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Architecting for APAC: Why You Should Deploy Bare Metal in Manila 🇵🇭

When designing network topologies for Southeast Asian users, latency, throughput, and data sovereignty are paramount. For years, deploying in Singapore was the default. Today, Manila offers a highly compelling alternative to serve one of the fastest-growing internet populations directly.

In our latest post on EPY Host, we break down the engineering advantages of Manila data centers:

  • The PHOpenIX Advantage: Direct peering for sub-10ms domestic latency.
  • Latency Benchmarks: 30-40ms to Hong Kong, 35-45ms to Singapore.
  • Data Sovereignty: Absolute compliance with the Data Privacy Act of 2012.
  • Baseline Hardware: A look at robust, reliable Intel Xeon E3 setups with 30Mbps unmetered bandwidth.

Read the full architectural guide on our blog.

Link: https://www.epyhost.com/blogs/philippines-dedicated-servers-apac/

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