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for starters pick openvz, look for european location, closer=faster.
for starters i would recommend u jumping on the 5 euro/year 128mb deal.
Look out for http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/183/6.58-cheap-asia-based-vps-from-mountspot-openvz-512-mb-tier4-dc since India is actually pretty close to Philippines.
thanks for the help kristal and bolt, i got VPS in LA and Germany but i still cant get the speed and latency that i want. maybe ill try the one from India.
Isn't there a provider based in the Philippines that you could use?
Yeah, there are, but VPS in Asia are considerably expensive.
there is http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/nocser-6-128mb-openvz-vps-in-malaysia/
and there is some info here:
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/nocser-6-128mb-openvz-vps-in-malaysia/#comment-8769
but still they are not very cheap
@drmike bolt is right, providers here are way expensive..
@komo thanks for the suggestions..
@botsman28, make sure you do a traceroute to the test IP. It's not uncommon to see packets get routed to US between two Asian countries.
@komo That was 2010 lol
US west coast seems - as for a lot of us - your best choice.
yes most of the vps providers in Asia are very costly..
@eLohkCalb yes, i'll keep that in mind..
Providers in West coast in the US probably meets your requirements, and if you are looking for closer, try searching for "Malaysia" & "Singapore" as well as "Indonesia" in WHT and LEB, since there where few budget VPS offers. And as eLohkCalb mentioned, try pinging time to their test IP.
@Go59954 thanks for your suggestion..
Have you looked for VPS in Australia yet?
not yet, are there cheap VPS in Australia?
My suggestion is if you're not living in a country like China, find a local provider for the best local connectivity. Connectivity between continents may not always be perfect.
I'm in the Philippines (using PLDT), and European locations are usually the worst as they almost always get routed through the U.S. first.
The best would be a California location. Even some Asian locations get routed to California first and then back to Asia.
You could check out Lightwave.net or if you're on a tight budget BuyVM.net. They're located in San Jose, CA and I use them both. I strongly prefer Xen (which Lightwave uses), but that's just my thing.
Traceroute from Philippines to Lightwave (~170ms)
Traceroute from Philippines to BuyVM (~170ms)
thanks for the info david.. maybe i should try this.. are Xen faster than OpenVZ?
It's not necessarily faster. It's more about the memory management and the way memory is accounted for. Xen behaves more like a dedicated server regarding memory. I can run more on a Xen VPS with less memory than OpenVZ. I'd rather have a 512MB Xen VPS than a 4GB OpenVZ VPS.
Actually its the other way around. Xen memory behaves like a real server, so if you hit the swap it slows down. With OpenVZ all your memory has the same speed. However, Xen is due to this fact more predictable when it comes to memory allocation.
That is the point, I can run more in a Xen than in an OpenVZ too.
How does that make sense? With Xen you always have the OS overhead that eats up memory of your container. With OpenVZ not. So with the latter you can even go further your vmguarpages but only with luck, but you can. Xen would either swap and slow down or simply let the program die.
My typical nginx, php and mysql setup uses ~120mb ram on OpenVZ and less than 64mb ram on KVM/Xen/etc.
Right, because of the allocation. I doubt that that is the real usage. With OpenVZ this allocation in memory has the same speed through the whole allocation. With Xen the usage memory might increase up to the swap and the speed suddenly slows down. So you have different speeds in your memory used. As soon as the swap gets used the load goes up. This does not happen in OpenVZ.
But allocation matter in OpenVZ, not real memory, that is why OpenVZ SUCKS. How much overhead can take the OS? Less than 20MB in my experience. Also, I can disable swap, period.
The new OpenVZ doesn't suck like the classic one.
You should get decent speed for datacenters in Singapore & Malaysia. Thailand & Indonesia as well although they aren't as popular as the former.
Sorry, you won't find cheap VPS in Singapore. End of Story. Not sure about Malaysia though. Generally, Asia-Pacific(South-East-Asia) VPS's routed correctly should give you good ping times
That always depends on the purpose. As I said the allocation does not affect the load while Xen swapping affects the load. Its just how you want to plan ressources. From the node and from the domU point of view.
Forget about Thailand :-( and I have been looking for years now
best ping from a server I got is from India around 200ms.. how do I maximize the speed of VPS if I used it as VPN?