Hostwares runs your app in one of two places. The picker shows you both, with a real speed number and a real price, before you choose.
The short answer
Your visitors are in Bangladesh → pick Dhaka. Your visitors are elsewhere → pick France.
That is genuinely the whole rule. Everything below is why.
The speed number is measured from your browser, not ours
Most hosts show you a map. We show you a measurement.
The milliseconds beside each location are timed from the device you are sitting at, against a probe hostname unique to each server. In the screenshot above, taken on a Bangladeshi connection:
| Location | Response |
|---|---|
| Roubaix, France | 788 ms |
| Rajshahi, Bangladesh (BDIX) | 136 ms |
France is roughly six times further away in time. Every image, every API call, every page load pays that difference.
This matters more than it looks. A number measured from *our* server would be useless to you — it would tell you how far Dhaka is from Dhaka. The only number worth showing is the one from where your users actually are, so that is the one we show.
BDIX is why Dhaka is fast
The Dhaka server sits on BDIX, the Bangladesh Internet Exchange. Traffic between Bangladeshi networks stays inside the country instead of routing out to Singapore or Europe and back.
For a visitor on a local ISP that is the difference between a page that feels instant and one that feels like it is loading.
Dhaka costs 20% more, and we show it before you choose
Look at the badge on the Dhaka card: +20% · $0.40/mo.
Bandwidth and hardware inside Bangladesh cost more than in a European datacentre. Rather than hide that in a footnote or spring it on you at checkout, we put the percentage and the actual taka amount on the card before you pick.
Once you choose, every price on every following screen already includes it. The order summary says so out loud:
Includes 20% Rajshahi, Bangladesh surcharge
And the renewal is billed at the same rate you were quoted. The surcharge is baked into the price when you order, so your second month costs the same as your first.
What it actually costs
For a typical Lovable or Bolt app on the Micro pack:
| France | Dhaka | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $2.00 | $2.40 |
| Yearly (15% off) | $20.40 | $24.48 |
| Difference | — | 40 cents a month |
Forty cents a month for a page that loads six times closer to your customers. If your users are in Bangladesh, that is not a close call.
Questions
Can I change the location later? Not by flipping a switch — the app is physically provisioned in one datacentre. Open a ticket and we will move it for you.
What if the location I want is full? We tell you at checkout instead of quietly putting you somewhere else, and the confirmation offers the other location with its price so you can decide. We never silently relocate a region you have paid a surcharge for.
Does my database have to be in the same place? If you use ours, yes — we co-locate your app and its database on the same server so the connection between them never leaves the machine. If you bring your own Supabase, it stays wherever it already is.
My users are split between Bangladesh and abroad. Pick the side with more traffic, or where the paying customers are. A single server cannot be closest to everyone.