I second IVYtony. You need to have the server(s) close to your customers. One of the reasons why Google didn't beat baidu, was because baidu have servers in China. Now that google has servers in China too, but it is a little less, a little late.
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one of the reasons why eBay China failed was the decision of where to set up the server stupid decision made by stupid CTO(s) of eBay who guarranted to us that there would no issues of site stability and speed to set up server in U.S for eBay China! Fuck those guys