Web Hosting In Thailand

[Godot]

Can anybody recommend a reliable web hosting service in Thailand? I need about 3-500 MB, ASP, PHP and a database (SQL, mySQL or Access). Should be no more than 1000 BHT a month. Preferably unlimited traffic.

[Guest IT Manager]

If ths is right off the planet, you tell me and I will freely apologise, in public right here.

If I wanted to do a site consisting of persons scantily clad or less, I would want 300-500 Mb. I would also prefer unlimited traffic.

The 1,000 baht per month is doable, but why on Gods little round green earth, would you want to host in Thailand? That makes no sense at all.

Further, referring to the second paragraph above, since there is a black list of sites in Thailand which contain such items of titillation, and since it is against the law to host such sites, why exactly would a host want to provide space, since twice in the last 3 months, hosts have been closed, staff arrested and equipment confiscated for having the sites on thier equipment.

IMHO better to talk to webmasters of sites similar to what you plan and see where they are hosting. Bear in mind also the government want all your details before offering you .th accreditation.

[george]

Try http://www.cablan.net

Very good service!

[sothex]

We start from December with webhosting service:

Disk Space 500mb

Traffic 50 GB / month

POP Accounts 20

FTP Accounts 20

Web Based Control Panel Yes

Sub Domains 10

Add on Domains 5

Domain Parking / Pointing 5

MySQL Databases 5

Front Page Extensions Yes

24/7 E-Mail Support Yes

Cron Jobs Yes

Price: 3,900 Baht / year

Also other disk space and traffic possible.

You can contact me e-mail: [email protected]

[Godot]

Thanks for the replies. First of all, I'm certain that my business will NOT have any problems with censorship. I need the space for a lot of pictures and some lightweight video. I would also get a .com domain. Do you (IT Man) say that this is not possible with Thai web hosts? Second, since most (if not all) of the traffic would come from within Thailand, isn't there a speed issue here? Any thoughts?

[Godot]

To George:

Cablan sounds a bit expensive for the rather limited bandwidth. It does not seem to accept ASP either. The Silver plan (500 MB) would cost me about 1000 BHT for 2.5 GB bandwidth. Might be ok for Thaivisa, for me I think (hope) I need more. Hosts like Lunarpages would charge about half the price for 20GB.

[Guest IT Manager]

Thanks for the replies. First of all, I'm certain that my business will NOT have any problems with censorship. I need the space for a lot of pictures and some lightweight video. I would also get a .com domain. Do you (IT Man) say that this is not possible with Thai web hosts? Second, since most (if not all) of the traffic would come from within Thailand, isn't there a speed issue here? Any thoughts?

Hi,

Yes a speed issue. Questions to ask the host:

What is your relationship, (electronically) to the spine. Is it fiber optic or multipl copper lines?

What is the maximum number of concurrent connections you can support. (If the answer to 1 was direct fiber optic, the second question is moot.

If you are planning most traffic to be internal, it is also not an issue. However, why would you see that most traffic is internal, or is it a thai language site?

Just for interest. And please don't take offece at the first question or the supporting requests for information. There are plenty of sites in Thailand doing porn. They all have essentially the same requirements you posted. They are also knocked off the instant a site is located.

[Godot]

No offense taken. But I must say I'm a bit puzzled why you would assume that I, as a foreigner, would start a porn site, hosted in Thailand, and expecting that most of the clients would be living here?

Well, just to try and satisfy your curiousity: We are starting with 6-700 products, each with 4-5 jpegs (40k+, incl thumbnails) and some have videoclips of about 1 meg. Our customers will mainly be foreigners living in Thailand. Not a pay site. And no, the "products" will not be scantily clad persons of any gender, or any other living creature for that matter.

My initial question was simply if anybody out there has had any experience with Thai web hosts, good or bad. Guess I'll have to decide whether or not the drawbacks (language, service, reliability? etc) will outweight the speed issue. Or maybe one could find a host closer to Thail? I know the Phuketgazette is hosted from Singapore. And what about Australia?

