Korea VPS with a direct route to China

iopq · July 2025

I'm currently using AWS Lightsail, but the route is through NTT so there's 17 hops from China and ~90 ms latency

I'd like something with a similar cost of $5 a month, but with good routing to China Unicom. I guess it could still route through Japan, but fewer hops and lower latency. For me the latency is the primary concern.

Levi · July 2025

Hm, if aws can’t or won’t do it, do you think mere mortals can?

Neoon · July 2025

@Levi said:
Hm, if aws can’t or won’t do it, do you think mere mortals can?

aws does not always have the best routing.
Some providers for example in Frankfurt have better routing.

sanvit · July 2025

South Korean local ISPs does seem to have better routing to China. However, you will have a hard time purchasing one without a South Korean issued payment method.

aluy · July 2025

@iopq said:
I'm currently using AWS Lightsail, but the route is through NTT so there's 17 hops from China and ~90 ms latency

I'd like something with a similar cost of $5 a month, but with good routing to China Unicom. I guess it could still route through Japan, but fewer hops and lower latency. For me the latency is the primary concern.

https://www.kdatacenter.com/korea-ssd-vps

Motion3549 · July 2025

@aluy said:

@iopq said:
I'm currently using AWS Lightsail, but the route is through NTT so there's 17 hops from China and ~90 ms latency

I'd like something with a similar cost of $5 a month, but with good routing to China Unicom. I guess it could still route through Japan, but fewer hops and lower latency. For me the latency is the primary concern.

https://www.kdatacenter.com/korea-ssd-vps

Why Korea is really expensive. Any technical reason

SiRin · July 2025

we believe we can help with that
We’re a Korea-based company providing VPS, IP Transit, and IDC services for over 3 years Feel free to drop me a DM if you're interested

satorik · July 2025

@Motion3549 said:

@aluy said:

@iopq said:
I'm currently using AWS Lightsail, but the route is through NTT so there's 17 hops from China and ~90 ms latency

I'd like something with a similar cost of $5 a month, but with good routing to China Unicom. I guess it could still route through Japan, but fewer hops and lower latency. For me the latency is the primary concern.

https://www.kdatacenter.com/korea-ssd-vps

Why Korea is really expensive. Any technical reason

Monopoly.

South Korea is perhaps the only country in the world where bandwidth costs are going up. This may be driven by new regulations from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, which mandate the commercial terms of domestic interconnection, based on predetermined “Tiers” of participating networks. This is contrary to the model in most parts of the world, where networks self-regulate, and often peer without settlement. The government even prescribes the rate at which prices should decrease per year (-7.5%), which is significantly slower than the annual drop in unit bandwidth costs elsewhere in the world. We are only able to peer 2% of our traffic in South Korea.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world/#asia

Motion3549 · July 2025

@satorik said:

@Motion3549 said:

@aluy said:

@iopq said:
I'm currently using AWS Lightsail, but the route is through NTT so there's 17 hops from China and ~90 ms latency

I'd like something with a similar cost of $5 a month, but with good routing to China Unicom. I guess it could still route through Japan, but fewer hops and lower latency. For me the latency is the primary concern.

https://www.kdatacenter.com/korea-ssd-vps

Why Korea is really expensive. Any technical reason

Monopoly.

South Korea is perhaps the only country in the world where bandwidth costs are going up. This may be driven by new regulations from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, which mandate the commercial terms of domestic interconnection, based on predetermined “Tiers” of participating networks. This is contrary to the model in most parts of the world, where networks self-regulate, and often peer without settlement. The government even prescribes the rate at which prices should decrease per year (-7.5%), which is significantly slower than the annual drop in unit bandwidth costs elsewhere in the world. We are only able to peer 2% of our traffic in South Korea.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world/#asia

even the king of bw cloudflare cannot handle korea. prepare for the battle.

