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[VPS] The Hong Kong skyrocketing price
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[VPS] The Hong Kong skyrocketing price

lifehomelifehome Member
edited October 2014 in Providers

I am a native HongKonger, and we in Hong Kong do know that things of IT could go pricy, like the iPhone 6 flipping happened weeks before.

So here is some example for a "quite decent" VPS pricing table for reference:

512MB Plan (~US$108/yr)
* vCPU: 1
* HDD: 30GB SAN
* 1x IPv4
* Unmetered 10Mbps Port
2GB Plan (~US$22.95/mo)
* vCPU: 2
* HDD/SSD: 80GB SAN / 30GB SSD
* 1x IPv4
* Unmetered 30Mbps Port

Please have some feedback on this, as I do really want to know if things goes pricy in Hong Kong, or it is just only some of the company makes it pricy?


Per your requests, here is a few website providing VPS services in Hong Kong with English pages:

PacHosting is the parent company of Ximbo Internet Limited, you could trace this out by traceroute and dig up their WHOIS/DNS records.

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HostVirtual (Parent network of EDIS.at in Hong Kong, has been cut off the low-edge plans): http://www.hostvirtual.com/datacenters/hong-kong-vps

Comments

  • Did you mean to write 108 for the first offer or should it be 10.8? If not, then yes, that would be pricey. The second offer is still not extremely cheap but wouldnt be that unusual either.

  • perennateperennate Member, Host Rep

    alessio said: Did you mean to write 108 for the first offer or should it be 10.8? If not, then yes, that would be pricey. The second offer is still not extremely cheap but wouldnt be that unusual either.

    It's per year.

  • What's the bandwidth to mainland?

  • @perennate said:
    It's per year.

    This changes things a bit.

  • deployvmdeployvm Member, Host Rep
    edited October 2014

    Price is a bit on the high end but similar to Azure services in HK. OP, could you provide information on what provider this is?

  • Is it shared port or dedicated? direct connect to mainland or bypass?
    If dedicated and direct, not pricy at all.

  • smansman Member
    edited October 2014

    Bandwidth is expensive in Asia. Most of the traffic comes and goes via underwater cable.

    It's slowly getting better as they lay more and more cable.

    Probably other factors at play as well. Power is more expensive. Hardware is more expensive.

  • lifehomelifehome Member
    edited October 2014

    @Sakura said:
    What's the bandwidth to mainland?

    Ximbo has HKD$20/mo extra fee for guaranteed "up to" 1Mbps port to China, so do PacHosting, as they are the same company.

    @deployvm said:
    Price is a bit on the high end but similar to Azure services in HK. OP, could you provide

    information on what provider this is?

    Already edited the post for more information and references.

    @hiphiphip0 said:
    Is it shared port or dedicated? direct connect to mainland or bypass?
    If dedicated and direct, not pricy at all.

    I've using their 8GB plans for months years ago, it's quite "dedicated" to me, as I could use up to 1.x MBps (100Mbps port).

    @sman said:
    Bandwidth is expensive in Asia. Most of the traffic comes and goes via underwater cable.

    It's slowly getting better as they lay more and more cable.

    Probably other factors at play as well. Power is more expensive. Hardware is more expensive.

    Fact in Hong Kong, is that we're like the Long Island and area besides it, we got one mainstream electric company on the "Kowloon" (Main island), and one more for the "Hong Kong Island" (area outside of the main island, and also the outlaying islands).

    Our Government is "trying" to put two streams into one for datacenters. Ya know, "trying"...

    Thanked by 1hiphiphip0
  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran

    If you do not need (and/or don't get anyway) a direct China link, you might as well use a Singapore VPS, with massively lower prices and better bandwidth conditions.

  • lifehomelifehome Member
    edited October 2014

    @rm_ said:
    If you do not need (and/or don't get anyway) a direct China link, you might as well use a Singapore VPS, with massively lower prices and better bandwidth conditions.

    Actually right on the contrary, that Singapore-HongKong connection is the worst in the world. We always get congestion among days and weeks, and still it's a pain to use them. Like DigitalOcean and Vultr, and others are simply just high ping and latency, our users and clients are totally not happy with that location at all.

  • if it is a truly dedicated 10mbit port it does look like a very tempting plan.

  • belinik said: if it is a truly dedicated?

    Who gives you dedicated line with VPS?

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