China VPS hosting in Hong Kong

Why host in China

A visitor in Hong Kong reaches a server in Hong Kong in 5–35 ms into Mainland, through HKIX, PCCW, China Telecom. The same visitor reaching a server on another continent adds 150 to 300 milliseconds to every round trip, and an HTTPS page load makes several before the first byte arrives. Choosing the region is the cheapest performance decision you will make, and it needs no work on your part beyond ticking the right box at checkout.

What people run here

• Greater China reach
• Cross-border trade apps
• Mainland-optimised routes

Hong Kong region at a glance

Hong Kong is an edge region: the hardware is operated in a partner facility to our specification, under our monitoring and our SLA. Hardware replacement can take longer here than in a core region, and we would rather say so than have you find out during an incident.

What a China VPS costs, plan by plan

Prices in China are listed in US dollars per month, even though the local currency is the CNY. China has a price ladder of its own rather than a blended global rate. The entry plan, VPS 1C-2G, is $19.99 a month for 1 core and 2 GB of RAM; VPS 2C-4G (2 cores, 4 GB) is $34.99. The lowest-priced KryoHost region is Germany at $14.99 for its entry plan, so China sits 33% above it. The most expensive region is Kuwait at $42.99.

Memory is what a growing site runs out of first, so the price of each gigabyte is the useful comparison. VPS 4C-16G is the cheapest way to buy RAM in Hong Kong, at $5.62 per gigabyte, and the smallest plan costs $9.99 per gigabyte. If you expect to need more than 4 GB within a year, starting on a mid-size plan costs less than outgrowing the smallest one and migrating.

What people run in Hong Kong, and what it needs

The businesses that host in China most often are the ones in the list below. For each, this is what the server needs, and which plan sold in Hong Kong fits it.

Greater China reach: choose the plan for the load

Workloads like this are served best from inside the market they serve. In Hong Kong that means 5–35 ms into Mainland, with HKIX, PCCW, China Telecom as the upstream path. A reasonable first server is VPS 1C-4G (1 core, 4 GB of RAM) at $24.99 a month, and moving up a plan later is a short, planned change rather than a rebuild.

Cross-border trade apps: size for the database, not the web server

Application servers are usually limited by the database and by memory, long before the CPU. In Hong Kong the usual starting point is VPS 1C-4G at $24.99 a month (1 core, 4 GB of RAM), which leaves room for the app, a database and a cache. Hosting in the market you sell to also shortens every API call your customers make, and HKIX, PCCW, China Telecom keeps that traffic on regional routes.

Mainland-optimised routes: choose the plan for the load

Workloads like this are served best from inside the market they serve. In Hong Kong that means 5–35 ms into Mainland, with HKIX, PCCW, China Telecom as the upstream path. A reasonable first server is VPS 1C-4G (1 core, 4 GB of RAM) at $24.99 a month, and moving up a plan later is a short, planned change rather than a rebuild.

Regions near Hong Kong

China is one of 47 country regions KryoHost sells. If your visitors are split between China and a neighbour, the table lists the closest alternatives with their typical latency and entry price. India is the lowest-priced of these at $14.99 a month, $5.00 less than China for the entry plan. Choose it only if most of your visitors are closer to Mumbai than to Hong Kong.

Every region runs the same platform, so moving between them later is a migration our team handles at no charge, not a rebuild. Browse the full list on the VPS hosting page.

What every KryoHost region includes

• KVM virtualisation with full root access and a dedicated IPv4 address
• NVMe storage and reserved CPU and RAM, not a shared container
• Always-on network-level DDoS filtering
• Free migration from your current host, handled by our team
• Support around the clock: tickets and live chat

Hardware, security, migration and support are covered once, in full, on the VPS hosting page, rather than repeated on every country page. Questions about China specifically are best put to our team on live chat.