SoftLayer就是我们常说的SL机房，而我标题所写的亚洲机房主要包括香港SL、新加坡SL和日本SL三个，这三个里面国内用户用香港SL的最多。上个月底的时候，使用中国电信宽带的用户就应该感受到了香港SL机房VPS的ping值显著升高，线路绕道欧美，联通和移动宽带用户无明显影响。
因为博客也介绍了不少使用香港SL机房的主机商信息，相信不少读者朋友也有入手，所以虽然过了一周多时间，还是专门开个文章来说明下这个线路的变化。SoftLayer这个线路一换，害死一大批IDC，毕竟IDC和用户没有能力左右他们的决定，所以提醒大家，如果是希望电信访问速度的，这个SoftLayer香港、新加坡和日本目前都已经不建议入手了；当然如果你是联通或者移动访问尽可无视，短期内机房恢复到原来直连中国线路不太可能。以下引用非官方消息：
SoftLayer continuously analyses and evaluates the way in we deliver services to our customers in order to bring the best possible combination of performance and price in the market. In particular we have continued evaluating the connectivity services we provide from our data centers in Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong into mainland China through Chinese providers and have continued to see that this service does not provide a good cost-benefit proposition for our customers given the current cost point of these connections. We have elected to discontinue the use of these direct circuits into mainland China effective immediately. We have begun moving traffic off these links from our Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo locations which may result in some customers in those locations noticing increased latency due to the traffic shift away from the direct circuits into circuits provided by other local vendors in region. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and / or your customers.