VPSRENTO
Hong Kong · Standard tier
Hong Kong VPS. Asia's offshore hub.
No DMCA regime, the densest peering in Asia, a common-law tradition carried over from a century and a half of British rule — and 38 ms to mainland China. Hong Kong is where offshore hosting meets actual infrastructure. No KYC, crypto-only, root in 55 seconds.
- Standard tier
- from $5.99/mo
- 1 Gbps · 1 Tbps+ DDoS
- Median deploy 55s
Where offshore stops meaning "far away"
Hong Kong's Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528) grants rights-holders remedies — through Hong Kong courts. What it pointedly lacks is the American notice-and-takedown machinery: no safe-harbor conveyor belt, no administrative takedown body. A claimant must sue in Hong Kong, obtain an order from the Hong Kong courts, and serve it locally. US DMCA notices carry no statutory force here whatsoever.
The infrastructure case is overwhelming. HKIX is one of the world's largest internet exchanges by throughput, local carriers peer deeply with mainland China — 38 ms to Guangzhou — and across APAC, and transit pricing undercuts Tokyo and Singapore. For serving East and Southeast Asia from a jurisdiction with real courts and real peering, nothing else in the region compares.
The honest caveat, in one paragraph: since 2020, Hong Kong's National Security Law exists, and political speech at that level belongs in Iceland, full stop. For commercial copyright pressure, regional content delivery and China-adjacent routing, Hong Kong remains the APAC standard — and we keep saying the quiet part out loud.
Legal highlights
- No DMCA regime — Cap. 528 remedies run through Hong Kong courts only; US notices have no force.
- Common-law courts — independent judiciary, English-language proceedings, precedent-based.
- Asia's densest peering — HKIX, 38 ms to mainland China, direct APAC routes.
- Court order required — a Hong Kong court order only.
- Standard tier pricing — the APAC hub at $5.99 entry, undercutting Tokyo and Singapore.
Hong Kong facility, APAC's densest fabric
Same node build as every VPSRento location — the difference is the postcode and the cable path.
Tier III+ facility
Hong Kong datacenter: N+1 power and cooling, biometric access, 24/7 on-site hands, carrier-neutral meet rooms, and typhoon-season hardened infrastructure.
AMD EPYC KVM nodes
EPYC 75F3 "Milan" hosts for SV-Nano through SV-Pro; EPYC 9654 "Genoa" for SV-Max and SV-Ultra. DDR4 ECC, NVMe RAID-10, no overselling.
1 Tbps+ DDoS protection
Always-on L3/L4 mitigation in front of every IP, included free. L7 filtering available as a $4.99/mo add-on at checkout.
Network
2×10 Gbps uplinks via Telstra and HKBN; dense peering at HKIX. Mainland China routes are direct; APAC and US West run clean single hops.
Encrypted nodes, no logs
Full-disk encryption on every host. No activity logs, no connection logs — we can't sell or surrender what we never record.
Clean IPs
Every IPv4 is checked against 40+ DNSBLs before assignment. Flagged addresses are quarantined and recycled, never sold.
Looking glass & test endpoints
- Looking glasslg-hk.vpsrento.com
- Test IPv4103.133.24.2
- Test IPv62403:cfc0:c::2
- Speedtest files100 MB / 1 GB over HTTP at the looking-glass host
Test from your network
Run these before you buy. Numbers from your own ISP beat any marketing table.
$ ping -c 10 lg-hk.vpsrento.com
$ mtr -rwzbc 50 lg-hk.vpsrento.com
$ curl -o /dev/null http://lg-hk.vpsrento.com/1000mb.test
Median RTT from Hong Kong
Measured against our looking-glass host, trailing 30 days, median round-trip. Your route may differ — always test from your own network.
| Destination | Typical route | Median RTT |
|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 London — Western Europe | via Singapore / Suez | 185 ms |
| 🇩🇪 Frankfurt — Central Europe | via Singapore | 195 ms |
| 🇺🇸 New York — US East | via US West | 160 ms |
| 🇺🇸 Los Angeles — US West | direct trans-Pacific | 108 ms |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore — Asia-Pacific | via Hanoi | 38 ms |
| 🇧🇷 São Paulo — South America | via US West | 280 ms |
Who should pick Hong Kong
- APAC-facing services — 38 ms to mainland China, dense HKIX peering, Singapore in 38 ms.
- Regional businesses that need real courts — common-law process without the region's usual trade-offs.
- China-adjacent routing without mainland hosting — direct mainland peering from outside mainland jurisdiction.
"Half our users are in mainland China, half in Southeast Asia. From Hong Kong we get 38 ms to both, and the account is a token I paid for in XMR. Our previous host wanted a passport scan for a trial instance."
Standard tier pricing
Our base prices, unchanged since launch. Same five plans, same specs, same 55-second deploys as every location.
| Plan | vCPU (AMD EPYC) | RAM | NVMe | Bandwidth | Price/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SV-Nano | 1 | 2 GB DDR4 | 25 GB | 2 TB @ 1 Gbps | $5.99 |
| SV-Core | 2 | 4 GB DDR4 | 60 GB | 4 TB @ 1 Gbps | $10.99 |
| SV-Pro | 4 | 8 GB DDR4 | 120 GB | Unmetered @ 1 Gbps | $19.99 |
| SV-Max | 8 | 16 GB DDR4 | 240 GB | Unmetered @ 1 Gbps | $36.99 |
| SV-Ultra | 16 | 32 GB DDR4 | 480 GB | Unmetered @ 1 Gbps | $69.99 |
Quarterly −10% · 6 months −30% · annual −50%. Testing first? The hourly SV-Nano sandbox runs $0.009/hr, max 72 h. Windows VPS available in Hong Kong from $18.99/mo — see Windows plans.
Hong Kong, answered
For commercial copyright pressure, yes — the Copyright Ordinance still runs exclusively through Hong Kong courts, and no DMCA-style machinery exists. For high-profile political speech, we say so plainly: the National Security Law changed that calculus, and Iceland or Switzerland is the correct answer. We keep the distinction explicit because customers deserve an honest map, not a sales pitch.
No. The DMCA is US law; Hong Kong's Copyright Ordinance (Cap. 528) contains no notice-and-takedown safe harbor of the American type. A rights-holder must sue in Hong Kong, win, and obtain a court order before anything happens — and we act only on that order. Automated notices received at our Hong Kong abuse desk are logged and answered with the standard one-line reply.
Latency is a wash — both sit at 38 ms from each other. The differences: Hong Kong has denser peering to mainland China, lower transit prices, and no notice-and-takedown regime; Singapore has a different legal tradition and, in practice, faster compliance reflexes toward Western claimants. For China-adjacent routing and copyright resilience, Hong Kong wins. For purely Southeast Asian audiences, either works — test both looking glasses and let your own numbers decide.
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