GLWS · San Jose / United States
A second west-coast choice alongside Los Angeles and Seattle. If your workload makes many internal requests, keep your database and application servers close together.
Where it is and who it suits.
LOCATION
Coordinates mark the city centre.
FACILITY
Where your servers in San Jose run.
Equinix
A two-storey Equinix facility in south San Jose, in the Silicon Valley market.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · View larger map (opens in a new tab) · 37.2419, -121.7816
Two things to think through.
A development environment can alternate between quiet periods and build, test or import jobs. Consider the supporting services and temporary storage when comparing San Jose with another western US location. A small interactive application and a busy build worker may need different resource allocations.
Record where administrators, collaborators and application dependencies connect from. San Jose, Los Angeles and Seattle offer different geographic reference points within the west coast. Test the workflows the team actually uses rather than choosing a city from familiarity alone.
Distances from San Jose to the closest GLWS locations.
United States
About 490 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 4.9 ms.
United States
About 940 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 9.4 ms.
United States
About 1,140 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 11 ms.
United States
About 2,330 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 23 ms.
Distances are straight-line between city centres. The minimum round trip assumes light in fibre at about 200,000 km a second and a straight cable. Real routes are longer, so always test from your own audience. For a second site that survives a regional outage, Dublin is about 8,190 km from San Jose.
A nearby server is only one part of your application.
Compare the route from the audience networks you expect to serve. Test real requests, not only a location label.
Count remote APIs, databases, sign-in providers and backup destinations when you plan.
Write down how data is restored and who can do it. A copy in another location only helps if you can recover from it.
Pick a product, then choose San Jose in the configurator.
KVM virtual servers for websites, applications and development.
Whole machines, with regional options.
Rack space, power and connectivity for your own hardware.
Quick answers before you choose.
Servers in San Jose run at Equinix SV5, 9 Great Oaks Boulevard, San Jose, CA 95119, USA.
Yes, for any product that offers this location. Your choice is saved with your configuration.
Test response times and throughput from representative audience networks. Include application dependencies and measure during periods relevant to your users.
Compare data handling, resource availability, backup arrangements and the practical process for recovery or on-site work.
Other locations in the same region.
United States / LAX
Users on the US west coast and around the Pacific.
United States / SEA
Pacific Northwest users, or a replica away from Los Angeles and San Jose.
United States / SLC
Inland western US users and compute-heavy workloads.