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SSD Cloud VPS Plans

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LocationServer location
Cloud VPS 4
Starter sites, dev and staging
$20.71/mo

$20.71 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

Renews at $20.71 every month

CPU4 vCPU
RAM8 GB RAM
Storage100 GB SSD
BandwidthUnlimited (200 Mbit/s port)
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Cloud VPS 6
Growing sites and small apps
$28.08/mo

$28.08 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

Renews at $28.08 every month

CPU6 vCPU
RAM12 GB RAM
Storage200 GB SSD
BandwidthUnlimited (300 Mbit/s port)
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Cloud VPS 8Our pick
Busy stores, APIs and databases
$51.32/mo

$51.32 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

Renews at $51.32 every month

CPU8 vCPU
RAM24 GB RAM
Storage300 GB SSD
BandwidthUnlimited (600 Mbit/s port)
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Cloud VPS 12
Heavy apps and many projects
$90.15/mo

$90.15 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

Renews at $90.15 every month

CPU12 vCPU
RAM48 GB RAM
Storage400 GB SSD
BandwidthUnlimited (800 Mbit/s port)
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Cloud VPS 16
Large workloads and resellers
$132.63/mo

$132.63 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

Renews at $132.63 every month

CPU16 vCPU
RAM64 GB RAM
Storage500 GB SSD
BandwidthUnlimited (1 Gbit/s port)
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Cloud VPS 18
Maximum memory for big stacks
$174.69/mo

$174.69 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

Renews at $174.69 every month

CPU18 vCPU
RAM96 GB RAM
Storage600 GB SSD
BandwidthUnlimited (1 Gbit/s port)
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Full root access, snapshots and DDoS protection on every plan, delivered within 2–3 days. Windows Server, daily backups and a bigger disk can be added at checkout. Prices are in USD. Any applicable taxes are shown at checkout.

Distance is the whole argument for a server in Australia

Conceptual Sydney hosting illustration showing local server connections and a longer overseas route

Most of the world's websites are hosted in Europe, North America or Asia, which is a long way from Sydney. Every request from an Australian visitor to a server on another continent has to cross a great deal of ocean, and distance and the number of network hops both affect response time. A server in the same country or region as your visitors usually responds faster than one on another continent. For Australia that gap is bigger than for most places, which is why an Australian VPS is easier to justify than a local server would be in Germany. If you are weighing Australia VPS hosting against a cheaper server in the US or elsewhere, that distance is the thing to price in.

We are not going to put a number on it. Real figures depend on the visitor's internet provider and the route on the day. But you can feel the difference on pages that make many small requests: a shop with dozens of product images, a dashboard that polls the server every few seconds, a login form that talks to an API before it lets anybody in. Those are the pages that benefit when the server sits in Sydney, Australia's biggest city.

A CDN helps with static files, and it is worth adding to any busy site. It cannot make a dynamic request cheaper, though. The origin still answers searches, carts and API calls, so if your customers are Australian and your origin is in another hemisphere, the slow part stays slow.

This page is for people with a clear Australian audience, wherever they are based themselves: a business selling into Australia, an agency with Australian clients, a SaaS product for Australian and New Zealand customers, or a team that needs a development server near its own staff in the region. If you are mostly serving people elsewhere, another of our locations will probably suit you better, and the data centers page shows them all.

The price in the plan cards above is live for the data center you choose. It may include a location surcharge for Sydney, and taxes, where they apply, are added at checkout. SSD VPS is delivered within 2-3 days.

Sydney time, daylight saving and working hours with the US

Time zones matter more than people expect when a server and its owner are far apart, and Sydney has a wrinkle: its daylight saving runs in the opposite half of the year to ours. Sydney is UTC+10, or UTC+11 during daylight saving, which runs roughly from October to April. US Eastern time is UTC-4 in summer and UTC-5 in winter. That means Sydney is 14 hours ahead of the East Coast around June, 16 hours ahead around December, and 15 hours ahead for a few weeks in March, April, October and November, when only one side has changed its clocks.

