ChemiCloud is the best web hosting for most Philippine websites, ScalaHosting Entry Cloud is the fastest plan here, Cloudways suits a site that needs room to grow, and Hostinger is the low-cost pick that bills in pesos. The first three let you place the site in Singapore and held up on our benchmark without a single failed request with up to 250 clients at once. I benchmarked the plans on this page with the same test site and ranked hosts on where they let you put the server, how they handled load and what they cost after the first term.
Here is the limit of what I know. Our test sites sat on servers in New York or Frankfurt, and we measured them from 10 locations. None is in the Philippines; the nearest are Singapore and Tokyo. So the load and uptime results tell you how good each platform is, and each host's own location list tells you whether you can put the server near your visitors. None of the hosts here lists a location in the Philippines; Singapore is the nearest most of them offer. Prices are in each host's own currency, and the six-year totals use the renewal price, because that is what you pay after the first term.
Our Picks at a Glance
ChemiCloud Pro
- Singapore location
- 210ms with 100 concurrent users, 0 failed
- $2.95/mo on 36 months
cPanel, email accounts, daily backups
See ChemiCloudScalaHosting Entry Cloud
- Singapore on its network map
- 58ms with 100 concurrent users, 0 failed
- $14.95/mo on 12 months
Email and SPanel included
See ScalaHostingCloudways DigitalOcean Premium
- Singapore on DigitalOcean
- 86ms with 100 concurrent users, 0 failed
- $14.00/mo billed monthly
No contract; email is an add-on
See CloudwaysHow We Tested, and Where We Measured
- One WordPress test site per plan, the same site everywhere, with the host's own caching left as it ships.
- The test servers sat in New York or Frankfurt. Hostinger and SiteGround answered fastest from Frankfurt, where their test servers were; the rest from New York.
- Response time (TTFB) from 10 locations: New York, Dallas, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo and Mumbai, at the origin with no CDN. None is in the Philippines; Singapore and Tokyo are the nearest.
- Load: a ramp from 0 to 250 clients at once. We report the response at the 100-user step and the share of requests that failed.
- Uptime checked every minute for 54 days.
- Server locations, plan contents, peso prices and payment methods: read from each host's own pages. Six-year cost = the first term at the sign-up price, then the renewal price.
We have not put a test site in a Singapore data center, and we have not measured from a Philippine connection. A host can run its Singapore location on different hardware from the server we tested, so read the speed results as a platform comparison. Full method: How We Test.
Web Hosting for the Philippines Compared
| Host and plan tested | Nearest location listed | 100 concurrent users | Failed, full ramp | Uptime, 54 days | Price | Six years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChemiCloud Pro, shared | Singapore | 210ms | 0% | 99.979% | $2.95/mo 36 months | $752 |
| ScalaHosting Entry Cloud | Singapore | 58ms | 0% | 99.99% | $24.95/mo 36 months | $2,336 |
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Premium | Singapore (DigitalOcean) | 86ms | 0% | 99.985% | $14.00/mo monthly | $1,008 |
| Hostinger Premium, shared | Malaysia, Indonesia, India | 520ms | 0.8% | 99.95% | $2.99/mo 48 months | $407 |
| FastComet FastCloud Plus, shared | Singapore, Tokyo | 420ms | 0.19% | 99.96% | $6.29/mo 36 months | $873 |
| Hosting.com Turbo Boost tested; Pro priced | Singapore | 534ms | 0.3% | 99.931% | $3.99/mo Pro, 36 months | $863 |
| SiteGround GrowBig, shared | "Asia" (no city named) | 780ms | 4% ramp to 100 | 99.97% | $6.69/mo 12 months | $1,880 |
| DigitalOcean Basic 1 GB, unmanaged | Singapore (SGP1) | 128ms | 0% | 99.95% | $6.00/mo monthly | $432 |
US dollars, before tax, from each host's US-dollar price list; Hostinger's Philippine site shows its own peso prices (see Hostinger). Six years: the first term at the sign-up price, then the renewal price for the rest. Load and uptime come from our test servers in New York or Frankfurt, not from the Philippines or Singapore.
#1. ChemiCloud: Best Web Hosting for Most Philippine Sites
- Singapore, one of ChemiCloud's server locations, for web, WordPress and reseller hosting
- 210ms with 100 concurrent users, 0 failed requests
- 99.979% uptime over 54 days
- Unlimited websites and email accounts, daily backups, 45-day money-back
ChemiCloud is shared hosting with cPanel and the LiteSpeed web server, and its own location list offers Singapore for web hosting, with Seoul as a second choice in Asia. On our benchmark Pro held up through the whole load ramp without a failed request: slower than the cloud servers below, but ahead of every other shared plan in this comparison.
It ranks first for everyday sites because of the whole package. One bill covers the hosting, the email accounts and the backups, and over six years it is the cheapest managed host with a Singapore location on this page, at $752 including three years at the renewal price. The low price needs the 36-month term; on 12 months it is $4.49/mo. ChemiCloud prices in US dollars. Current offers: ChemiCloud coupon page.
