Thaivisa Speedtest To Be Discontinued, Co-Location In BKK And SIN To Discontinue

[george]

Thaivisa Speedtest to be discontinued, co-location in BKK and SIN to discontinue

We are moving all remaining services to Amazon EC2 Cloud and are retiring our Bangkok and Singapore physical servers. From end of this month 100% all our services will be hosted in the Amazon EC2 cloud.

At the same time we are closing down our Speedtest servers in Bangkok and Singapore.

Reason:

1. Hight cost of yearly license fees from Ookla.com (2 licenses).

2. Extreme high bandwidth consumption with high costs involved. Advertising revenue for Speedtest not covering the costs.

3. Ookla Speedtests are not very reliable, since Thai ISP's are caching the test files and cheating the users.

4. Broadband speedtest are not our core business, we should concentrate on forum and social networking.

We will redirect speedtest.thaivisa.com and bangkok.speedtest.thaivisa.com to speedtest.net

-- George

[MJCM]

Understandable decision

Edited July 10, 2012 by MJCM

[Pib]

Are the Amazon EC2 Cloud servers located in Thailand/Southeast Asia or back in the States, Europe, etc?

The reason I ask is due to slow international bandwidth/download speed issue discussed in thousands of ThaiVisa posts. Seems in-Thailand bandwidth/speed and international bandwidth/speed to nearby locations like Singapore is pretty good...but when going to the US/Europe international bandwidth/speed drops off quite a bit which can mean s.....l......o......w surfing.

[whybother]

3. Ookla Speedtests are not very reliable, since Thai ISP's are caching the test files and cheating the users.

No surprise there.

[RedCardinal]

I'd say they will host on EC2 Singapore since Thailand has a direct peer with that country, and all traffic is effectively "in-country".

[george]

I'd say they will host on EC2 Singapore since Thailand has a direct peer with that country, and all traffic is effectively "in-country".

Thaivisa have been hosting on EC2 in Singapore for 1 1/2 year already, and now we are moving the remaining services to the cloud as well. We are also using their CDN (content delivery network, S3 and Cloudfront) since the beginning of 2012.

[astral]

What fault tolerance does EC2 offer?

It least with two physical servers it was unlikely both would fail at the same time?