BDIX vs Singapore, US or Europe Hosting: How to Choose

Choose by where your visitors are. If most of them are in Bangladesh, host on a BDIX-connected server in Bangladesh. If most are in one region abroad, host in or near that region. If they are spread around the world, host near the largest group and put a CDN in front of the site. Price, storage and features matter, but only after you have settled this.

The reason is distance, and no host can sell you a way around it. Below is the arithmetic, a side-by-side comparison, and a test you can run from your own connection. If the term is new, read what BDIX hosting is first.

Why does server location affect speed?

Every request your visitor makes travels to the server and back. Light in fibre covers about 200 km per millisecond, so no hardware can beat this floor: distance × 2 ÷ 200 gives the shortest possible round trip in milliseconds.

One round trip is not the whole story either. A new visitor's browser typically makes about three before the first byte of the page arrives: one to open the connection, one for the encryption handshake and one for the request itself.

These are floors, not measurements. Real cables take longer routes and equipment along the way adds time, so real figures are higher, and none of this counts the time your server takes to build the page. A BDIX route inside Bangladesh covers a small fraction of these distances. What that comes to on your line is something to measure, not something to read in an advert.

BDIX vs Singapore, Europe and US hosting compared

Which hosting location fits your visitors?

Almost all your visitors are in Bangladesh

Host on BDIX. A Dhaka clothing shop selling on Facebook, a school or a coaching centre has hardly anyone abroad to serve. Hosting overseas sends every customer over an international route for no benefit.

Mostly Bangladesh, with some abroad

Stay on BDIX, and add a CDN if the overseas share is large enough to care about. A news portal with readers in the Middle East and the UK is the usual case. The CDN delivers images and stylesheets from nearby, while pages it cannot cache still come from Dhaka.

Mostly one region abroad

Host there, even if your business is Bangladeshi. Take a buying house whose buyers are in Germany, or a freelancer's portfolio aimed at clients in the US. Those visitors travel the international route to reach Dhaka, and the physics runs both ways: a buyer in Frankfurt faces the same 74 ms floor. A server in their region serves them better. We sell BDIX hosting and will still tell you this.

Spread across the world

Host near your largest group and let a CDN carry the rest.

Not sure where your visitors are?

Open your analytics tool's report by country and city, then compare it with where your orders go. A blog post can pull in plenty of overseas readers while nearly all your paying customers are in Dhaka and Chattogram. Decide by the people who pay you.

Can a CDN replace local hosting?

Not fully. A CDN keeps copies of your images, stylesheets and scripts on servers close to your visitors, and that helps. But carts, checkouts, logins, search and admin pages go back to your main server every time. Picture a WooCommerce shop with buyers in Dhaka and a server in Virginia: the photos may arrive quickly, but the checkout still crosses the world.

Also, whether a CDN serves your Bangladeshi visitors from inside the country varies by provider and by ISP. Test it rather than assuming it.

How to run your own hosting speed test

1. Start with the live test. Our live ping test runs from your own connection, so the result is yours rather than ours.
2. Ping each candidate. In Windows Command Prompt, run ping -n 20 example.com (ping -c 20 example.com on a Mac). Note the average and the spread. A steady route feels better than one that swings widely, even if its average is a little higher.
3. Trace the route. Run tracert example.com (traceroute on a Mac) and look for the step where the time jumps sharply. That is often where the route leaves the country.
4. Test in real conditions. Use home broadband and mobile data, repeat it in the evening when networks are busiest, and ask someone outside Dhaka to try as well.
5. Measure a real page. In Chrome, press F12, open the Network tab, reload, click the first request and open Timing. Look at "Waiting for server response". A low ping with a long wait means the problem is the server or the site, not the route.

What else to weigh besides location

• How you pay. Many overseas hosts bill in dollars, which means you need a dollar card, and your cost moves with the exchange rate.
• Who you can reach. Check support hours, language and channels, and how they line up with your own working day.
• How easily you can move. Your domain stays where it is. You copy files and the database, then update your name servers or records, so this decision is not permanent.

If your audience is in Bangladesh, all our plans run from get.bd's datacenter in Dhaka and are BDIX connected, on network AS141988. Web Hosting starts from ৳199 a month, Turbo Hosting from ৳825 and VPS Hosting from ৳950, all billed in taka and payable by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Support runs 24/7 in Bengali and English. Web and Turbo plans include cPanel, free SSL, daily backups, LiteSpeed and free migration, and VPS plans come with full root access. No plan has a setup fee, and Web Hosting comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. See every plan on the BDIX hosting page.

Already hosted abroad? On Web and Turbo plans we will move your site across at no charge. To do it yourself, read how to move your website to Bangladesh hosting, then point your .bd domain at the new host.