The Network Behind HostSG Infrastructure

With over 1 million web hosting companies on the web, it prove to be very difficult for the average consumer to select a decent and top-notch service provider when every provider seems to be talking about the same thing. Business owners in Singapore often asked what is the difference between a US hosting company or a Singapore Hosting company since the variation in fees seems to be almost 10 folds compared to the features US hosting companies provide.

In US, it is very common to find a web hosting provider that provides you terabytes  of hosting space at only low cost fees from $10 USD per month. They will also throw in 1001 hosting features which will be supported with every hosting plan that you have signed up for. Most people do not know the bandwidth charges in US and in Singapore is almost 5 times more, with Singapore being a more expensive place to host your web site here.

Under US Hosting, due to the low fees structure and over-selling method, you get thousands of customers loaded onto one server. Over-selling means they do not expect you to fully use up to 100% of your disk space (imagine how are you going to use terabytes of legit web data?) . There is also highly protective TOC (terms of conditions) to indicate how much processing power you can used for your account and in the event that you exceed due to overage, they reserve the rights to terminate your account without refund. If you do your maths properly, imagine every single user use up to 1 Terabyte of data, the data transfer and bandwidth would kill the provider.

In Singapore Hosting, always check who your provider is hosting their network on. There are major network providers in Singapore such as Singtel, Starhub, Pacific Net, Qala (Known as M1 Connect now) . One of the many reason HostSG chooses Singtel is for their extremely large infrastructure based in Singapore that has the best international  coverage to Asia as well as worldwide. While better network coverage means higher cost for HostSG, but we believe in providing the best possible network platform for businesses that wish to have the highest standard of hosting service. This is part of HostSG vision.

To find out more about Singtel extensive worldwide coverage, please visit http://business.singtel.com/coverage/