Want to sell a product or target visitors in China?
There are hundreds of hosting platforms with a data center in the USA, Europe, and Asia. However, you have limited choices in China.
If you are looking to do business in China, you better host your site locally.
There are many reasons for it.
- Great China firewall
- Regulatory & compliance
- Serve content faster
Hosting in China would cost slightly higher than in another region.
Note: Having servers in Hong Kong will not be much help in mainland China. So if your users are on the mainland, then you better choose the hosting that a data center there.
Let’s take a look at some of the best hosting platforms which got data centers in China.
Warning: Most of the following mentioned sites are in the Chinese language. So be ready to use translation if Chinese is not your language.
AWS
AWS (Amazon Web Services) has collaborated with a local partner to offer cloud services. Currently, AWS is available in the following locations.
- Beijing
- Ningxia
You won’t see all the products offered in China, as you may see in AWS Global. However, it got a sufficient list of products to fit from small to enterprise-level applications.
If you are looking for a vast range of products and cost-effective solutions, then AWS would be the right choice.
Kamatera
Kamatera has worldwide servers, but the Hong-Kong presence is primarily meant for the people eying the Chinese audience.
They have flexible cloud-deployment plans that can be tailored to your particular use case.
You can choose from a list of operating systems, including the popular Linux distros and Windows server editions. Besides, you can also make use of any licensed OS of your choice.
Kamatera’s add-ons like the cloud firewall, load-balancer, etc., can prove great for security and an optimal user experience. In addition, you can avail of their managed cloud service to get a hassle-free cloud server running and maintained by their team.
Finally, they guarantee 99.95% uptime, and there is a 30-day free trial to get started without any risks.
Sino Hosting
One of the popular ones out there offers shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers. Sino got servers in the following locations.
- Shanghai
- Beijing
- Changsha
- Hong Kong
You can get it started with shared hosting from less than $10 per month. Sino provides one-click software installation like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, etc.
Support is available in English and provides ten days refund for shared hosting.
Alibaba Cloud
Need more coverage in Mainland China?
Probably Alibaba Cloud got the highest number of data center locations in China.
- Hangzhou
- Shanghai
- Qingdao
- Beijing
- Zhangjiakou
- Shenzhen
- Hong Kong
If you are not from China and need support on ICP application, then Alibaba Cloud would be a lifesaver.
Similar to AWS, Alibaba Cloud offers a full range of infrastructure services like CDN, VM, load balancer, database, backup, storage, etc.
GZIDC
GZIDC provides a large number of hosting related services, including the following.
- Web hosting
- Domain registration
- Cloud services
- Host rental
- and much more…
Under cloud services, you can choose to host your applications in the following multi-line DC.
- Guangdong
- South and North China
- Hong Kong
Western Digital
West is another popular offer all-in-one hosting solution. With more than 15 years in the industry, West has a good name in support and uptime.
HA Bang Net
Optimized Hosting for WordPress, HaBangNet server is located in Beijing.
The starter plan costs around $10 per month, and it comes with cPanel, where you can install your favorite software like Joomla, WordPress, etc.
In a starter plan, you get 5GB SSD storage, one free domain, 100GB bandwidth, etc.
Jinshan Cloud
Jinshan cloud is one of the top three public clouds in China. They got multiple products.
- Server
- Database
- Object storage
- CDN
- Load balancing
- Security-related
- Video solution
- Web application firewall
Jinshan is available in 19 data centers.
Tencent
Tencent Cloud is trusted by more than 10,000 developers worldwide, including popular products in China like QQ, WeChat.
Provisioning servers and other cloud services are easy with Tencent, and you pay for what you use.
If you are a startup or running existing business in a traditional data center, it would be worth to include Tencent in the list while moving the Cloud for a lower cost.
Baidu Cloud
Baidu is not just a Google search competitor but also a Cloud. You can choose to host in Beijing, Guangzhou, Suzhou and Hong Kong.
Similar go to GCP, Baidu Cloud got many IaaS products like compute, networking, storage, database, big data, AI, etc.
UCloud
Ucloud has served more than 50,000 enterprise customers and got 21 global data centers, including 5 in China.
It got the rich control panel to manage cloud services and recently container services. You can use their pricing calculator to estimate the cost of required cloud services.
Azure
Microsoft Azure offers over 100 cloud products and got data centers in China east and north.
Azure can be helpful for running an internal business and looking to extend the cloud to China. You don’t need to worry about dealing with two vendors — all your bills in one place.
Conclusion
China’s market is unique, and I hope the above helps you to find the best hosting for your business in China.