Hi all,

Given my research through the available content on this site, it seems to suggest that having to host my site based in Singapore, for a drupal installation I would most likely need a full root access which basically spells for vps hosting. Of course, I have also seen a couple of shared hosting providers which allow root access as well. However, I might be missing something here and I would like to seek your perspective of things.

My questions are:

1) Given for a newly startup do I really need a VPS hosting plan or is a shared hosting with SSH/ root access sufficient for me?

2) Do you guys recommend getting the server hosted on a local server or a overseas server given my main traffic will be from Singapore but I'm just worried about the reliability for the uptime.

3) Should I go for those Drupal hosting plans that catered for this specific CMS instead?

Thank you so much.