Match the city to your Australian audience
Most Australian users are on the east coast, where Sydney performs well. If many users are in Perth or overseas, test those routes separately.
GLWS · Sydney / Australia
Sydney.
GLWS hosting close to your users.
Our Australian location. Sydney is the main choice for Australian audiences, and a good counterpart to Auckland for New Zealand and Oceania.
At a glance.
Where it is and who it suits.
LOCATION
Sydney, Australia
- Region
- Asia Pacific
- Country
- Australia
- Coordinates
- -33.87°, 151.21°
- Suits
- Australian users and Oceania traffic.
Coordinates mark the city centre.
FACILITY
GLWS facility in Sydney.
Where your servers in Sydney run.
Equinix
Equinix SY4
200 Bourke Road, Alexandria, NSW 2015, AustraliaA three-storey Equinix facility in Alexandria, close to Sydney's city centre.
- Colocation space
- 80,137 sq ft
- Construction
- Three-storey reinforced concrete
- Power
- N+1 redundancy
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · View larger map (opens in a new tab) · -33.9194, 151.1900
Is Sydney right for you?
Two things to think through.
Plan for long routes to the rest of the world
Australia is far from Europe and North America. If your services or data live elsewhere, measure the round trip before you decide.
Nearby locations.
Distances from Sydney to the closest GLWS locations.
Auckland
New Zealand
About 2,160 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 22 ms.
Singapore
Singapore
About 6,310 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 63 ms.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
About 7,380 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 74 ms.
Osaka
Japan
About 7,800 km away. Physical minimum round trip about 78 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, Singapore is about 6,310 km from Sydney.
Look at the whole request path.
A nearby server is only one part of your application.
Sydney 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 Sydney.
Pick a product, then choose Sydney 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 Sydney.
Quick answers before you choose.
Which facility is this?
Servers in Sydney run at Equinix SY4, 200 Bourke Road, Alexandria, NSW 2015, Australia.
Can I choose Sydney 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.
Nearby locations.
Other locations in the same region.
New Zealand / AKL
Auckland
New Zealand users and a presence in Oceania.
Oceania
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Singapore / SIN
Singapore
South-east Asian users and an Asia Pacific presence.
Asia
See this location →
Hong Kong / HKG
Hong Kong
Hong Kong and southern China users, and traffic across Southeast Asia.
Asia
See this location →