important and generally in our experience certain locations work better, depending on testing it first. And locations in Europe may be faster.