Question about nameservers

[BluJag]

To what extent does the physical location of a nameserver affect the speed of a website ? I mean how long before it appears, not how fast it subsequently arrives on the local computer browser.

There is an outfit called ZoneEdit who provide a nameserver service, and they have their nameservers all over the place, which I suppose is to give a better response?

Are JoDos nameservers in the same place geographically? Would having them in different continents make any difference?

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Stephen]

All of our nameservers are in Miami, it won't affect speed much really, in my experience.

 

[BluJag]

Stephen - that was an amazingly fast response! Last time I was in Miami (3 weeks ago) I was in a Hyatt using their WiFi (provided by T-Mobile) and it was lightning fast - now I know why! The previous week I was in LA and the WiFi was like treacle - but there was also a conference in the hotel at the same time which I reckon was grabbing all the bandwidth. Right now in San Francisco (wired at the Argent hotel) it's very fast indeed.

Thanks for the info,
Rob.