Am looking for a dedicated server, however Australia is SO expensive - you know, $250/month for some crappy P4, $50/month for 1GB of ram upgrade and so forth. Where is somewhere nearby (for low latency) to Australia but a lot more economical and reliable? Not expecting anything for $50/month or something ridiculous, but something even close to what the rest of the world pays would be nice!
Nope, way too far away. Same goes with US, looking at 200ms+ purely due to distance. Ideally around 80-100ms would be good, off an AU server can get 40-50ms depending on location and I'm a few thousand K's away from Sydney or Melbourne. I was thinking Singapore, Japan, possibly that kind of region. Should still be fairly close and from what I know a lot of them have optical connections as they're not still living in 1901 like over here.
Los Angeles usually has some decent routes to Australia, not sure if they're in the range your looking for though.
I suggest you buy a server from South Korea. South Korea is very powerful for China and rest of Asia. Try to find a company also located inside South Korea not resellers outside.
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Well I think Malaysia or Singapore are better bet for you. Alternatively I'd recommend to have a look at West Coast providers from US. The ping should not go more than 100ms if you really in fast and decent connection. What are you actually going to get servers for? Game or Just some website hosting or Video streaming? It's really hard to recommend any particular provider without knowing actually what you want. If you decided to go with a provider, never forget to test the network. PING is NOT Everything.
South Korea Connection to Asia is powerful. With a South Korean Server you can easily cover China, Japan etc.. Make sure you find a proper company, experienced with good English support.
Since you are probably looking for game servers, Singapore would be more suitable or everything on west coast in USA.