Q&A · VER. 4.2
Questions about Mumbai
The two answers people actually ask about this site, then the five we give everywhere.
This site
Mumbai or Singapore for serving India?
Mumbai, by the width of the map: a server in Singapore is 35 ms from India's users before a single packet arrives, while a Mumbai rack answers them at 4 ms and keeps Indian data under Indian law. Singapore remains the hub for southeast Asia — 71 ms to Sydney and the region's densest fabric — but for India the local site is not a premium option; it is the default that used to be missing.
Why is Mumbai the Indian site rather than Delhi or Bangalore?
Because the cables decided: almost all of India's international fibre lands in or near Mumbai, which is why the exchange there is named after the city. From that landing point the site reaches Dubai at 33 ms, Hong Kong at 42, London at 93 and Frankfurt at 103 — the numbers of a country whose traffic passes through one harbour, now with a rack of its own at the flat price.
Everywhere
Which region should I pick?
Measure, then read. Median RTT decides most cases: pick the site closest to the users you already have, then check the local law if that matters to your data. We do not charge a regional premium, so the decision is never financial.
Is the price the same in every location?
Yes. A Nano costs €1.90 per month in Frankfurt and in São Paulo. There is no regional pricing tier, no 'emerging market' discount and no 'premium location' markup to optimise around.
Can I move a server to another site later?
Take a snapshot, deploy the same image at the destination, restore, update the DNS. The console does not yet automate the migration end-to-end, but nothing about the price changes if you redeploy somewhere else.
Is DDoS protection included?
Standard volumetric filtering is always on and always free at every site. If you need application-layer scrubbing with custom rules, the Advanced tier costs €3.90 per month per server.
What IP addresses do I get?
Every server ships with one dedicated IPv4 and a routed /64 of IPv6, both announced from the site you chose. Additional IPv4s are €1.20 per month each, up to eight per server.
Payments from India
Orders from India are handled exactly like every other order: checkout in euros, payment in Bitcoin, Monero or any of twenty-four assets, and the server provisions on the first network confirmation. No card, no bank, no name that has to match one.
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