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Asian locations lacking providers?
I'm thinking of opening a VPS location in Asia.
Which Asian locations are currently underserved?
We'd offer our standard package (with CPU probably upgraded soon to 2 x vCPU in all our locations):
2 GB RAM
20 GB SSD RAID Storage (probably upgraded to NVMe)
1 TB Monthly Traffic
1 vCPU Core
$5 / month
(or p $0.0075 / hour)
Comments
Chennai, India
Kolkata, India
Myanmar, Bhutan, Cambodia, Mongolia & Thailand
I still hope you choose Singapore since you provide good service and very good support, so it does not matter if there are a lot competition. With your 2GB RAM @ $5 there's not much competition. Then HongKong or Japan.
Underserved?
In no particular order:
Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia
Every hipster host got either Singapore, something in Australia likely Sydney or Tokyo.
Take a look at India and other Countries.
I think middle east, particularly UAE and adjoining areas. AWS has Bahrain location but nothing in UAE (heard they are coming up). Saudi is a gold mine for next 5 years if you can tap the market early.
I'd go with Thailand. It's a third world country, but it has somewhat of the infrastructure required & the upper class could afford your services. Plus, it could cover the surrounding area.
Turkmenistan or Nepal please.
I'm double my usual budget for these locations, if they have good latency to nearby regions.
I personally would find yet another provider opening a Singapore location a bit boring and would prefer Indonesia (or China if that were reasonably feasible). My second vote would be for India. Other more exotic locations like e.g. Nepal are certainly theoretically interesting but as a provider you must look at fiber availability and capacity, colo, and market size. I also find India interesting because the way I see it there's basically (almost) a big black hole between (eastern) Europe and Singapore. But I don't know whether the market in India and say 30 or 40 ms around it is sufficient for a new location.
Jakarta, Indonesia
There is a reason a lot of these are undeserved. The regulatory barriers in place for international companies (even local but a bit easier) to setup hosting services is very very high.
Yes, and I have no reasons to disagree with you either.
Good to see you around and checking in though 😁
1) Indonesia
2) Thailand
3) India
12USD/Yearly
12 replies and not one joke about Pyongyang yet.
stop it, get some help
With this setup, Singapore will still very attractive.
Vietnam has limited bandwidth for IPv4 exports, but IPv6 is free.
I wouldn't mind seeing more of Singapore. Other locations in Asia might be difficult unless you have local partners or contacts.
Hong Kong, South Korea 10gbps
Taiwan.
India, atleast with ipv6 only 🥺
Beijing, West Taiwan.
Most sought after places
* Japan (Connect to either of these three: IIJ/KDDI/SoftBank. Works wonders!)
* Singapore
* South Korea
Recommended places
* India
* Phillipines
* Indonesia
* New Zealand
* Taiwan
* Far East region of Russia (like Siberia, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin, etc.)
Think before you leap
* Australia (Assessment and Access Bill, nicknamed ASS Access)
* Hong Kong, despite its position and its status as a global network exchange, due to their NSL and for the sake of your customers.
Do not host in
* North Korea (not a joke, some very exotic providers host some of their services in North Korea...)
* Myanmar (political instability)
Iran
India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Laos, Srilanka, Cambodia, South Korea.
Assistance and Access. Australian Federal Police are on a constant anti-pedophile mission. Not the worst law in the world IMO.
Use Australian servers for legal things only.
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/national-security/lawful-access-telecommunications/myths-assistance-access-act
Korea
Hong kong
Maybe.. Malaysia