Rubben · July 2025

Akile probably has that

aluy · July 2025

https://akile.io/shop/server?areaId=8

https://app.vmiss.com/store/kr-seoul-bgp

iopq · July 2025

@aluy said:

@iopq said:
I'm currently using AWS Lightsail, but the route is through NTT so there's 17 hops from China and ~90 ms latency

I'd like something with a similar cost of $5 a month, but with good routing to China Unicom. I guess it could still route through Japan, but fewer hops and lower latency. For me the latency is the primary concern.

https://www.kdatacenter.com/korea-ssd-vps

That's a bit more than AWS

nekomikoreimu · July 2025

Cafe24 (SKBroadband Backbone)
https://hosting.cafe24.com/?controller=new_product_page&page=virtual
Dotname Korea (LG U+ Backbone)
https://www.dotname.co.kr/idc/private/product

Dyingcat · July 2025

@satorik said:

@Motion3549 said:

@aluy said:

@iopq said:
I'm currently using AWS Lightsail, but the route is through NTT so there's 17 hops from China and ~90 ms latency

I'd like something with a similar cost of $5 a month, but with good routing to China Unicom. I guess it could still route through Japan, but fewer hops and lower latency. For me the latency is the primary concern.

https://www.kdatacenter.com/korea-ssd-vps

Why Korea is really expensive. Any technical reason

Monopoly.

South Korea is perhaps the only country in the world where bandwidth costs are going up. This may be driven by new regulations from the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, which mandate the commercial terms of domestic interconnection, based on predetermined “Tiers” of participating networks. This is contrary to the model in most parts of the world, where networks self-regulate, and often peer without settlement. The government even prescribes the rate at which prices should decrease per year (-7.5%), which is significantly slower than the annual drop in unit bandwidth costs elsewhere in the world. We are only able to peer 2% of our traffic in South Korea.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world/#asia

China Mainland may be the most expensive bandwidth.

I see many websites hosted there have just 1mbps or 3mbps.

nekomikoreimu · July 2025

@nekomikoreimu said:
Cafe24 (SKBroadband Backbone)
https://hosting.cafe24.com/?controller=new_product_page&page=virtual
Dotname Korea (LG U+ Backbone)
https://www.dotname.co.kr/idc/private/product

Neither of them is directly connected, but when I checked, Dotname Korea seemed to have good ping.
https://globalping.io?measurement=WomSl5sIx8zqCChN

andremx20 · July 2025

I have some customers on china mainland and i use softbank provider with 40 or less (20) ping fron japan

orangevps · July 2025

Hi,

Currently we don't have Korea location, but we have Hong Kong with a little bit good bandwidth upto 1Gbps to China Mainland.

Looking Glass: https://hk-lg.orangevps.com/
IP: 202.155.141.19

DediRock · July 2025

price being the challenge here, but quick research HostDare in LA 12 hops.

miHoYo · July 2025

in sk, aws lightsail is cheapest

iopq · November 2025

@nekomikoreimu said:
Cafe24 (SKBroadband Backbone)
https://hosting.cafe24.com/?controller=new_rjQAH@8shrs6S]%product_page&page=virtual
Dotname Korea (LG U+ Backbone)
https://www.dotname.co.kr/idc/private/product

I tried to sign up for dotname, but it bugs out when logging in, just really unpleasant to use website

I can't even sign up for cafe 24 without a Korean phone number, even though I'm using the foreigner page (also you can't use special characters in your password, wtf?)

@Rubben said:
Akile probably has that

they want $20 a month for it

privateer · November 2025

One of the popular providers here is going to start offering servers in Korea. Just saw the news on their discord.

alexanderras · December 2025

@privateer said:
One of the popular providers here is going to start offering servers in Korea. Just saw the news on their discord.

Who?

mans_xd · December 2025

@alexanderras said:

@privateer said:
One of the popular providers here is going to start offering servers in Korea. Just saw the news on their discord.

Who?

maybe he mean @hosthatch

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