I would like to know where are the most popular datacenter in aisa?

especially i want to know those from singapore, hongkong, mainland china.

question? as my experience in singapore, datacenter only provide unmanaged colo, the price is high, but the bandwidth is low.

how come the ISP and datacenter from US can provide better service but we need pay less?

how to run datacenter? where to learn?

Nope not true...

I can easily get u a colocation in StarHub Data Center, which is a major Cable Internet service provider here in singapore..

For colo, U$250 per mth for 32 IPs and unlimited hits/transfer..
It has a 100mbps connection.

For a dedicated server, it will cost u U$300 per mth for the specs:
Intel P3 1ghz
256mb ram
40gb hdd
unix/linux OS

The dedicated server package comes with unlimited transfer/hits and is also connection by a multi homed 100mbps connection.

The real reason is that bandwidth in Asia is typically expensive. To start off with, due to the huge geographical distance, the ocean cables that they can pull can only carry so much data and cost substantially. To make matter worst, most Asian ISPs have to pay huge amounts of money to peer with their US counterparts, making the onus of the cost of the connections on them.

In general, the ISP in Singapore is not that expensive. But their bandwidth is severly limited. While they may claim it's a 100mbits connection, in US context, that means a 100mbit port. Certainly over here they do not meter your transfers, but they are severly limited by the pipe overseas that they have.

For example, DataOne allows you unmetered transfers. But the whole data center has only 2Mbit/s. Yes. you read that right. 2Mbit/s. So what if there's 100mbit ports? Same thing with starhub, Singnet or such. They may have more bandwidth, but still, it's limited. For example, the Starhub center is so crowded that you be lucky to get 20kb/s out of it from overseas. That compares to a few Mbytes/s for US dedicated machines.

As to how to run a datacenter, I am sorry there's no books on that that I know. Perhaps you should go work for one to learn.

Yea.. I kinda agree with u here sprintserve

Even our cable connection ISP bandwidth is capped :P
We can up only up to 1.5mbps downstream and 128kbps upstream..

And when we talk abt adsl here, it 512k downstream and 256k upstream..

What do you think Japan? :)
It's not slow between US and Japan.

ASDL doing it the Korean WAy!!!

Did you think you had ADSL? In South Korea you get ADSL with a normal speed of 8-10Mbit!!!!! Yah... No joke...!!! And that for the same price we pay for 512Kb!

Asia is big guys... don't put all the countries on one big pile... You would be amazed what they have there... Phones with video... live... it's amazing.

It's not that much different. It depends a lot on their international connections and not local connections.