As an important market in Southeast Asia, the Philippines is becoming one of the preferred nodes for more and more companies to deploy overseas. In order to meet the local access stability and content compliance requirements of the business, the demand for renting cloud servers in the Philippines has surged. As the "facade" of the server connecting to the user's network, whether the IP address is a "native Philippine IP" directly affects access latency, CDN scheduling, SEO weight and even platform account compliance.
The so-called native IP refers to an IP address that belongs to a country or region when it is allocated, and is authorized by the country's Internet registration management agency to be held and used by local network service providers. This type of IP has a clear geographical affiliation and is displayed as the Philippines in the global IP geographic database. At the same time, it also has many advantages, such as low-latency access to local users, and the user access path will not detour through other countries. The platform has high recognition, and local App platforms, financial institutions, and social platforms are regarded as "real" Philippine user sources, which is conducive to SEO and localization, and avoids being banned or misjudged due to cross-border IP.
The IP addresses of Philippine cloud servers can be mainly divided into the following three categories:
1. Native Philippine IP
The AS number address segment provided by the local operator, the IP address is attributed to the Philippines in the database, the link path is short, there is no international hop count, and the access is stable. The advantages are fast access speed, high platform credibility, suitable for content sites, local apps, SEO promotion, and account registration services.
2. Non-native Philippine IP (BGP relay IP)
This type of IP is marked as the Philippines region through BGP broadcast or IP Anycast, but is actually provided by computer rooms in Singapore, Hong Kong and other countries through network relay. Although this type of IP is displayed as "Philippines" in the IP library, the latency is high, the access link is detoured, and some local content platforms and payment systems will identify it as an "abnormal address".
3. Overseas IP disguised as Philippines
Some low-cost VPS or virtual servers use IPs from the United States or other Asian countries to return Philippine content traffic through means. This method is extremely risky and is often identified as a proxy or abnormal traffic source.
How to identify whether the Philippine cloud server is a native IP?
Use IP geolocation tools to check whether the IP belongs to the Philippines? Check whether the ASN is a local AS number?
Perform Ping and Traceroute tests to see if the local China broadband Ping value for the target IP is stable at 60~100ms;
Use the tracert command to check whether the number of hops is too many and whether it goes through Singapore and Hong Kong;
Use the route tracking tool to check whether the BGP route propagation path corresponding to the IP comes from the local AS segment of the Philippines;
Check whether the IP has been included in the record of GFW. If the IP is disguised as an overseas relay segment, it may be blocked by mistake or cause access anomalies;
Verify the access performance of local services, log in to the local social platform or e-commerce in the Philippines, and test whether it is recognized as a local login;
Not all cloud servers marked "Philippines" have real native Philippine IPs. For application scenarios such as connecting to local users, optimizing access performance, and ensuring account security and SEO weight, native IP is an indispensable key resource. When choosing a Philippine node cloud service, users should use IP geography tools, network routing analysis, AS number confirmation and other means to comprehensively judge and reject false labeling and relay line services.
The guarantee of native IP not only improves business performance, but also is the basic compliance threshold for enterprises to enter the Philippine market. Only by deeply understanding the nature and usage logic of native IP can we avoid risks in selection and deployment and establish a stable, reliable and compliant overseas cloud infrastructure environment.
