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[Projectpaperclip]

I need a web host that is really inside of thailand that supports ssh, cron, and php. Please reply or IM me any suggestions. many thanks!

[PaulBax]

why do you have to be inside Thailand? Silly prices and terrible service!

[matt111]

Probably because his audience is Thai, she/he takes their business seriously, and understands that under most condition the onward connections (transit commits and peering) the major players use are often oversubscribed (too much data for the pipe) and thus often subject to high latency, packet loss, and terrible speeds. Also traffic shaping and throttling equipement used by the ISPs in my experience does not seem to apply to traffic within Thailand. Of course, there will always be someone with a speedtest screenshot of their 3BB premier or CAT business that rebutes this claims and uses some budget cpanel US based host, each to their own. In a nutshell, a faster, more consistently loading site has in many instance converted to more sales (amazon.com say they lose several million dollars for every additional 100ms of page load time)

Ideally if Thai originated traffic is significant amount of your hits along with international, you'll host in two locations, with geographical DNS directing visitors to most appriorate IP. This much easier than it sounds even with a  wordpress or joomla install you designate one as a slave and push writes to master for replication.

Edited by matt111, 2012-03-23 23:55:18.

[oilinki]

I'm currently using Amazon EC2 Singapore for my hosting. Seems to be pretty ok at least with my CAT CDMA connection. (way better than Godaddy VPS, which I used earlier).

Then again, CAT seems to have pretty good connections outside of Thailand, even if the connection is via mobile modem.

I would put that as one of the best providers for visitors inside Thailand and outside Thailand.

Then again, I would also like to know if there is any big hosting players in Thailand, which have their own bitpipes to outside? Or some way that the content is served fast both inside and outside of Thailand. Google has it's own, but the sites.google.com is pretty simple. I'd rather keep using Drupal as CMS.

Out of the curiosity. Does for example site http://aopor.com/ load fast or slow with different providers in Thailand? That's a site hosted at Amazon EC2 in Singapore cloud.

[manarak]

Hosting in Singapore will be ok for access from Thailand, because the big Thai providers all have more than redundant backbone connectivity to SIN.

And SIN's connectivity is good and will get even better in future:
http://www.brightsid...7tbps-link.aspx

[matt111]

AWS Singapore via their  transit providers (or perhaps they were peering directly, cant be bothered checking the AS) have connections into thai peering exchanges, thus access to an EC2 in SG is always fast for me if the connection is stable, sucha as your website aopor loads instantly

Edited by matt111, 2012-03-25 11:40:26.

[Crushdepth]

You can get a free trial virtual machine from Amazon ec2 at the moment, for one year. Its a micro instance but more than enough to run an average site from. Comes with SSH access. You can choose where you want it hosted and one of the options is Singapore.