Best, always comes at a cost. Be it time, money or manpower.

From what you've described, you're better off with a reseller hosting. Why do I say this?



Most of the local reseller packages are rather pricey, compared to a server management panel like Runcloud and a barebones server (DO, Linode etc). Except, you would need to be hands-on with this when needed.

So.. if you want to spend less time fiddling / managing the server, best option I can see is the reseller hosting.

You pay a little more, but delegate the work to the provider's team.

The biggest pro of cloud over reseller; dedicated resource allocation and cost.

The biggest pro of reseller over cloud; less time needed monitoring / worrying about the server.

If you want lower prices, you can try looking for international reseller packages from A2, Siteground and more.

For the local options, I vouch for Serverfreak and NoFrillsCloud (AWS based). Other mentioned names I've heard others with good experiences are iCore, JimatHosting, Movahost and Cunhost.

If you look at international providers, double check their server locations. You wouldn't want to host in US while client's customers are based in Malaysia.

1. Depends on the plan you're getting.

For instance, if you took AWS with a server management panel (Runcloud) then you're kind of on your own. You could always ask their support for advice, except don't expect them to give you full support when DDoS occurs.

Providers like Serverfreak / IPServerOne have an extra service fee for server management in these cases. So you pay on top of their cloud hosting plan for their full support.


2. Yes, it does. Not so much between countries near to Malaysia like Singapore and Thailand. But more of traffic from Japan, Korea, Australia, US, Europe - if your clients do expect visitors from these locations.

Say the load times for Thailand is 5s. For Japan / Korea, it might be 8s and US might be 10-15s due to the distance that their Internet has to travel in order to download the data from your Malaysia server.

This is when a CDN service comes into the picture, if needed.


Depending on how your sites are developed, difficulty of setting up the CDN varies.