Working hours compared
Whose dayLocal hoursConverted (around June)Converted (around December)
US team (Eastern time)09:00 to 18:00 ET23:00 to 08:00 in Sydney01:00 to 10:00 in Sydney
Australian customers09:00 to 17:00 in Sydney19:00 to 03:00 ET, the evening before17:00 to 01:00 ET, the evening before

So the overlap is small or missing: an East Coast evening meets a Sydney morning, and West Coast teams, three hours behind Eastern, get a few hours of afternoon overlap at most. If you are a US developer serving Australian customers, expect their working day to start around the end of yours. The upside is that Sydney's quiet overnight hours fall inside the US working day, which makes maintenance windows easy to staff.

What about support?

Our support is available 24/7 by live chat, email and ticket, so you are never waiting for a particular shift to begin. The overlap question is really about your own people. Decide who is on call during the Sydney business day, and write that down before the first incident.

Daylight saving and your cron jobs

The easiest way to avoid clock confusion is to keep the server on UTC. Scheduled jobs then run at the same moment all year, and you convert for humans in the application. If you really want local time, remember that a job set for 02:30 may run twice or not at all on the night the clocks change.

Why an Australian server pays off in practice

Specific reasons we hear from customers, not a generic checklist

Close to your customers

Visitors in Sydney and the surrounding region reach a server on their own side of the ocean instead of one in another hemisphere.

Ready for trading peaks

Plan capacity for the Australian end of financial year on 30 June and Boxing Day sales, and order early because delivery takes 2-3 days.

Root access for your stack

Run Node.js, Python, PHP or Go under your own systemd services, with any database you like and no restrictions on packages.

Around-the-clock support

The team answers at any hour, which covers the awkward gap between the US workday and the Sydney business day.

Snapshots before changes

Take a snapshot ahead of every upgrade and release, and keep real backups on a second machine as well.

Trading peaks and what people actually host in Sydney

Australian traffic has a calendar of its own. Two dates dominate the shop owners we talk to: the end of the Australian financial year on 30 June, when discounting and last-minute purchasing collide, and Boxing Day, when shoppers hunt for bargains. Those are the days when a store that is fine on a quiet Tuesday finds out how much headroom it really has. Seasonal pushes are easier to survive when you have a tested plan and a snapshot to return to.

Retail and online shops

A WooCommerce or custom-built store with steady orders belongs on Cloud VPS 8 or above. Memory goes first: 24 GB gives the database room to cache and the PHP workers room to breathe. Run a load test a week before a sale, and remember that a CDN trims image traffic but not the checkout itself.

Agencies and local service businesses

An agency with a dozen Australian client websites can start on Cloud VPS 8 or 12, with every client in a separate system account. It is a reasonable home for clients who want VPS hosting Australia based, without paying for a dedicated machine.

Business applications

Booking systems, quoting tools, small CRMs and internal portals fit on Cloud VPS 6. They are not heavy, but their users are in Australian office hours, so a server that answers promptly makes the whole tool feel better.

Teams working across time zones

A shared development or staging server for engineers in Sydney and the US fits on Cloud VPS 4 or 6. Keep deployment automated so a release never depends on whoever happens to be awake.

Services that must stay up while you sleep

A bot, a webhook receiver, a scheduler. The systemd example further down shows how to make sure they restart themselves.

Choosing a Cloud VPS size for Sydney: a short ladder

Work up from the smallest plan and stop when the next step stops making sense. The SSD VPS Australia range has six sizes, and storage on every plan is SSD. Each plan includes full root access, snapshots, DDoS protection and traffic that is unlimited subject to fair use.

  1. Cloud VPS 4 (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, upgradable, 200 Mbit/s port). Starter sites, development and staging. If you only need to try your code in Australia first, begin here.
  2. Cloud VPS 6 (6 vCPU, 12 GB, 200 GB, 300 Mbit/s). Growing sites and small apps. The first plan where a web server and a modest database coexist without fighting.
  3. Cloud VPS 8 (8 vCPU, 24 GB, 300 GB, 600 Mbit/s). Busy stores, APIs and databases. This is where we would put a business that depends on the site for its income.
  4. Cloud VPS 12 (12 vCPU, 48 GB, 400 GB, 800 Mbit/s). Heavy apps and many projects. Good for agencies and for databases that like a large buffer.
  5. Cloud VPS 16 (16 vCPU, 64 GB, 500 GB, 1 Gbit/s). Large workloads and resellers.
  6. Cloud VPS 18 (18 vCPU, 96 GB, 600 GB, 1 Gbit/s). Maximum memory for big stacks.

