Shinjiru

What Shinjiru actually is

Shinjiru is a Malaysian hosting company that has been selling "offshore" hosting since 2000 — the corporate fact sheet states the founding year, and the pitch has stayed remarkably consistent across two decades: host your data outside your own country's jurisdiction, keep your identity out of public records, and pay with Bitcoin if you like. The catalog covers budget and "Strongbolt" shared hosting, NVMe KVM VPS, offshore dedicated servers, private email hosting, and domain registration through an ICANN-accredited registrar arm. Eight offshore data centers are claimed, with VPS locations listed as Bulgaria, Germany, the Netherlands, and Malaysia. In our view, Shinjiru belongs in the same conversation as other offshore specialists (FlokiNET, BlueAngelHost, WebCare24x7): a provider whose real product is jurisdiction and privacy posture, with conventional hosting underneath.

Two things distinguish the actual operation from the marketing. First, the company runs its own anti-DDoS network (100 Gbps claimed capacity, with 1 Gbps DDoS protection included on VPS plans) and its own support operation — 24/7, 50+ engineers claimed, phone/chat/ticket. Second, there is a visible anti-abuse discipline that privacy hosts are often accused of lacking: SMTP ports on VPS plans are closed by default and only opened after customer verification, and the Acceptable Use Policy explicitly prohibits phishing, fraud, spam, and criminal activity with account cancellation as the penalty. In our view, that combination — privacy for the customer, friction for the abuser — is the credible version of offshore hosting, and it is why we are willing to review this company at all. We would not recommend a host whose privacy pitch is indistinguishable from a bulletproof-hosting pitch; Shinjiru's AUP and closed-SMTP policy are the line between the two.

Pricing: what you really pay

Shinjiru's pricing is term-priced, and the term is the story. The headline VPS is the NVMe KVM "VPS Basic" at $11.90 per month on a 24-month commitment, stepping up to $12.90 (12 months), $13.90 (6 months), $14.50 (3 months), and $14.90 month-to-month — for 1 vCPU, 1 GB memory, 25 GB NVMe storage, one IP address, and 1 Gbps unmetered bandwidth. VPS Standard runs $16.90 to $20.90 per month across the same term ladder, VPS Pro $24.90 to $30.90, and a bundled VPS Standard plus control panel starts at $19.90 (24-month) rising to $23.90 (monthly). Add VIP managed support for $20 per month — half price when bought with the initial VPS — and you are in the $30-50 range for a managed 1 GB VPS.

Shared hosting is where the entry prices live: the budget Linux plan in Bulgaria starts at $3.95 per month on a 36-month term, with 24-month at $4.95, 12-month at $5.95, 6-month at $6.95, and 3-month at $7.95. That is the cheapest verified price in the catalog, and it is exactly the kind of number that needs its asterisk attached: $3.95 means paying three years up front; the honest monthly cost of trying the same plan is $7.95. Promo codes rotate on the front page (30%-off first-months offers and recurring dedicated discounts), so list prices are a ceiling rather than a floor — but we never count promotions in our comparison tables, because they expire.

How does the VPS pricing compare? At $14.90 month-to-month for 1 GB RAM and 25 GB NVMe, you are paying a clear premium over Hetzner Cloud or RackNerd for the same memory — call it the offshore premium. What that premium buys is the jurisdiction mix (Malaysia, Bulgaria, Germany, Netherlands), crypto payment, identity-minimizing registration, and unmetered 1 Gbps bandwidth. If none of those are on your requirements list, the numbers will not make sense to you, and that is the correct conclusion. If one of them is non-negotiable, the comparison set shrinks fast and Shinjiru's pricing sits in the normal band for it.

Performance & infrastructure

The hardware story is modern enough: NVMe storage, KVM virtualization with automated provisioning and anytime OS reinstall, multi-core Intel processors, and 1 Gbps unmetered ports on VPS plans, with a network upgrade to multiple 1 Gbps ports on Cisco gear advertised on the front page. The anti-DDoS network is in-house rather than resold — 100 Gbps of claimed capacity, with 1 Gbps filtering included per VPS plan — and enterprise-branded components (Dell, Cisco, Intel) are claimed throughout. Dedicated servers push to "99.99% uptime" claims with Intel platforms, and shared hosting carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee in the product overview.

