GLWS · Strasbourg / France

Strasbourg.
GLWS hosting close to your users.

Our French location. A continental European position can suit regional traffic, but measurements should decide which city works best for your users.

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FACILITY

GLWS facility in Strasbourg.

Where your servers in Strasbourg run.

OVHcloud

OVHcloud Strasbourg SBG5

9 Rue du Bassin de l'Industrie, 67000 Strasbourg, France

The newest building on OVHcloud's Strasbourg campus, on the banks of the Rhine, opened in 2022.

Opened: 2022 (SBG5)
Surface: 1,700 m²
Layout: 19 isolated rooms with masonry walls giving up to two hours of fire resistance
Capacity: About 16,000 servers
Power: Seven energy rooms and three battery rooms, housed outside the building
Fire safety: Gas extinguishing (APSAD R13) and VESDA smoke detection (APSAD R7)

Part of a wider OVHcloud campus built on a former Arcelor-Mittal site

Architectural illustration of a data centre in Strasbourg

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Is Strasbourg right for you?

Two things to think through.

Compare the audience on both sides of the application

A French location can be relevant to an application used by audiences in France and nearby countries. Strasbourg is one reference to compare with Frankfurt and other European locations. Record where visitors connect from and where the application retrieves its data.

Keep the database conversation in view

An application making frequent small database requests may depend more on the database path than on a large transfer rate. Compare the placement of the web and data layers together. Measure representative operations rather than using a download test as the only indicator.

Nearby locations.

Distances from Strasbourg to the closest GLWS locations.

Zurich

Switzerland

About 140 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 1.4 ms.

Frankfurt

Germany

About 180 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 1.8 ms.

Milan

Italy

About 360 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 3.6 ms.

Paris

France

About 400 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 4.0 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, Dubai is about 4,850 km from Strasbourg.

Look at the whole request path.

A nearby server is only one part of your application.

Strasbourg and your audience

Compare the route from the audience networks you expect to serve. Test real requests, not only a location label.

Dependencies and data

Count remote APIs, databases, sign-in providers and backup destinations when you plan.

Recovery across locations

Write down how data is restored and who can do it. A copy in another location only helps if you can recover from it.

GLWS VPS plans in Strasbourg.

Pick a product, then choose Strasbourg in the configurator.

Linux VPS

KVM virtual servers for websites, applications and development.

Dedicated servers

Whole machines, with regional options.

Colocation

Rack space, power and connectivity for your own hardware.

Questions about Strasbourg.

Quick answers before you choose.

Which facility is this?

Servers in Strasbourg run at OVHcloud Strasbourg SBG5, 9 Rue du Bassin de l'Industrie, 67000 Strasbourg, France.

Can I choose Strasbourg when I configure a plan?

Yes, for any product that offers this location. Your choice is saved with your configuration.

What should I measure?

Test response times and throughput from representative audience networks. Include application dependencies and measure during periods relevant to your users.

What else should I compare?

Compare data handling, resource availability, backup arrangements and the practical process for recovery or on-site work.