Should I use a host in the UK?
byoung2: Regardless of where your site is hosted, you should be taking advantage of a CDN to serve static files.  For popular Javascript libraries like jQuery, use Google's CDN and your users might already have it cached if they've visited another site that uses the same library.  For your own images (and maybe Javascript and CSS), host them on Amazon S3/Cloudfront, Rackspace Cloud Files, etc., so that users fetch these from edge servers near them.If you visit any one of my sites from the UK, you would get the HTML from Dallas/Ft. Worth, but the images, CSS, and Javascript would come from a Limelight (Rackspace Cloud Files CDN) edge server in the UK.If your site focuses specifically on the UK, you could eliminate all those calls to the server in Texas, but it wouldn't make that much of a difference.