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One small site, like a portfolio or landing page
৳199/month
৳2,388 a year
- Storage 1 GB NVMe
- Websites 1
- Bandwidth 100 GB
- Email accounts 10
What is BDIX hosting?
BDIX hosting means your website sits on a server in Bangladesh whose network connects to BDIX, the Bangladesh Internet Exchange. When someone on a Bangladeshi network opens your site, their ISP can hand the traffic straight to your host at the exchange. It stays in the country instead of leaving through international links and coming back.
BDIX has been running since 2004. It is a not-for-profit exchange, licensed by BTRC as a National Internet Exchange, and more than 100 networks connect through it, including ISPs, mobile operators and content providers. Many broadband packages here advertise a separate, higher speed for BDIX traffic, which is why a site on a BDIX-connected server can feel quicker on the very same connection.
Why distance matters so much
Nothing on the internet beats the speed of light, and light in fibre covers roughly 200 km every millisecond. That puts a hard floor under every round trip from Dhaka, however good the server is:
| Server in | Straight-line distance | Fastest possible round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Singapore | about 2,900 km | about 29 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | about 7,400 km | about 74 ms |
| Virginia, USA | about 12,900 km | about 129 ms |
Those are floors, and real cables do not run in straight lines, so real figures are higher. They also multiply: a browser opens a connection, negotiates HTTPS, fetches the HTML, then goes back for stylesheets, scripts and images. A delay you would never notice once becomes a wait you do notice twenty times over.
We have deliberately not printed a latency figure of our own here, because yours depends on your ISP and where you are. Run the race and you will have a real number in a few seconds.
Who should choose BDIX hosting
- Shops selling inside Bangladesh. Your customers are here and so are their phones, often on a mobile connection where every round trip counts.
- Schools, colleges and coaching centres. Result day sends everyone to the site at once, nearly all of them from inside the country.
- News portals and local publishers. Readers are overwhelmingly local, and pages are heavy with images.
- Local service businesses. A clinic, a restaurant or a law firm in Dhaka has no use for a server in Virginia.
- Apps with Bangladeshi users. Anything that makes many small requests, such as an API or a dashboard, feels the difference most.
When BDIX hosting is the wrong choice
If most of your visitors are outside Bangladesh, host closer to them. A site on a Bangladeshi server is still reachable from anywhere in the world, but a visitor in London or Toronto has to make the long trip that a Dhaka visitor skips. Selling exports or running an international blog? A server near your audience, or a CDN in front of this one, will serve them better. We would rather you knew that now than found out later.
BDIX also cannot rescue a slow site. Uncompressed images and a pile of plugins will be slow from any datacenter, so hosting closer helps most once those are under control. Our WordPress speed guide covers the usual culprits.
How to check any host’s BDIX claim
“BDIX hosting” is an easy thing to write on a website. You can check it in a few minutes:
- Ask for the network’s ASN. It is a public number that identifies the network the server sits on. Ours is AS141988.
- Look it up on PeeringDB. That is the public directory networks use to list where they connect. Our record shows a 10 Gbps port at BDIX.
- Test from your own connection. Run a ping or a traceroute from your office broadband, then again from mobile data. Different networks can take different routes, and not every network reaches every other through the same exchange.
Web, Turbo or VPS?
| Web Hosting | Turbo Hosting | VPS Hosting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | ৳199/month | ৳825/month | ৳950/month |
| Best for | Most business sites and blogs | Busy stores, news sites, agencies | Custom apps and full control |
| Bandwidth | A monthly allowance | Unmetered | A monthly allowance |
| How you manage it | cPanel | cPanel | Full root access |
| You look after | Your website | Your website | Your website and the server |
If you are unsure, start smaller than you think. It is easier to move up with a real traffic number in hand than to guess now. Our guide to shared, Turbo and VPS hosting goes deeper, and how much hosting you need shows the arithmetic.
Moving your site here
You do not need to buy a new domain. When you order, choose to use your existing domain and update its name servers, or transfer it across. The safe order is to copy the site first, test it on the new server, and only then switch DNS. Our step-by-step moving guide covers it, including how to keep your email running during the switch. Rather not do it yourself? On Web and Turbo plans we will move your site across at no charge.