Hi everyone, 

currently I am looking into creating a very simple database for a cocktail competition for a spirits brand. The competitors are coming from markets all over the worlds, the local offices are submitting the recipies, images and some further information in my ideal world via webdirect into the database itself. 

I dont think there need to be more then 2-3 users accessing that database simultaneously. 

My question would be if anyone is experienced with filemaker hosters and the perfomance of that hosting when the db is accessed from different parts of the world.  

In other words: where would be an ideal country for hosting the file (in terms of performance) if it were to be accessed from Europe, Japan, USA, Israel, China and South America?

Please advise, 

Thank you.

My gut feel is the US - all the big data pipes go there, so it's the hub of a spoke design (obviously that's a simplification, but the pipe from South America to Japan is small compared to South America - USA, or USA - Japan

I think you may want to think outside the box a bit and put a server in each geo location.  Then using data syncing across them if you need the data to be the same everywhere.  Using something like SyncPro Server.

Otherwise no matter where you put the server, the remote parts will have poor performance unless you design your solution to the extreme for WAN performance.