Company Reviews

Best Web Hosting Companies in Hong Kong: A 2020 Review

Other than being a top financial center, Hong Kong plays also a strategic role when it comes to business and technology in the Asia-Pacific region. It is the natural gateway to mainland China and the city-state also has a worldclass infrastructure that is second to none. It is therefore natural that many companies look for Hong Kong when they plan to host their websites targeting China or the Asia Pacific region. There are many web hosting companies in Hong Kong, some being around since the dot com era, but many newer ones as well. Our research and interviews with industry…

Top 3 China Optimized Web Hosting Providers in 2016: A Quick Review

For many years, the great firewall program in China has made it rare for businesses with operations or sales in China to market their services in the middle Kingdom, due to the various restrictions when it comes to hosting a website locally. Many global providers in the United States or Europe have their servers blocked or extremely slow to access from China. Due to that reason, it is of critical importance for big businesses as well as entrepreneurs of all sizes to find a web hosting firm that has services targeting web traffic from China, especially when such businesses do…

Introducing Aliyun, Alibaba’s cloud service

Aliyun (www.aliyun.com) is the Alibaba’s response to Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) for the Chinese market. Some would call it a clone, however Aliyun has not just copied the features and services of AWS, but rather developed a full product range that meet the requirements of the Chinese marketplace. While Aliyun is mostly known for its cloud servers, it is in fact more than just that. The mean products include; -Cloud servers (ECS) -Cloud Server Loads Balancers (SLB) -Elastic Scaling Services (ESS) -Cloud Load Balancers -Open Storage Service (OSS) -Content Delivery Networks (CDN) -Open Archive Service (OAS) -Open Table Service (OTS)…

Top 5 Web Hosting Companies in China with English Support

When it comes to hosting a website targeted to the Chinese audience, size is not everything. Finding a company that provides decent technical support and understands international clients requirements, and also has secure, powerful and well-maintained server infrastructure is essential. Below five companies that are clearly leading the rest of the pack when it comes to hosting international customers in the greater China region. 1. SinoHosting SinoHosting (www.sinohosting.net) is probably the most known among Chinese hosting companies providing English support. With offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen, SinoHosting hosts its customers on servers in mainland China (Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Jiangsu), Hong…

HostMacau, first cPanel host in Macau

We would all agree that Macau is more known for its casinos than being an IT hub. Things might start to change now with HostMacau.com, which provides cPanel hosting for companies and entrepreneurs in Macau. HostMacau.com is a brand of Cycom Hong Kong LimitedĀ , a web hosting group which owns 11 hosting brands accross the Asia PacificĀ  region. It is however the first time the company is offering shared hosting in Macau. Using the standard LAMP architecture, with cPanel control panel, Hostmacau targests businesses not only in Macau but in the greater China region, but also international companies targeting the…

KowloonHosting, new host in Hong Kong

If you are looking for a host in Hong Kong/China you can take a look at www.kowloonhosting.com ; although relatively new, this company appears to be professional, and their offerings are definitely competitive as compared to what you can get from the usual competition. This is not a review as we have not got an account with them to test the service. We will however do a review later this year. KowloonHosting provides shared hosting (Linux only), reseller hosting (cPanel+WHM) and dedicated servers in Hong Kong.

Company Reviews

In this new section, we will be reviewing from time to time hosting companies, domain registrars, VPS, dedicated servers and colocation providers in China. If you are one of such companies, please contact us for a free review.