Any personal recommendation for Singapore VPS?

PHP_Backend · January 2020

Some background: Till now all my serious projects are hosted on several US & EU providers. I am happy with them but recently I am getting more & more "Asia targeted" projects that would definitely benefit from Singapore server. But I am total noob at singapore region. Is there any LESbian who is running singapore VPS for considerable time willing to lend me some recommendation?

Desired Config:
No cloud please (I am poor skilled with all the cloud thing)
Fewer cpu core but higher frequency (3Ghz+)
at least SSD
at least 500 Mb port speed, 1TB bandwidth
No hard limit on Ram
Price: low end range

My little Research info:
MrVM NAT: played with it and loved it. but as the price range suggests, it won't be wise to put any serious project on it. Network routing is sometime funny and transfer speed is slow on some network to other country. Great for personal use.
ExtraVM: uum… I know Asian bandwidth is expensive but ExtraVM singapore VPS looks even expensive to me. Only 250 GB bandwidth for 3.50$ is bit no-go for me. Ram is low too. maybe you can convince me to try it by sharing your experience.
RansomIT: Not quite lowend
Google search returns lots of providers but I want to listen to personal experiences from my Lowend folks.

TheDP · January 2020

Why not just go for OVH VPS?

PHP_Backend · January 2020

@thedp said:
Why not just go for OVH VPS?

Because, one of my friend tried it and he didn't like it. and Cloud is confusing term to me, so I tend to stay away from any providers that say they are providing cloud solution.

TheDP · January 2020

@PHP_Backend said:

@thedp said:
Why not just go for OVH VPS?

Because, one of my friend tried it and he didn't like it. and Cloud is confusing term to me, so I tend to stay away from any providers that say they are providing cloud solution.

OVH VPS and OVH Public Cloud are 2 different products.

PHP_Backend · January 2020

As I already said, Its very confusing to me and I acknowledge my ignorance.
Can you provide me a link, please?

TheDP · January 2020

@PHP_Backend said:
As I already said, Its very confusing to me and I acknowledge my ignorance.
Can you provide me a link, please?

https://www.ovh.com/asia/vps/vps-ssd.xml

cybertech · January 2020

Leaseweb SG (look out for their discounts), vps works, bandwidth is good, control panel is bad
Vultr SG / JP / AU - suits your high frequency requirement
Upcloud SG - iirc they use pretty good CPU and tout 100% uptime

Dont know about OVH but heard their IOPS are on the low side.

Don't worry about "cloud". Just deploy and pay with confidence.

TheDP · January 2020

@cybertech said:
Leaseweb SG (look out for their discounts), vps works, bandwidth is good, control panel is bad
Vultr SG / JP / AU - suits your high frequency requirement
Upcloud SG - iirc they use pretty good CPU and tout 100% uptime

Dont know about OVH but heard their IOPS are on the low side.

Yeah these ones are recommended as well.

vyas · January 2020

All of the below I have used /am using at some stage or another. Except Digital Ocean and AWS- all of them outside of SGP though.

@MikeA had some ExtraVM plan around $5 USD. I think a few months ago at the other forum someone had signed up. Maybe he still has a plan or two around?
Edit: it was for a much lower bandwidth. I think $3.5/month for 250 GB...

@HostDoc has some SGP plans- but most of them are HDD.
Update: some offers look good from the flash offers site...some are hybrids..

https://hostdochost.i.ng/pricing/#1561318122951-ef5991cd-9d52

Digital Ocean or AWS lightsail are other good options. No mention of cloud in either :-) $5 or $10/ month range I think.

