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Hosting in Singapore,close to your customers.

If the people you serve are in Singapore, the best place for your website is a few kilometres from them. Here is the reasoning, and a test you can run from your own connection.

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Your round trip to our Singapore servers

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  1. SingaporeZension–
  2. Tokyo–
  3. Sydney–
  4. Frankfurt–
  5. Virginia–

Our servers are in Singapore. The other four are public cloud servers in each city, measured the same way for comparison.

Distance is the one thing you cannot optimise

Every click on your site is a signal travelling to a server and back, usually several times per page. Light in glass fibre covers about 200 kilometres each millisecond. No software makes it go faster.

A server in Singapore answers a visitor in Singapore in single-digit milliseconds. A server on the American west coast cannot do it in under 136, however fast the machine. Multiply that by the round trips in a page load and it is the difference between instant and noticeable.

Does hosting in Singapore make your site faster?

Distance from Singapore and the minimum round-trip timeSingapore sits at the centre. Rings mark 1,000 to 14,000 kilometres. Ten cities are placed by distance, each with the shortest round trip that the speed of light in fibre allows.1,000 km3,000 km6,000 km10,000 km14,000 kmKuala Lumpurat least 3 msJakartaat least 9 msBangkokat least 14 msManilaat least 24 msHong Kongat least 26 msMumbaiat least 39 msTokyoat least 53 msSydneyat least 63 msFrankfurtat least 103 msSan Franciscoat least 136 msSingapore
Straight-line distances, drawn on a square-root scale. Light in fibre travels about 200 km per millisecond, so each 1,000 km adds at least 10 ms to a round trip. Real routes are longer and add more.
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Four reasons beyond speed

Your data stays in the country
Websites, databases and mailboxes are held on servers in Singapore. There is no overseas transfer to assess under the PDPA, and a simple answer when a client or auditor asks where their data lives.
Support in your working day
Our engineers work Singapore hours, in Singapore. A problem at 10am is handled at 10am, by someone who knows what a Singpass login or a PayNow payment is.
Local invoicing
Invoices in Singapore dollars from a Singapore company, with our UEN on them. No currency conversion, no foreign card fees, and paperwork your accounts team will accept.
A contract under Singapore law
Your agreement is with Zension Private Limited, registered here since 2007. If something goes wrong, you are not chasing a company on another continent.

Then keep the work short too

Once the distance is small, the rest of the wait is the server doing its job. This is the path a request takes on our platform.

  1. Your visitor

    Singapore

    Someone on the island opens a page of your site.

    Not needed this time

  2. Local network

    Singapore ISPs

    The request crosses town to our data centre. It never leaves the country.

    Not needed this time

  3. Firewall

    Web application firewall

    Known attacks and bad bots are dropped here, before they reach your site.

    Not needed this time

  4. Web server

    LiteSpeed

    If a stored copy of the page exists, it is sent back from here at once.

    Not needed this time

  5. Your application

    PHP, isolated per account

    Otherwise your site builds the page, inside limits no neighbour can eat into.

    Not needed this time

  6. Database and files

    MariaDB on NVMe

    Queries and files are read from solid-state storage.

    Not needed this time

RequestThe request leaves your visitor's browser.

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Location questions

Does hosting in Singapore help my Google ranking?

Not directly. Google has said server location is not what it uses to decide which country a site targets. What does help is speed, and a server close to your visitors is the simplest way to be fast for them. The longer answer.

Does the PDPA require my data to stay in Singapore?

No. The PDPA allows personal data to leave Singapore if it stays protected to a comparable standard. Keeping it here simply means there is no overseas transfer to assess or to explain to a client. PDPA and hosting.

My customers are across Southeast Asia. Is Singapore still right?

Usually yes. Singapore is the region’s main internet hub, so it is a short hop from Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and Manila. The diagram above shows the distances.

What if most of my visitors are in Europe or America?

Then host nearer to them, or put a content delivery network in front of a Singapore server. We will tell you honestly if we are not the right place for your site.

Which data centre do you use?

A commercial data centre in Singapore with redundant power, cooling and network connections. Ask us and we will send the facility details and certifications for your vendor assessment.

Can I test the speed before I buy?

Yes. The live test on this page measures your own connection to our servers. For a fuller trial, hosting plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Bring your site home

If your site is hosted overseas today, we will move it to Singapore for you, and you can measure the difference yourself.

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