How will a wordpress.com powered site perform in Nigeria (low bandwidth issues) ?

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  wpcommons · Member · Feb 21, 2016 at 9:15 pm

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  I’m a WordPress developer that already setup and ran dozens of self-hosted WordPress websites. I’m now wondering if I can propose to my clients to host their sites on wordpress.com. What could be the arguments I could use ?

  One of my clients wants a website that will be updated and read from several emerging countries including Nigeria, Cambodia and Ivory Coast. Will wordpress.com server architecture be efficient enough to serve front-end and backend at a decent speed in those countries ? Would it be the same with a self-hosted Jetpack-powered site ?

  Is there any arguments, other than this one, that could benefit to my client ? For me, the main arguments are that I do not need to care about updating WordPress or plugins or themes.

  Thanks

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 21, 2016 at 9:21 pm

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  I have flagged this for staff input

  But the issue is the local bandwidth not at the WordPress.COM servers which are located in the US – the WP servers are high bandwidth and serve up info quickly – but slowdown is the local structure –

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  wpcommons · Member · Feb 21, 2016 at 9:29 pm

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  Thanks for your answer auxclass.

  I was actually wondering if the WordPress.COM servers were only located in the US. I Imagine that wp.com CDN, that serve static content, are located all over the world. But what about the main app server ? Are you sure that this one is not replicated also in several places outside the US ?

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 21, 2016 at 9:43 pm

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  They have three large server farms in the US – they also have some caching stuff but I don’t know where those servers are – there has been a bit of talk about putting a server farm outside the US but I don’t know if that has happened or if it will – – some people don’t like their content on servers in the US due to our excessive snooping here

  The three server farms gives people on the fly backups