Singapore Hosting vs U.S. Hosting
In doing research it appears that many of the big players eBay, Microsoft, Amazon (except for Yahoo) host their web sites out of the U.S. and so I suppose that there is a very good reason for this. I came to this conclusion by doing tracerts on their international sites.
Our IT guy in Singapore is pushing to use Pacific Internet in Singapore to host the application. He went to a site that does tracerts and pings from other countries (www webpromo-inc com/tr/) to gather his information on access speeds. He was pinging servermatrix (69.56.222.40) in the U.S. and Pacific Internet (203.81.42.209) in Singapore and he got the following results.
avg ping time to SIN avg ping time to US
From Singapore 20 300
From Malaysia 50 250
From Thailand 500 1400
From HongKong 50 280
From Japan 120 200
From Taiwan 250 201
In doing research, it appears that Singapore has a very good infrastructure (one of the best in the world). Everything points to the fact that hosting for Asia would be best served in Singapore, but that raises the issue of why these large players are hosting it out of the U.S.
Am I wrong in my conclusions that Microsoft, Amazon, and eBay are hosting out of the U.S.? If I am not wrong, does anyone have any ideas of why they are not utilizing Singapore for hosting when the access times from these Asian locations to Singapore seem to be much better than from these countries to the U.S.?
