Hosting in Kolkata, from Delhi
Kolkata is the eastern end of the domestic backbone and its own cable landing point, so international routes are strong and the domestic leg to Delhi is the longer one. Salt Lake Sector V teams serving an all-India audience usually take DEL-01 and let the CDN handle the rest.
What Kolkata traffic actually does
Route distances, and the round trip they imply on Indian backbone routes. Typical figures, not a measurement from your ISP — run your own ping before you decide anything on them.
| From | To | Route distance | Typical RTT | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kolkata | Getwebup Delhi (DEL-01) | 1500 km | 34–48 ms | Closest region — pick this one |
| Kolkata | Mumbai (MUM-01) | — | Higher | Only if your audience is concentrated there |
| Kolkata | Singapore | — | ~60–90 ms | The usual alternative, and the reason this page exists |
| Kolkata | US East | — | ~230–280 ms | Where a lot of cheap shared hosting still lives |
Latency is a floor, not a speed. Once you are inside India the round trip stops being the thing that makes a page feel slow — NVMe, LiteSpeed and a cache do the rest, and those are the same on every region.
What Kolkata businesses take
One site or fifteen, on LiteSpeed and NVMe with free SSL and a free migration. The usual starting point for a Kolkata agency's client sites.
From $0.51/mo KVM VPS & VDSFull root and 5 TB of transfer a month (10 TB on a VDS), on vCPU with a VPS or physical CPU cores with a VDS, usually up in a minute or two. The usual fit for IT services, jute and tea exports, regional publishing.
From $4.69/mo Bare metal & private cloudSingle and dual-socket Xeon, your own VLANs, and a rack diagram you can show an auditor. Data stays in Delhi.
From $94.57/moAlso serving Howrah, Salt Lake Sector V, Durgapur from the same region — the routes are close enough that the numbers above hold across the whole cluster.
What people in Kolkata actually ask us
Kolkata is its own cable landing point, so a business here often has better international connectivity than domestic. If your audience is in the east, the honest comparison is not Delhi against Mumbai but our Delhi region against a Singapore one, and the Indian invoice usually settles it.
Why an Indian region rather than a cheaper foreign one
Billed in rupees with a GST invoice carrying our GSTIN, so a West Bengal business can claim input credit. A dollar invoice from an offshore host cannot do that, and the card forex markup is on top.
The NOC runs on IST. A ticket raised from Kolkata at 11am is answered at 11am, not when a US shift comes online.
Everything sits in Delhi, which is the short answer to the data-residency question on most Indian enterprise and government procurement forms.