Finally,

Do take a look at FlowVPS @Brendan The BF offer ~~was~~ Is a beast, even at AU 15/month you get a good set of specs.. 1.5 TB BW, 4Vclu, NVMe+ SSD.. From my review/ BM tests, https://underworldstartup.com/flowvps-black-friday-2019-offer/

posting my Speedtest results for SE Asia region from Melbourne:

Thailand, Bangkok (CAT Telecom) 169.29 Mbit/s 289.09 Mbit/s 108.863 ms
Cambodia, Phnom Penh (Smart) 112.71 Mbit/s 271.86 Mbit/s 118.726 ms
Vietnam, Hanoi (Viettel) 129.97 Mbit/s 313.14 Mbit/s 153.754 ms
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (Extreme) 137.29 Mbit/s 362.05 Mbit/s 88.239 ms
Singapore (PT FirstMedia) 164.22 Mbit/s 162.40 Mbit/s 82.628 ms
Indonesia, Jakarta (Desnet) 181.82 Mbit/s 337.71 Mbit/s 94.540 ms
Philippines, Manila (Sky Fiber) 148.00 Mbit/s 317.37 Mbit/s 178.588 ms
Hong Kong (GTT) 145.97 Mbit/s 356.25 Mbit/s 117.916 ms
Taiwan, Taipei (TAIFO) 17.58 Mbit/s 15.21 Mbit/s 238.441 ms
Japan, Tsukuba (SoftEther) 66.08 Mbit/s 103.86 Mbit/s 222.706 ms

P.S no personal experience but @IndoVirtue is another option to look at... they had a OVZ offer for New Years- I think it was till the 5th. $24/ yr around the specs you are looking at.

poisson · January 2020

Asia is a loss leader for many providers due to expensive bandwidth. Normally the bigger boys can tank the losses better.

I have deployed Upcloud for production and I can recommend them with no hesitation. Hardware was very smooth and good bandwidth. It pretty much works like a normal VPS: select your desired specs, key in some information, and the VPS will be created with the IP address given on the spot. SSH in and do everything like a normal VPS. If you are unsure, I can give you some credits via my referral code and you can test run it to see if it suits your needed.

dahartigan · January 2020

I think @HostDoc would provide the best bang for buck if you need a SGP location, you can find the latest flash sales here https://hostdochost.i.ng/pricing/

TigersWay · January 2020

Working from Thailand, I do have a little experience with SG, closest professional location...

MrVM: the best fun one, but you are right not 100% efficient,
OVH: network getting better, but you are always on your own, never expect anything from them,
UpCloud: the best one in SG today for "small" setup, and as good as any other ones,
GreencloudVPS: my last surprising discovery, worth checking.

I found anything else is either more expensive than it should be, or clearly not stable.
All these of course are based only on my personal tests.

raman2020 · January 2020

You could look at linode or vultr for SGP region, if that works for you. They are cloud providers, though.

sonic · January 2020

Linode or Hostdoc.

PHP_Backend · January 2020

@vyas said:
AWS lightsail are other good options.

Thank You very much for introducing me to lightsail. Definitely gonna try it very soon. AWS price calculation is math exam to me.

Do take a look at FlowVPS

looking at regular offer, I feel ram could be more. And I am looking for higher frequency CPU.

IndoVirtue is another option to look at...

Their package plan looks cryptic to me. Why $5 VPS has more ram+bw in "Budget KVM" section and $10 VPS has lower ram+bw, Whats the catch?
Not really interested in OpenVZ.

PHP_Backend · January 2020

@poisson said:
Asia is a loss leader for many providers due to expensive bandwidth.

If you are unsure, I can give you some credits via my referral code and you can test run it to see if it suits your needed.

It would be foolish to let down such offer. Please guide me through the process.

PHP_Backend · January 2020

@TigersWay said:

GreencloudVPS: my last surprising discovery, worth checking.

Price plan looks really interesting to me. Can you post any benchmark output, please?
Really grateful for your recommendations.

seriesn · January 2020

There is always digital ocean

vyas · January 2020

@seriesn said:
There is always digital ocean

Do you do reverse switch? I can move out of Nexusbytes and switch to DO...what say ? :-)

seriesn · January 2020

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:
There is always digital ocean

Do you do reverse switch? I can move out of Nexusbytes and switch to DO...

@vyas , is this why we worked so hard building this relationship, put in that much effort? Is this why? Just to end it like this? You are just like everyone else. You never loved me for who I was :*(

PHP_Backend · January 2020

@seriesn said:
@vyas , is this why we worked so hard building this relationship, put in that much effort? Is this why? Just to end it like this? You are just like everyone else. You never loved me for who I was :*(

vyas · January 2020

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:
There is always digital ocean

Do you do reverse switch? I can move out of Nexusbytes and switch to DO...