We want to be precise about what is verified versus claimed here. The 8-datacenter figure, the 100 Gbps anti-DDoS capacity, the 40,000-websites-hosted number, and ISO9001 accreditation are all vendor claims on vendor pages; we did not independently verify them, and one marketing line on the budget page even promises "100% uptime," which no provider delivers literally. We have recorded the 99.9% shared-hosting guarantee as the SLA figure and flagged the conflicting 99.99%/100% marketing language in our notes. We ran no benchmarks of our own against Shinjiru hardware (our hands-on sysbench/fio/iperf3 runs cover a fixed list of cloud instances only — see our benchmarks), so performance statements are spec reading and editorial judgment. The judgment: for a privacy-oriented host at this price tier, NVMe plus KVM plus unmetered 1 Gbps is a respectable configuration, and the closed-SMTP default suggests the network is managed against abuse rather than left open.

The four VPS locations are worth thinking through carefully. Malaysia is the APAC anchor and the home jurisdiction; Bulgaria, Germany, and the Netherlands cover EU needs, with the Netherlands the usual pick for European latency and peering. There is no US location — deliberately, given the offshore positioning — and that is a feature or a deal-breaker depending on your audience.

Where it falls short

The marketing runs hot. "100% uptime" language on product pages, award badges stacked on the about page, promo codes plastered across the hero banner, and infrastructure claims (datacenter count, DDoS capacity, customer counts) that we cannot independently verify — all of it belongs to the sales-forward end of the hosting market, and it costs the company points on transparency in our rubric. Our database previously listed a $5 entry price; the verified cheapest price we found is $3.95 per month on a 36-month shared-hosting term, so that record has been corrected with the term caveat attached.

Then the support question. Our database flags support as slow; we could not verify response times in this pass, so treat that as an open question rather than a finding — but 24/7/365 claims from offshore hosts are worth testing during a refund window before you depend on them. VPS specs are thin on published detail (CPU models per plan are not broken out the way Server.pro or Hetzner publish them), IPv6 support is not stated on the pages we reviewed, and the privacy posture itself carries a cost: anonymous registration and crypto payment mean your recourse in a billing dispute is limited, and the same jurisdictions that protect you from foreign surveillance also make legal enforcement of your claims harder. Finally, DMCA-ignored positioning attracts a customer mix whose problems (attacks, spam, abuse complaints) can spill onto your IP neighborhood — the closed-SMTP policy mitigates one vector but not all of them.

Who should pick this

Our pick for Shinjiru: privacy-conscious operators who have a specific, legitimate reason to keep data outside their home jurisdiction — journalists, activists, privacy tools, media projects, and businesses with cross-border data concerns — and who value Malaysian or EU (Bulgaria/Germany/Netherlands) hosting with crypto payment and identity-minimizing signup. APAC-facing workloads that want a Malaysian anchor also fit, since most Western hosts have no Southeast Asian presence at all.

We would not pick it on raw price-performance alone (budget Western VPSes are cheaper per GB), for US-audience latency, or for anyone who needs contractual SLA teeth and verifiable infrastructure documentation. If you are here only for cheap hosting and can skip the privacy requirements, our VPS provider category has better value elsewhere.

Key takeaways

• Malaysian offshore specialist since 2000: eight claimed data centers, VPS locations in Malaysia, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Netherlands; ICANN-accredited registrar arm.
• Verified pricing: NVMe KVM VPS Basic $11.90/mo (24-month) to $14.90 (monthly) for 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB NVMe / 1 Gbps unmetered; shared hosting from $3.95/mo on a 36-month term ($7.95 month-to-month).
• Genuine anti-abuse discipline under the privacy pitch: AUP prohibits fraud/spam/phishing, and VPS SMTP ports stay closed until customer verification.
• In-house anti-DDoS network claimed at 100 Gbps; 1 Gbps filtering included per VPS plan; VIP managed support is $20/mo extra.
• Heavy marketing (100% uptime language, unverifiable infrastructure counts) and no US region; the offshore premium buys jurisdiction, not performance.

Sources

• https://shinjiru.com/
• https://www.shinjiru.com/company/about-us/
• https://www.shinjiru.com/offshore-web-hosting/virtual-private-server/
• https://www.shinjiru.com/offshore-web-hosting/budget-offshore-hosting/