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VPS Servers in India – Are there any trused/affordable companies?
December 24, 2009 in Technology by guest
We have heard of weird stories from Indian hosting companies (lack of support) and since our site traffic is ~80% India, I am wondering if there are any good VPS hosting companies in India.
I am not looking for a simple list, but your experience/trust.
I would vouch for e2enetworks (http://e2enetworks.com/). Have recently shifted on their servers and its been a good experience so far. Low latency in India would be their USP from the way i look at it and yes, they try to come up with good plans to start with if you are a developer too!
Even if your traffic is ~80% India, you can always get a box in Europe/US and have pages load fast enough. Things like css sprites, js concatenation (and other yslow recommendations) are more important than ping times (for most sites anyway)
I love VpsFarm recommended by you
their service is awesome and very affordable …
Slicehost is good.
Seems like my earlier reply to the original question got lost somewhere.
Prateek,
I agree YSlow gives substantial improvement to performance of webpages. However having less latency improves the site performance even further after applying the YSlow rules. See http://code.google.com/speed/files/delayexp.pdf
A 200ms latency per page load element can make a lot of difference to the site performance over and above what can be squeezed from committed CPU+Memory+Disk IOPS on a VPS and after application of Yslow rules.
Tarun Dua
http://e2enetworks.com
Bringing hosting back to India
Hi,
This is Tarun Dua from E2E Networks.
I agree with Prateek that there is a lot of performance optimization that you can do with CSS sprites ( reduces the number of image elements to load) , combining CSS files, javascript minify, concat and at the bottom apart from other Y! Slow rules.
Dedicated RAM, sufficient IOPS and fair share of CPU are some other elements that need to be in place so a web visitor to your site is not queued for several seconds before she gets her first byte of your website.
Add to it hosting in India at < 85ms latency gets you another level of performance boost beyond these optimizations where you can aim for snappiness that only big boys in the media industry could hope to buy till now in India. Think each page element load saving 200ms on overall page load times. Google's research shows it is important to reduce latency of your webpages http://code.google.com/speed/files/delayexp.pdf.
Thank you Arindam for vouching for E2E.
-Tarun
Bringing hosting back to India
http://e2enetworks.com