How do I compare hosting companies in terms of connectivity to a particular country?

well to my mind the us has most of the internet traffic going in and out whereas europe is also getting bigger every month so if your target is not in the us or the eu you need to ask a hosting co for a web site in their infrastructure so you can do a decent test via ping etc

 

so the ping result will give me a sense of connectivity?

what's a good number indication?

any other way?  how is it different from traceroute?

btw, my target audience is in asia.

i just got the ping results from two data centers.

is 173ms vs 290ms between two data centers going to make a big difference?

should this figure be the major determinant factor for me to choose one over the other?

cost of hosting service in asia is still considered relatively high at this point.

the hosting i'm evaluating does have both cloud (290ms ping result) and dedicated servers (both 173ms and 290 ping result).

is a 290ms ping result considered relatively slow to a 173ms ping result?  is it an obvious browsing experience for the end user in terms of page loading and responsiveness?

for my usage, mostly static content serving, i know that it won't utilize that much cpu/memory and the bandwidth should be sufficient.

my consideration is only the speed and responsiveness for the browsing experience for the visitors.