[george]

To George:

Cablan sounds a bit expensive for the rather limited bandwidth. It does not seem to accept ASP either. The Silver plan (500 MB) would cost me about 1000 BHT for 2.5 GB bandwidth. Might be ok for Thaivisa, for me I think (hope) I need more. Hosts like Lunarpages would charge about half the price for 20GB.

cablan.net are not one of the cheapest, but you get real good value for money. Don'r choose a cheap provider because the bandwidth is cheap, you need a high qulaity bandwidth!

FYI thaivisa.com use about 40-50 GB per month.

[Godot]

cablan.net are not one of the cheapest, but you get real good value for money. Don'r choose a cheap provider because the bandwidth is cheap, you need a high qulaity bandwidth!

I agree! That's why I would like to have some recommodations of some "real time experiences". If a hosting company says we have this-and-this much of this-and-this available, it does not always imply good quality (i.e, quality vs quantity. Much like the bars here, I guess). Anyway, thanks for the recom, but since they do not support ASP, I think I have to look elsewhere.

[singa-traz]

My initial question was simply if anybody out there has had any experience with Thai web hosts, good or bad. Guess I'll have to decide whether or not the drawbacks (language, service, reliability? etc) will outweight the speed issue. Or maybe one could find a host closer to Thail? I know the Phuketgazette is hosted from Singapore. And what about Australia?

Physically close does not mean Electronically close ...

Depending on the ISP your future customers use, if you host in Singapore ... your jpg file could make a trip to California ...

... as for the 1MB small video ... you are targeting a really niche market ... farang with broadband in Thailand !

[george]

cablan.net are not one of the cheapest, but you get real good value for money. Don'r choose a cheap provider because the bandwidth is cheap, you need a high qulaity bandwidth!

I agree! That's why I would like to have some recommodations of some "real time experiences". If a hosting company says we have this-and-this much of this-and-this available, it does not always imply good quality (i.e, quality vs quantity. Much like the bars here, I guess). Anyway, thanks for the recom, but since they do not support ASP, I think I have to look elsewhere.

They have windows hosting as well with .asp:

http://www.cablan.net/cablan/Windows_hosting_.311.0.html

[Godot]

Depending on the ISP your future customers use, if you host in Singapore ... your jpg file could make a trip to California ...

Point taken. But I did a trace to the Phuketgazette and it seems, at least for their part, that most of the ISPs (KSC, loxinfo, Ji-Net, etc) have a "direct" connection from Bangkok to Singapore, as opposed to going to Aus or USA first. Also, by doing a ping request it seems that the speed is a lot fater than, say, a site in the US.

... as for the 1MB small video ... you are targeting a really niche market ... farang with broadband in Thailand !

Well, the videos are supposed to be an additional service for those who want more than just the pics. Besides, making a low-quality (2-300k) stream (or a download)should be acceptable even over a dial-up. And, with the amount of internet cafees around, it shouldn't really be a problem.

[exchange1973]

Hi Godot,

why not hosting in europe. Reliable service in a managed environment.

For example one of the biggest german provider sells a solution with this features:

5 international domains (com,net,org,info,biz)

unlimited @domains

domainforwarding

500MB

25 GB traffic

FTP-access

300 pop3-accounts

2 mysql-databases

BackupControl

SSH-access

Webmessaging

CGI's

Realvideo/RealAudio

PHP 3, PHP 4, Python & SSI (Server Side Includes)

logfiles,statistics

Connectivity (Datacenter)

644MBit Backbone Frankfurt

Servermachines SUN E6500

24/7 Controlling

All for € 19,90 per month (domainregistration inclusive)

(about 950 TBH). Good price isn't it?

If you need some assistance -> contact me!

Regards and Greetings from cold Berlin!

exchange1973