Website hosting....in Vietnam.

beckster

beckster

beckster

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I plan on buying a domain through GoDaddy tonight and then find hosting for a website in Vietnam. The problem is all the local hosting seems pretty expensive. What should I be looking out for when I choose a package? Would it be really slow if I go with GoDaddy's own hosting package? Any other recommendations?

The website will be a clothing store for Vietnamese people.
 
Why not buy a Vietnamese domain but hosting somewhere else like the UK?
I don't know what GoDaddy servers are like for speed but I've used US and UK based hosting before without major issues.

Domain pointing is easy as pie.
 
Vietnam is pretty close to Hong Kong topologically speaking in terms of the internet... see if you can find a hosting provider with servers there. The US/UK will introduce significant latency which isn't always best, but then I'd imagine most of Vietnam is on 56k modem or something anyway. :o
 
mrk said:
Why not buy a Vietnamese domain but hosting somewhere else like the UK?
I don't know what GoDaddy servers are like for speed but I've used US and UK based hosting before without major issues.

Domain pointing is easy as pie.
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probably because the pipes into and out of vietnam aren't that fat, as well as added latency which on an e-commerce site with lots of images is a killer.
 
But nobody in Vietnam would be any wiser about the latency would they surely :p

Plus, the internets is just a series of tubes

 
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Yes they have internet in Vietnam, I think I am on 2mb ADSL :P. I was also thinking about going with www.shopify.com as an all in one hosting and design package thing as I am pretty clueless and seems easier then hiring a website developer. Would the latency be pretty bad? Any other options? I have found www.webshaper.com.my in Malaysia but not much else. Help!
 
beckster said:
Yes they have internet in Vietnam, I think I am on 2mb ADSL :P. I was also thinking about going with www.shopify.com as an all in one hosting and design package thing as I am pretty clueless and seems easier then hiring a website developer. Would the latency be pretty bad? Any other options? I have found www.webshaper.com.my in Malaysia but not much else. Help!
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It depends where it is hosted, a hostinc company should be on a pretty fat pipe so the only latency is an increase in distance and switches as opposed to actual bandwidth satuation.

ie from here to america I always get 75ms ping minimum because that is the speed of light. It is going to be something similar to somewhere in Asia but if the customers are based in Asia it is all good and + ping doesn't matter for websites anyway. you don't not visit US sites because they are slow.

Of greater importance is the reliability of the hosting company and their ability to look after the server.
 
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