Locations & jurisdictions
Which VPS location is best for Asian users?
Short answer
Singapore for Southeast Asia and India, Tokyo for Japan and Korea, Hong Kong for Greater China, and Mumbai for the subcontinent. Singapore is the safest single choice: more than fifteen submarine cables land there, giving predictable latency across the whole region.
If jurisdiction matters as much as latency, Kuala Lumpur is the offshore-tier answer for Asia — outside every Western alliance framework, with direct capacity to Singapore and Hong Kong and only a few milliseconds of penalty.
For China specifically, no offshore location is reliably fast; cross-border throughput is shaped and variable. Hong Kong is the least-bad option, and Taipei offers routes independent of mainland transit.
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