Short answer
In a data centre in Montreal, Canada, on Traxio’s DirectAdmin hosting platform. Traxio itself is a UK business.
Every Traxio account is hosted on the same DirectAdmin platform, so there’s no location to choose. Traxio itself is a UK business, run by a sole trader.
Server location affects the time it takes for the first byte to travel, measured in tens of milliseconds; page weight, caching and image sizes usually affect load time far more.
If you want content served from somewhere physically closer to your visitors, Cloudflare’s free plan caches your pages in its own network worldwide. Cloudflare is the only proxy or CDN Traxio supports.
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- Using Cloudflare with Traxio hostingHow to put Cloudflare in front of a Traxio site: DNS records to create, the right SSL mode, keeping email records unproxied, and avoiding redirect loops.
- Why is my website slow?A methodical way to find why a website is slow — server response, page weight, third-party scripts or distance — and what to fix first.
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