@vyas , is this why we worked so hard building this relationship, put in that much effort? Is this why? Just to end it like this? You are just like everyone else. You never loved me for who I was :*(

Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

seriesn · January 2020

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:
There is always digital ocean

Do you do reverse switch? I can move out of Nexusbytes and switch to DO...

@vyas , is this why we worked so hard building this relationship, put in that much effort? Is this why? Just to end it like this? You are just like everyone else. You never loved me for who I was :*(

Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

But will you ever receive a direct response from their CEO in this forum? ❤ Granted I am just a small fish in the ocean though lol.

mfs · January 2020

@cybertech said:

Leaseweb SG (look out for their discounts), vps works, bandwidth is good, control panel is bad

they recently revamped their control panel; not that I use it a lot and it's not something I'd weight in when going shopping. Their ticket support was awful last time I needed it (~9 months ago) but maybe things have improved.
I have one serving as Asian PoP for services running on Hetzner and another one actually servicing as vmess+CDN VPN for a relative currently in Shanghai, and offering few ancillary services too. They're both working pretty well.
Their default stock prices (w/o promos/discounts) are too high anyway

PHP_Backend · January 2020

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:
Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

But will you ever receive a direct response from their CEO in this forum?

That and receiving help from CEO himself regarding payment issue........ that you don't see everyday.
Hats off to @seriesn

MikeA · January 2020

@vyas said:
@MikeA had some ExtraVM plan around $5 USD. I think a few months ago at the other forum someone had signed up. Maybe he still has a plan or two around?
Edit: it was for a much lower bandwidth. I think $3.5/month for 250 GB...

I will give reset monthly bandwidth for free if requested as long as the system isn't near the quota for the month, and most are under 25% all the time, so it's usually fine.

vyas · January 2020

@MikeA said:

I will give reset monthly bandwidth for free if requested as long as the system isn't near the quota for the month, and most are under 25% all the time, so it's usually fine.

That is very considerate. Will keep this in mind when I am looking for a service in SGP. Should not cross this limit for most months in my case for the project I have in mind for later .

vyas · January 2020

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:

Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

But will you ever receive a direct response from their CEO in this forum? ❤ Granted I am just a small fish in the ocean though lol.

You know, there is a lot of inherent value in getting a direct response from the CEO (s). At some point in time that should become a premium service/feature.

MikeA · January 2020

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:

Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

But will you ever receive a direct response from their CEO in this forum? ❤ Granted I am just a small fish in the ocean though lol.

You know, there is a lot of inherent value in getting a direct response from the CEO (s). At some point in time that should become a premium service/feature.

We are all just people sitting in our bedrooms

Edit: or basements if you run that type of company.

seriesn · January 2020

@MikeA said:

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:

Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

But will you ever receive a direct response from their CEO in this forum? ❤ Granted I am just a small fish in the ocean though lol.

You know, there is a lot of inherent value in getting a direct response from the CEO (s). At some point in time that should become a premium service/feature.

We are all just people sitting in our bedrooms

Edit: or basements if you run that type of company.

My man! Do you know how expensive basement is on this part of states? Corner of the bedroom is where the office AT!!

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:

Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

But will you ever receive a direct response from their CEO in this forum? ❤ Granted I am just a small fish in the ocean though lol.

You know, there is a lot of inherent value in getting a direct response from the CEO (s). At some point in time that should become a premium service/feature.

I just need to develop multiple personalities. CEO, CFO, CTO etc. Need more titlezzzz yo!

WSS · January 2020

@vyas said:

@seriesn said:

@vyas said:

Why? Why?? Oh Why???
:-) DO do have good tutorials, I will wait for a switch till Nexusbytes reaches their size. How about that?

But will you ever receive a direct response from their CEO in this forum? ❤ Granted I am just a small fish in the ocean though lol.

You know, there is a lot of inherent value in getting a direct response from the CEO (s). At some point in time that should become a premium service/feature.

I just need to develop multiple personalities. CEO, CFO, CTO etc. Need more titlezzzz yo!

You're already @nseries

Just don't try to sell cars, because you're already NoKIA.

(I'll be here all week, folks.)

Any personal recommendation for Singapore VPS?

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