Two honest limits. A single VPS is a single machine, and if its host has a problem, everything on it goes with it. If your business cannot tolerate that, plan a second server and a tested restore. And if you outgrow even Cloud VPS 18, the dedicated servers in Sydney give you a whole physical machine to yourself.

Extras you can add at checkout are Windows Server, daily backups and a bigger disk. The base plans leave daily backups out, so decide on that before you order, not after.

SSD here, NVMe VPS and other options in Sydney

Detailed conceptual SSD and NVMe illustration with exposed components and glass display platforms

This page is for the SSD range, so storage is SSD rather than NVMe. We also run an NVMe range in Sydney, and it is a fair alternative worth looking at on its own page: NVMe VPS in Australia. Its four plans run from NVMe VPS S (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe) up to NVMe VPS XL (8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB NVMe), with port speeds from 500 Mbps to 3 Gbps.

The rule of thumb is simple. If your workload fits inside those four sizes and leans on the disk, such as a busy database or a lot of small-file reads, look at NVMe. If you need more memory or disk than XL offers, the SSD plans on this page reach 96 GB of RAM and 600 GB of disk. Neither is better in general. They answer different problems.

Running your app as a service: systemd, logrotate and an rsync backup

A server on the other side of the world is easy to forget about, which is exactly why it should look after itself. Here are three pieces we would set up before going to bed on day one. Examples assume Debian or Ubuntu and a Node.js application, but the pattern works for any language.

A systemd service

Create /etc/systemd/system/myapp.service:

[Unit]
Description=My application
After=network.target

[Service]
User=deploy
WorkingDirectory=/srv/myapp
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node server.js
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then run sudo systemctl daemon-reload, sudo systemctl enable myapp and sudo systemctl start myapp. If the process dies, systemd brings it back, and journalctl -u myapp shows what it said before it went.

logrotate so logs do not fill the disk

Create /etc/logrotate.d/myapp:

/var/log/myapp/*.log {
    weekly
    rotate 8
    compress
    missingok
    notifempty
}

A nightly copy to a second location

A snapshot lives with the server it was taken from, so it will not save you from losing the machine. Keep a copy somewhere else, such as a server in another city or your office. Save this as /usr/local/bin/nightly-backup.sh:

#!/bin/sh
STAMP=$(date +%F)
mysqldump --single-transaction myapp | gzip > /var/backups/myapp-$STAMP.sql.gz
rsync -az -e ssh /var/backups/ [email protected]:/srv/backups/sydney/
rsync -az -e ssh /srv/myapp/uploads/ [email protected]:/srv/backups/uploads/
find /var/backups -name 'myapp-*.sql.gz' -mtime +14 -delete

Schedule it with a crontab line such as 30 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/nightly-backup.sh, give mysqldump its credentials through a protected options file, and restore one backup into a spare database to prove it works. If you would rather not run this yourself, daily backups are an option at checkout.

Moving your site to a Sydney VPS

If your site currently runs in the US, Europe or elsewhere in Asia, moving it to Sydney is mostly a matter of order and nerve. Because delivery takes 2-3 days, you can prepare while you wait.

Begin with an inventory. List every moving part: web server, application runtime and version, database, scheduled jobs, mail settings, TLS certificates and third-party integrations such as payment gateways that may allowlist your server address. Missing one of those is the usual reason for a failed cutover.

Next, build the new server from that list and copy a first version of the data across. Lower your DNS TTL a few days before the switch. On the night, put the old site in maintenance mode, take a final database dump, restore it in Sydney, sync the last uploaded files and update DNS. Keep the old server running for a week so you can roll back by pointing DNS at it again.

Test from an Australian vantage point if you can. Ask a colleague or client in Australia to load key pages, log in, and place a test order. Compare how it feels with the old setup, because the whole reason you moved was to improve it for those visitors. If something is slower, it is more likely a database query or an unoptimized image than the server location, and it is better to find that out now.

The Privacy Act and your Australian server

This is general information, not legal advice, so please check with your own adviser. Australia's Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles cover how personal information is collected, used and disclosed. They include rules on disclosing personal information overseas, and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme sets out what to do when a breach is likely to cause serious harm.

Putting a server in Sydney does not by itself make a business compliant. What matters is how you treat the information: what you collect, who sees it, what you tell people and how you respond when something goes wrong. A local server can make conversations with Australian clients easier, and can simplify questions about where data sits, but it is one small input.

