What is your preferred data center for US dedicated servers?

[rad]

I am just wondering from personal curiosity which data center (or at least which city) do you prefer to use for hosting dedicated servers and colocation?

 

[EqServers]

Data centers location can increase your servers performance. Thinking that, we have setup our servers in 3 cities of United States. Which include -

Manassas,
San Francisco
and
Dallas

 

[zomgmike]

Los Angeles, Denver, and Chicago are my preferred locations.

- Los Angeles: great for transpacific connectivity. As the world population skews towards Asia, it's good to pick a location that works for both the population and where I'm from (USA.)
- Denver: It's nice to not have to worry about natural disaster. If you're somewhere like LA or Miami, there's always the possibility of an earthquake or a hurricane respectively.
- Chicago: Centrally located in the US, it is the best (in my opinion) at servicing the US. It's reasonably close to NYC (latency-wise) while not over-committing to the east coast.

So depending on the project, those are the first 3 I look at.