Philippine Drupal hosting

We're shopping around for a web host to use in a new project, particularly one that understands Drupal 7 and its requirements. Am particularly concerned that although my Drupal site runs well on my local machine, it is almost impossibly slow on shared hosting environments.

Our team is currently trying a VPS host. (we purchased one month only to test deploy my site.) Unfortunately, it's still slow. And the current VPS host is not familiar with Drupal modules (such as Memcache and Varnish) that would supposedly help speed up the site.