How to measure that a host is good for users in Egypt ?

Hi all, I currently have a site that's hosted in Texas.

The majority of my users are from Egypt and I'm a bit concerned that the current hosting is not the optimal in terms of performance. The site is not slow but for how can I know if, for example, hosting it in Europe or Asia is better ?

To clarify I need to know there is a way that I can test different hosting options - for example how can I test the average response time between Egypt and a host in Texas, the average response time between Egypt and a host in the UK ?

From serverfault Sherif Buzz

• you can ask for subjective opinions, you can ask someone there to use tools like yslow or google's load time analyzer but they will only provide you values [and maybe hints what to tweak] - it'll be up to you to decide if 1-2s of load time is good enough or not.

  google and others have done lots of studies and load time seems to be pretty crucial for the end-users.

  depending on type of your site - you can consider moving it to European hosting [for dynamic content] and using CDN for moving static content closer to the end user.

  From pQd

• gomez and distributed testing networks can provide this

  From Jeremy Knapp

• There are several providers which will measure your performance externally (e.g. Pingdom). You will need to find one with measure stations near your users.

  From faker

• You can test the performance with http://www.alertfox.com/Tools/LoadTime/ from different locations.

  From FrankJK