Does Hosting Location Effect SEO

If your main audience is UK based consumers then it si preferrable to have your website hosted in the UK? However, many UK based resellers for US based hosting packages, don't even tell you that their server is US based, unless you specifically ask - so be careful. This blog from cre8asite suggests that if you want to come up for country specific searches you have to either host your site with a host based in that country or acquire a top level domain (TLD) from that country. I would suggest preferrably both. Also personally if I looking for UK specific information I feel more comfortable using the .co.uk.