We hopped the border. Malaysia -> Singapore
New VPN location for Southeast Asia.
Dear Malaysia VPN Users,
Our strategy of using smaller decentralized single-country “underdogs” providers for extreme privacy has become too difficult for Southeast Asia. Most of our Malaysia users either literally could not connect, or had horrible speeds.
For the US and EU, it can work, because there is the infrastructure to support it, so even the smaller providers can eventually connect to the backbone to get decent bandwidth. But, for southeast-asia, especially when surrounded by water, local customers that can’t pay much, and power outages, it’s simply unsustainable.
Challenges
I have searched far and wide for Malaysian providers, but the 4 local ones I found were all on Cloudflare A-record pointed web panels, and unwilling to barter deals with me by email for cryptocurrency without a web panel. Malaysia has pretty bad structural issues with power, as the upstream larger provider used by our provider had an outage as well. So even if we were on the Malaysia’s version of the backbone, we’d have some issues.
Solutions
However, we have found a provider in Singapore with decent bandwidth/speeds, and meets most of our conditions. But the big difference here is that they are using higher Tier datacenters for speed and it’s a Ukraine headquatered company. The larger center has more uptime, plus Singapore has significant financial trading, that has a higher quality of infrastructure than Malaysia right next door. Vsys/Virtual Systems is the Ukrainian parent company, with their Singapore division called Trunk Networks.
Roadmap
We are still sticking to our original underdog strategy for the US & EU, but it’s simply unsustainable for Malaysia. For Emerging Markets in Southeast Asia, we need to be relying on larger Tier datacenters that can offer the reliable uptime, even if that means it’s not perfect. Once we develop further, we can do more developed countries, such as Japan and New Zealand with our original strategy.
Final Thoughts
We have already switched all Malaysian subscriptions (which were currently not even working for most of you guys) over to the new Singapore location. Anyone who wants to switch locations can, and if you want a refund you can. We’re doing a release this weekend to make it easier to switch locations on HydraVeil, while users on other platforms should go to the web panel and enter their subscription code: vpn.simplifiedprivacy.is
Thanks and we look forward to continuing to walk together down the path for freedom and privacy.
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