Why Singapore for Asia-Pacific
Singapore is where Asia-Pacific networks meet. Dozens of submarine cables land on the island, every major carrier and content network has a point of presence there, and it is the regional hub for cloud providers, exchanges and payment networks alike. For a server that has to be reachable from Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila and Ho Chi Minh City with low latency, there is no better single location, and from the same box Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tokyo and Sydney are all within a round trip you can build an application around. A European server, by contrast, is 160 to 200 ms from any of those cities, which is enough to make an interactive app feel slow.
Our Singapore location is the only one outside Europe and the US, and the only option for anyone who needs an Asian IP address and Asian latency without opening an account or handing over identity documents. Ordering, payment and management are exactly as in the other locations: pick a plan, pay in Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Solana or by card, and manage the server from the link emailed to you.
Latency from Singapore
Approximate round-trip times from a well-peered Singapore datacenter, based on public measurements and published cloud inter-region figures. Last-mile conditions in Southeast Asia vary more than in Europe, so consumer ISPs can add 10 to 20 ms to these.
- Kuala Lumpur: 8 to 15 ms. Jakarta: 15 to 20 ms (some paths closer to 30 ms).
- Bangkok: 25 to 35 ms. Ho Chi Minh City and Manila: 25 to 35 ms. Hong Kong: 30 to 40 ms.
- Mumbai: 50 to 75 ms. Tokyo and Seoul: 65 to 80 ms.
- Sydney: 85 to 110 ms.
- Frankfurt and London: 155 to 180 ms. US West Coast: 165 to 180 ms. US East Coast: 220 to 240 ms.
Singapore is not the best location for Japan, Korea or Australia on its own, but it is the best compromise if one server has to cover all of Asia-Pacific. For a Japan-only audience a server on the US West Coast (Hillsboro) is about 100 ms away, which is no better; Singapore at 70 to 80 ms wins there too.
# Measure from where your users are; a day of BVX11 in Singapore costs about $0.63.
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Two plan families are offered in Singapore: BVX shared-vCPU AMD plans in both the current and the newer generation, and BVG dedicated-vCPU AMD EPYC plans. The BVA Arm and BVCX cost-optimised families are Europe-only. Singapore prices sit between Europe and the US for the shared plans; the figures below are USD per month with the prepaid per-day rate (monthly divided by 30).
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Per month | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BVX11 (shared x86) | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB | $19 | $0.63 |
| BVX12 (shared x86, newer gen) | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB | $30 | $1.00 |
| BVX21 (shared x86) | 3 | 4 GB | 80 GB | $35 | $1.17 |
| BVX22 (shared x86, newer gen) | 3 | 4 GB | 80 GB | $50 | $1.67 |
| BVX31 (shared x86) | 4 | 8 GB | 160 GB | $60 | $2.00 |
| BVX32 (shared x86, newer gen) | 4 | 8 GB | 160 GB | $90 | $3.00 |
| BVX41 (shared x86) | 8 | 16 GB | 240 GB | $100 | $3.33 |
| BVX42 (shared x86, newer gen) | 8 | 16 GB | 240 GB | $175 | $5.83 |
| BVX51 (shared x86) | 16 | 32 GB | 360 GB | $180 | $6.00 |
| BVX52 (shared x86, newer gen) | 12 | 24 GB | 480 GB | $250 | $8.33 |
| BVX62 (shared x86, newer gen) | 16 | 32 GB | 640 GB | $325 | $10.83 |
| BVG13 (dedicated vCPU) | 2 | 8 GB | 80 GB | $100 | $3.33 |
| BVG23 (dedicated vCPU) | 4 | 16 GB | 160 GB | $200 | $6.67 |
| BVG33 (dedicated vCPU) | 8 | 32 GB | 240 GB | $325 | $10.83 |
| BVG43 (dedicated vCPU) | 16 | 64 GB | 360 GB | $650 | $21.67 |
| BVG53 (dedicated vCPU) | 32 | 128 GB | 600 GB | $1200 | $40.00 |
| BVG63 (dedicated vCPU) | 48 | 192 GB | 960 GB | $1850 | $61.67 |
Note how the dedicated plans compare with the shared ones here: BVG13 at $100 is the same price as BVX41 and gives two cores that are never oversubscribed plus 8 GB, while BVX41 gives eight shared cores and 16 GB. Pick BVX for bursty web workloads that want RAM, BVG for anything that holds a core busy. All plans include 20 TB of monthly outbound traffic, inbound free, IPv4 plus IPv6 and NVMe.
Singapore is not a privacy haven
Choose Singapore for its network, not for its legal environment. It has a data-protection statute, the Personal Data Protection Act, which applies to organisations handling personal data in Singapore, including hosted data. It also gives police investigating an arrestable offence broad powers under the Criminal Procedure Code to access, search and copy data on computers operating in or from Singapore, to order assistance including passwords, and in defined cases to require decryption; the Cybersecurity Act adds investigatory powers of its own. Content and speech regulation is stricter than in the EU or the US. None of this is unusual for the region and none of it affects a lawful web app or game server, but if jurisdiction is a primary concern, Finland or Germany are the better fit and the no-KYC guide explains what the hosting layer can and cannot see in any location.
- BitVPS operates under US law regardless of location; a Singapore server is subject to Singapore law for what happens on the ground and to our Acceptable Use Policy everywhere: no cryptocurrency mining, no spam, no scanning, no Tor exit nodes.
- Timezone: Singapore Standard Time is UTC+8 all year with no daylight saving (Asia/Singapore). Server images boot on UTC; leave them there.
- Geolocation: the IP resolves to Singapore, which is what most region-gated services in Southeast Asia expect to see.
What people run in Singapore
- Web apps, APIs and bots for Southeast Asian users, where 15 to 35 ms to Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok is the whole point.
- Game servers for the region on BVG dedicated cores, which keep tick rates stable under load.
- WireGuard endpoints with an Asian exit for travellers in the region, or for reaching services that expect a Singapore or wider APAC address.
- Monitoring and synthetic checks that show how a site behaves for Asian visitors; a day of BVX11 is about $0.63.
- An Asia-Pacific replica or edge for a service whose primary runs in Europe, so APAC users get their first byte from a nearby continent.
Ordering a Singapore server with Bitcoin or Monero
Open the configure page, pick a BVX or BVG plan, select Singapore and watch the price update to the Singapore figure. Choose an OS (Ubuntu 24.04 is the default), set the number of prepaid days, paste an SSH public key, enter an email for the access link and pick Crypto, then the coin. Bitcoin confirms in 10 to 30 minutes, Monero, Ethereum and Solana in a few minutes, and the server provisions as soon as the payment is credited. Each coin has a small minimum of a few dollars; one day of BVX11 at $0.63 is under it, so order a few days or pay by card for a very short rental. The prepaid server is deleted when its period ends unless you extend it from your access page; a reminder email arrives first.
Which plan to pick
BVX11 at $19 covers a VPN endpoint, a monitoring probe or a small site for Southeast Asia. BVX21 at $35 or BVX31 at $60 handle most web apps and bots. For game servers, databases or anything CPU-bound, BVG13 at $100 or BVG23 at $200 give dedicated cores. Configure a server, choose Singapore, and pay in Bitcoin, Monero or card; the access link arrives once the payment confirms.