Hello all,

I have a question regarding the status of web hosts in thailand.

I run a website where roughly 90% of the traffic is from thailand. I intend to put in a lot of rich media, videos and other streaming videos. even though 90% visit from thailand, it is the inter visits which generates the revenue. I run my own server colocated in Malaysia (ping from True ADSL 45 ms)

The website is based on php and mysql and is runing on a win2k3(with apache) box (which i will change to Linux probably FC6) will make things a little faster i presume.

Now I am considering moving the box to Thailand and need some inputs regarding the following points. Looking for your experiences of hosting in thailand, do mention which datacenter you use.

• 1) How good is the domestic bandwidth? Ping times from adsl to datacenter? and any bandwidth limitations?
• 2) How good is the domestic bandwidth? Any upload/download capping?
• 3) Is there a difference in the accessibility of the website from international sources goes down? It is very very important for me that when googlebot and other crawlers visit my site it should be a fast access to them, no network down, etc.
• 4) What is the average uptime (domestic and inter)
• 5) Pricing? Currently for malaysia web host i am paying US$50/Month for 1U rack space, 10 Mbps connectivity to shared backbone.

Also need some advice... if i were to ship the physical server from kuala lumpur to bangkok, what are the charges for customs? It is a 2 year old box, i dont think it can sell for even 50k baht now.. .anyone shipped server hardware to thailand before?

- Sajal Kayan