: The round trip time from India to USA is approx 250ms, so you need to consider the number of HTTP requests each page of your website makes, as this could increase the page load time dramatically.

@Murray432

The round trip time from India to USA is approx 250ms, so you need to consider the number of HTTP requests each page of your website makes, as this could increase the page load time dramatically. You also need to take into account the client (desktop, 3g or 4g mobile) and link speed, developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/mobile suggests a number of factors you need to take account for mobile clients to remain sub 1 second page load for above the fold content which I believe is a ranking factor.
webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html also advises that page loading speed is a ranking factor, so you really should do anything to get it as low as possible.

Personally I'd want my customers to have the best experience, so I'd keep it physically as close as possible (there is a reason CDN's exist). AWS have CloudFront available in India now, and will have a AWS region there soon, I'd migrate to AWS in another region but using CloudFront in India, and then migrate the servers when the India region is up. Probably won't be the cheapest option, but it will be better.

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