#2. ScalaHosting Entry Cloud: Fastest Plan in This Comparison
- Singapore: on its Integrated Cloud and on AWS, on ScalaHosting's network page
- 58ms with 100 concurrent users, 0 failed requests
- 38ms for one visitor near the test server
- 99.99% uptime over 54 days
Entry Cloud is a managed cloud server with CPU cores and memory reserved for your account, and it was the fastest plan in this comparison: 58ms with 100 visitors at once. SPanel, ScalaHosting's own control panel, covers email accounts, DNS, SSL and site installs, so you get a cloud server without a separate email bill.
Two things to weigh. It costs more: $2,336 over six years on the 36-month term. And ScalaHosting's own data centers are in the US and Bulgaria; its Singapore location runs on the partner cloud it integrates with and on AWS, so ask its sales chat to confirm Singapore for the plan you buy. Current offers: ScalaHosting coupon page.
#3. Cloudways: Room to Grow, Billed Monthly
- Singapore: one of the DigitalOcean data centers on Cloudways' own DigitalOcean page
- 86ms with 100 concurrent users, 0 failed requests
- 99.985% uptime over 54 days
Cloudways sets up and manages a cloud server on DigitalOcean and other clouds, and lets you pick DigitalOcean's Singapore data center. There is no contract: you pay for the server by the hour, billed monthly, and resize it in a few clicks when traffic grows. The DigitalOcean Premium server held up through our load ramp without a failed request.
Cloudways does not host email: its Rackspace mailboxes are $1.50 per mailbox a month, or you keep Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. It prices in US dollars, and with no renewal jump, six years cost $1,008. Current offers: Cloudways promo code page.
#4. Hostinger: Low Cost, Priced in Pesos
- Malaysia, Indonesia and India: its web hosting locations in Asia; no Singapore in that list
- 520ms with 100 concurrent users, 0.8% failed over the full ramp
- 99.95% uptime over 54 days
- GCash logo among the e-wallets on its Philippine payments page
Hostinger is the only host here with a Philippine price list. On its Philippine site Premium is ₱109/mo on a 48-month term, ₱5,232 paid upfront, and renews at ₱309/mo. Six years at those prices come to ₱12,648: four years at the sign-up price and two at the renewal price. Its payments page shows a GCash logo among its e-wallets, next to PayPal and cards, so you may not need a dollar card; check the options at checkout.
Two limits keep it at #4. Its support page lists India, Indonesia and Malaysia as its web hosting locations in Asia, not Singapore, and says the final list is the one in the dashboard when you set up the site; pick the nearest one there. And under load it was slower than the three above: 520ms with 100 visitors at once and 0.8% of requests failed. Our Hostinger test server, in Frankfurt, answered in 109ms nearby and 420ms from Singapore. Details: Hostinger resource limits explained.
Also Tested, With a Location in Asia
FastComet FastCloud Plus
FastComet has had a Singapore data center since November 2016 and a Tokyo one since September 2015. FastCloud Plus answered in 420ms with 100 concurrent users and failed 0.19% of requests over the full ramp. It is $6.29/mo on 36 months and renews at $17.95/mo, so six years cost $873, more than ChemiCloud for a slower result under load. See our FastComet review.
Hosting.com
Hosting.com lists Singapore for its Starter, Pro and Max plans and its cloud servers. We tested Turbo Boost, a plan inherited from A2 Hosting and no longer sold: 534ms with 100 concurrent users, 0.3% failed. The Pro plan that replaced it is $3.99/mo on 36 months and renews at $19.99/mo; we have not benchmarked it. See our hosting.com review.
SiteGround GrowBig
SiteGround says its hosting spans 11 data centers across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, but its page does not name the Asian city, so confirm it at checkout. Under load GrowBig was the weakest plan in this section: 780ms with 100 concurrent users and 4% of requests failed on a ramp that stopped at 100 clients. The sign-up price of $6.69/mo lasts 12 months, then it renews at $29.99/mo, which makes six years $1,880. See SiteGround pricing and renewal tips.
DigitalOcean Basic Droplet
DigitalOcean lists a Singapore data center (SGP1). Its Basic 1 GB Droplet is $6.00/mo and held up through our ramp without a failed request, 128ms with 100 concurrent users. It is an unmanaged server: you install and secure the web server, PHP, the database and backups yourself, and there is no control panel or email. If you want DigitalOcean's Singapore data center without running the server yourself, Cloudways above manages it for you.
Vultr High Frequency
Vultr's 1 GB High Frequency server held up through our ramp without a failed request: 130ms with 100 concurrent users and 99.97% uptime. Like DigitalOcean it is unmanaged. Vultr's location pages refused our read, so we make no claim here about where it can place your server; check its region list when you order. See our Vultr review.
