Asia Region Datacenter

DigitalOcean is so popular in Hostloc.com, a famous Chinese host talking forum. So more and more Chinese buy your vps these days. Not only can new asian datacenters bring you more money, but also Chinese can get high speed experience. As the Hostloc.com' webmaster, i suggest you set up new asian datacenters like Hong Kong and Japan. Thanks!

Andreas

Sep 11 2018

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Sep 11, 2018

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Hey guys, We've launched our first POP in Asia in Singapore. We're also actively working on establishing more peering relationships in the area as we've quickly learned that routing in the Asia Pacific region is a bit different than in the US or EU. We've made significant headway in bringing on more peering in the last two weeks after our launch and we're also bringing on new connectivity providers to improve latency for customers around the region including Korea, India, China, Japan, Thailand and Australia. We are very excited to have extended our global footprint and we selected Singapore as a great central location for Asia that also has very business friendly logistics. Thanks!

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Jim Chen commented

27 Jul, 2020 10:33am

Singapore is only good for South East Asia,
Hong Kong Japan would serve the northern Asia and Greater China area

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Derek commented

5 Dec, 2018 08:51pm

Hong kong is better for Asia country than Singapore. Im waiting for Hong Kong datacenter otherwise, i will move to different company hosting.

Google Hong Kong is live by the way. They do less than 6 month

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Moisey Uretsky commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Thanks for the kind words.

We are planning to expand to Asia.

Initially we want to cover East Coast (US), West Coast (US), Europe, and Asia.

We're half way there and hope to have Asia and the West Coast online before the end of the year.

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Varun Priolkar commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

+1

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Anonymous commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Any updates on this?

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Moisey Uretsky commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Asia will be most likely closer to the end of 2013.

Thanks

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Anonymous commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Thanks for the update, but uh... damn... that takes a long time :(

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Anonymous commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

what happen in the end?

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Moisey Uretsky commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

There are not a lot of great Colo facilities in and around Asia so we are waiting on updates from some larger Colo providers about new datacenter facilities that they are planning to open in 2013.

Once we have that information we'll be able to have more concrete estimates on when those new facilities will be available as regions inside of DigitalOcean.

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Joseph Chang commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Uploading/downloading speed is great from Asia (Taiwan), up to few megabytes per second! But the ping is way too high, from 225ms to 335ms.

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Anonymous commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

I would also be very interested in this, in particular Japan.

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Anonymous commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Hopefully digital ocean will come to South East Asia too

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Moisey Uretsky commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Agreed, we have a lot of customers in Singapore already and we're definitely looking into possible locations in the Area and Singapore is high on that list. =]

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Fung LAM commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

APAC Datacenter is great. But where? Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo or all of above?

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Ashvin Savani commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

@Moisey,

Thanks! Waiting for that.

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Ian Heggie commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

another vote for asia if it is closer to Australia in ping time

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Anonymous commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Quite disappointing to see that you plan Asia during the year end. But if you look closely, this is the place where you will get the majority of customers.

Will you update here when you have setup the DC?

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Moisey Uretsky commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

We will be providing updates here when we move forward with plans for an Asian DC but right now most likely our next new DC will be Brazil which we are currently investigating.

Opening up a new DC takes quite a bit of work and unfortunately when we work with other international countries the requirements are entirely different so the process is much more involved than opening up a DC in say the US.

Thanks

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Sharath Win commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

There are quite a FEW Awesome Co-Location providers in Singapore, India!

INDIA
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http://www.ctrls.in/private-data-suite.php
http://www.relianceidc.com/HTML/product_services/colocation_services/colocation/colocation_index.html
http://www.relianceidc.com/HTML/product_services/colocation_services/colocation/colocation_benefits.html
http://www.tatacommunications.com/providers/datacenter/colocation.asp

SINGAPORE
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http://www.equinix.com/locations/singapore/singapore-data-center/
http://www.savvis.com/data-centers/singapore
http://www.internap.com/colocation-provider-facility-overview/singapore-data-center/
http://www.apc.sg/singapore-colocation.php

Hope to see DO entering into Asia SOONER than planned.

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Lawrence commented

11 Sep, 2018 06:32pm

Looking forward to this! =)

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