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Why do most users prefer Singapore instead of India or Malaysia?
We have three suppliers in Singapore and none of them meet our standards, so we stopped offering services at that location.
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India was too far from SEA, also no merchant selling malaysia chicken box for 7$/year, perhaps you could do it first?
SG is much of a greater network hub to my knowledge, while India and Malaysia are good consumers at least. So I guess if your content is mostly targeted to their demography you could host there? 🤷♂️
I'm curious why these providers didn't meet your standard...
I can't speak for most users but only for myself. The way I see it as a European, Singapore, just like Malaysia is kind of smack in the middle and an excellent location from which to reach pretty much all of southern Asia as well as Oceania. And I guess Singapore is preferred by many due to its location and excellent connectivity. Personally I'd probably actually prefer Malaysia but (a) so far it seems to be less connected than Singapore and (b) less known or preferred by providers.
Relatively close to everything.
Some level of Anti-ddos available from multiple providers
Well established laws compatible with hosting.
Location sounds premium since its expensive place to live in.
Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan would work just fine as well.
Most users prefer Singapore VPS over India or Malaysia because it offers better infrastructure, faster global connectivity, stronger security, higher uptime, more top-tier hosting providers, and optimal routing to Asia-Pacific and global regions
without doing too detailed research i would look at a few points:
Cause I get between 3 to 8ms pings to SG servers... specially the Singapore homelab server in the next room
That and if you look at the https://www.submarinecablemap.com/ you'll see all the major cable connections stopping by Singapore for the whole of AP network. No weird politics, no power outages, high speed internet (residential networks are now between 2.5G at the low end, 10G at high end) so whats not to love?1?
Because Singapore has a better network.
If Singapore doesn't meet your standards, then I think it's even more useless to look for India and Malaysia.
Singapore is great for a lot of reasons like mentioned already by others but, @advinservers Johor Bahru isn't too bad either.
Just add 2ms to the latency. As Singapore as one can get but cheaper pricing from what I understand. I hope more providers can colocate in Johor Bahru.
Better connectivity (especially to both Asian and South Pacific nations), consistent legislation and less corruption
Risk being scammed is higher in India than SG.
I prefer Malaysia over India, particularly for reasons related to data protection and security. However, this assessment is based on a European perspective and is therefore not universally representative.
By the way: Oh dear – I somehow feared this would happen. Now the location shutdowns are starting. I wonder which one will be next.
Singapore is closer to the center of Asia than India and Malaysia, which is good for latency.
If you look at https://www.submarinecablemap.com/, you can see that almost all cables from Europe, East Asia, and Northeast Asia land in Singapore.
look into indian laws regarding hosting and VPN's
Who were your providers at Singapore ? Definitely not good ones !
Malaysia has excellent mail delivery. But servers are so expensive.
Hello @agxl,
We haven't closed any locations. The servers currently located in Singapore will continue to operate; we just won't be accepting new orders at that location.
yeah I'm sort of surprised, there's so many good providers in Singapore assuming you're not going for the absolute bottom of the barrel like Contabo or whatever. I'd love to know who the 3 providers were.
Calling Contabo bottom of the barrel is too generous. More like bottom of the sea.