Think about where copies travel. If your backup script sends customer records to a server in another country, such as your own office in the US, or you use an analytics or support tool that stores data abroad, that may be the kind of overseas disclosure the Privacy Principles talk about. That is a question for your adviser rather than for us. A useful habit is to keep a short list of every place personal data goes, because the same list helps you answer customer questions and respond quickly if you ever need to notify anyone of a breach.

Which plan is right for me?

Pick the line that fits what you need. These are the same plans and live prices as the cards above.

  • Starter sites, dev and staging

    Cloud VPS 4

    4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB SSD

    $20.71/mo

    $20.71 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

    Choose Cloud VPS 4

  • Growing sites and small apps

    Cloud VPS 6

    6 vCPU · 12 GB RAM · 200 GB SSD

    $28.08/mo

    $28.08 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

    Choose Cloud VPS 6

  • Busy stores, APIs and databases

    Cloud VPS 8

    8 vCPU · 24 GB RAM · 300 GB SSD

    $51.32/mo

    $51.32 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

    Choose Cloud VPS 8

  • Heavy apps and many projects

    Cloud VPS 12

    12 vCPU · 48 GB RAM · 400 GB SSD

    $90.15/mo

    $90.15 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

    Choose Cloud VPS 12

  • Large workloads and resellers

    Cloud VPS 16

    16 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 500 GB SSD

    $132.63/mo

    $132.63 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

    Choose Cloud VPS 16

  • Maximum memory for big stacks

    Cloud VPS 18

    18 vCPU · 96 GB RAM · 600 GB SSD

    $174.69/mo

    $174.69 + 4.96% processing fee billed today for 1 month

    Choose Cloud VPS 18

Prices for Australia. Other billing terms and server locations are on the plan cards.

Got Questions?

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers about hosting a VPS in Sydney

Not strictly, a site works from anywhere. But a server in the same country as your visitors usually responds faster than one on another continent, and Australia is far from most hosting regions, including the US. If speed matters to your customers, local is worth it.
Sydney is UTC+10, or UTC+11 during daylight saving, roughly October to April. US Eastern is UTC-4 in summer and UTC-5 in winter. So Sydney is 14 hours ahead around June, 16 hours ahead around December, and 15 hours ahead for a few weeks in between.
It can, if the server runs on local time. A job set for 02:30 may skip or repeat when the clocks change. The simplest fix is to run the server on UTC and do your local-time conversion in the application.
For a shop with real order volume, Cloud VPS 8 or above is a sensible start, because the 24 GB of RAM gives the database room. Order a few days early, since delivery takes 2-3 days, and load-test beforehand.
If your workload leans heavily on the disk and fits within 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM and 200 GB, look at the NVMe range in Sydney. If you need more memory or storage than that, this SSD range goes up to 96 GB of RAM and 600 GB.
Yes, if you order early enough. SSD VPS is delivered within 2-3 days, so do not leave it until the week itself. Allow time for setup, a test and a backup before the sale begins.
Snapshots stay with the server, so also copy data elsewhere. A nightly mysqldump plus rsync to a second server in another city is simple and reliable. Daily backups are also an option at checkout, if you would rather not script it.
Probably more than a server on another continent would, because New Zealand is much closer to Sydney than to most hosting regions. Measure rather than assume, though, and add a CDN for static files if your audience is spread out.
No. The Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles apply to how you handle personal information, not just where the server is. This is general information, not legal advice, so please check with your own adviser.
It might. The Privacy Principles include rules on disclosing personal information overseas, so where copies go is worth checking. We cannot give legal advice, so ask your own adviser before you set the backup up.
Support runs 24/7 by live chat, email and ticket, so there is no shift to wait for. Your own team's overlap with Sydney is the harder part, and from the US it is small or missing, so plan on-call cover.
Cloud VPS 18 is the largest SSD plan, with 18 vCPU, 96 GB of RAM and 600 GB of SSD. Beyond that, consider splitting services over two servers, or a dedicated server in Sydney, which gives you a whole physical machine.
A VPS is fine for small community servers. Busy or CPU-hungry games often do better on a dedicated machine, and the Sydney dedicated range includes plans aimed at gaming. Start with a VPS if you are testing demand.

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