HostGrap's new Kurunegala data centre is live in beta: 8 to 10 ms ping on Sri Lankan fibre, a 2 Gbps SLT uplink and backup power. Plans open 1 December 2026.
HostGrap's new data centre in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka is now live in beta. In our tests over fibre connections in Sri Lanka, the ping to it is 8 to 10 ms, it connects to the internet through a 2 Gbps uplink from SLT, and it runs on backup power when the mains supply drops. cPanel hosting plans on these Sri Lanka servers open to everyone on 1 December 2026, from LKR 260 a month.
The data centre is in Kurunegala, in Sri Lanka's North Western Province. It is our first location inside Sri Lanka, alongside the servers we already run in Europe and Singapore. Hosting a website here means it sits close to the people in Sri Lanka who visit it, so their requests travel a much shorter distance than they would to a server in another country.
When we tested it from fibre connections in Sri Lanka, the ping was between 8 and 10 milliseconds. Ping is the time a request takes to reach the server and come back, and a lower number means a page can start loading sooner. The difference is easiest to feel on pages that make many small requests, such as online shop checkouts, WordPress admin screens and apps that call an API. Your own result will depend on your internet provider and connection, so treat these numbers as what we measured rather than a promise for every visitor.
The server connects to the internet through a 2 Gbps uplink, and our internet provider for the data centre is SLT. The site also has backup power, so the server keeps running when the mains electricity goes off, which matters in a country where planned and unplanned power cuts still happen.
Right now the Kurunegala data centre runs one server. During the beta we are checking how the server, the network and the backup power behave under real conditions before we open the Sri Lanka plans to everyone. That is why the plans show as coming soon on our cPanel hosting page until 1 December 2026.
The Sri Lanka cPanel hosting plans open on 1 December 2026. There are four of them, from SL Lite to SL Max, starting at LKR 260 a month with 1 GB to 40 GB of NVMe storage. They come with the same features as our other locations: cPanel, the LiteSpeed web server, free SSL, daily and weekly backups, Imunify360 security and free website migration. You can compare every plan on the cPanel hosting page.
Choose the location closest to most of the people who visit your website. If most of your visitors are in Sri Lanka, such as customers of a local shop, a school, a hotel or a business with a .lk domain, the Kurunegala servers will usually give them the quickest response. Singapore suits visitors across Asia Pacific and Oceania, and Europe suits visitors in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Every location has the same features and the same support, so the choice is only about where your visitors are.
Yes. Moving from another hosting company is free, and our team copies your website files, databases, email accounts and cPanel settings, then checks that everything works before you switch. If you already host with HostGrap in Europe or Singapore, contact us once the Sri Lanka plans open and we will help you move.
If you have a question about the new data centre, ask HostGrap AI on live chat or WhatsApp at any hour, or reach our support team during support hours.
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