Finding a Philippine-based VPS

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When I learned the term about multihoming, I revisited my interest again to have a VPS (Virtual Private Server) to setup as a VPN (Virtual Private Network) for my home network.

I wanted it to be hosted in the Philippines because of latency. Major hosting providers uses Singapore or Hong Kong to cater the PH market. But the latency is just too high at around 30ms.

I found one in LightNode. The cost is reasonable too for $7.7 USD/month.

LightNode dashboard showing a running VPS instance with Manila as the location.
LightNode’s dashboard

The drawback is it looks to be limited to 100mbps only. Which is still reasonable.

OpenSpeedTest results showing 104.6 Mbps download and 99.0 Mbps upload speeds for the LightNode VPS.
Speed test from/to VPS to my home internet

Checking the hops, it looks like they are hosted within PLDT’s data center:

IP address details for 27.110.236.38 showing it is hosted by Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company.
IP information

This is why the latency is at a very good range of 7ms. It does hop at one NAT which I think adds the 2ms. Overall this is good.

I’m going ahead and continue to use this and integrate it with my home network setup.

Next step is to understand multihoming.

Related: Getting My Own ASN and IP Addresses: APNIC or RIPE.

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