Weakest Under Load on Our Benchmark
Three shared plans failed a large share of requests on our load ramp, wherever their servers sit. Bluehost Choice Plus answered one visitor in 262ms from New York, but over the ramp it failed 3,221 of 8,250 requests. HostGator Baby failed 31.95% and GoDaddy Economy 39.42%. That is not a result we would put a business site on, and we did not read their location lists for this page.
Why the Server Location Matters
Every page a server builds for a visitor makes a round trip across the distance between them. On our benchmark the same server answered from Singapore and Tokyo about three times slower than near home: ChemiCloud 78ms in New York against 256ms from Singapore and 242ms from Tokyo; ScalaHosting 38ms against 124ms and 117ms; Cloudways 54ms against 178ms and 168ms. Nothing about the server changed, only the distance. A visitor in Manila sits far from New York or Frankfurt, so a server in Singapore, or the nearest Asian location a host offers, removes most of that delay.
A CDN helps with images, scripts and cached pages, but it cannot answer what only the server can: contact forms, carts, checkouts, searches and your own admin area. So the order of choices is: a host with a location near the Philippines, then a plan that stays fast under load, then a CDN on top.
Which Host Fits Your Philippine Site
| Your site | Our pick | Why | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business site, blog or portfolio | ChemiCloud in Singapore | 0 failed requests, cPanel, email and backups included | $2.95/mo |
| Online store or booking site | ScalaHosting Entry Cloud | 58ms with 100 users, email included | $14.95/mo |
| Growing site, no contract | Cloudways in Singapore | 86ms with 100 users, resize any time | $14.00/mo |
| Lowest bill, paid in pesos | Hostinger | Peso price list; locations in Malaysia, Indonesia and India | ₱109/mo |
What We Have Not Tested Yet
- Any measurement from the Philippines. Our measuring locations stop at Singapore, Tokyo and Mumbai, and our test servers sat in New York or Frankfurt.
- Singapore servers. A host's Singapore location can run on different hardware from the server we tested.
- Philippine-based hosts. We have no benchmark of any host with a data center in the Philippines, and Exabytes' Philippine site could not be read when we checked.
- Hosting.com Pro. We benchmarked Turbo Boost, the plan it replaced.
What I Would Choose
For an everyday Philippine website I would take ChemiCloud Pro in Singapore: it held up under load without a failed request, it includes email and backups, and it is the cheapest managed host with a Singapore location over six years. For a store or booking site, ScalaHosting Entry Cloud, after confirming Singapore for my plan; for a site I expected to grow fast, a Cloudways server on DigitalOcean Singapore. If paying in pesos matters most, Hostinger, with its nearest Asian location picked in the dashboard. Whatever the host, choose the location nearest your visitors when you order.
Web Hosting in the Philippines: FAQ
What is the best web hosting in the Philippines?
ChemiCloud Pro for most Philippine websites: you can place the site in Singapore, it includes cPanel, email accounts and daily backups, and on our benchmark it answered in 210ms with 100 concurrent users without a failed request. Six years cost $752. ScalaHosting Entry Cloud was the fastest plan in this comparison, Cloudways suits a site that needs room to grow, and Hostinger is the low-cost choice that bills in pesos.
Is there a web host with servers in the Philippines?
None of the hosts we benchmarked lists a location in the Philippines on its own pages. The nearest they offer is Singapore: ChemiCloud, ScalaHosting, Cloudways (on DigitalOcean), DigitalOcean, FastComet and hosting.com all list it. Hostinger lists India, Indonesia and Malaysia for its web hosting in Asia. ChemiCloud also lists Seoul, and FastComet lists Tokyo.
Did you test these hosts from the Philippines?
No. Our test sites sat on servers in New York or Frankfurt, and we measured them from 10 locations, the nearest to the Philippines being Singapore and Tokyo. The load and uptime results describe each host's platform; they are not Manila measurements. When you order, choose the host's Singapore location, or the nearest one it offers.
Can I pay for web hosting in pesos or with GCash?
Hostinger's Philippine site prices its plans in pesos, and its Philippine payments page shows a GCash logo among its e-wallets, next to PayPal and cards. Check the payment options at checkout before you buy. ChemiCloud, ScalaHosting and Cloudways price their plans in US dollars, so a peso card is charged in dollars.
Is Hostinger good for Philippine websites?
For a small site on a budget, yes, with one thing to check. Hostinger's Premium plan is ₱109/mo on a 48-month term and renews at ₱309/mo, and its web hosting locations in Asia are India, Indonesia and Malaysia, not Singapore. On our benchmark it was slower under load than the top three, 520ms with 100 concurrent users, with 0.8% of requests failed over the full ramp.
Do I need a server near the Philippines?
If most of your visitors are in the Philippines, yes. On our benchmark the same server answered in 78ms near home, 256ms from Singapore and 242ms from Tokyo. Only the distance changed. That delay applies to every page a cache cannot serve: contact forms, carts, checkouts, searches and your own admin area.