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Ping time’s are generally not ‘excellent’ from Australia. They’re on-par, or worse than hosts located in the US.
The reasoning is that most ISP’s in AU have cheaper transit via the US rather than SE Asia, so your traffic to the Singapore region gets hauled via west coast US and onto Asia from there.
This.
Internet traffic routing is based on cost not distance. You’d be surprised how much traffic is routed through the US.
just from ssh, i’ve found that the typing lag is no different with a droplet hosted in san franciso and a droplet hosted in singapore, sadly.
though of course, you may have had a different experience.
its not all about ping times, some customers require data (by law) to be hosted in Australia
it sin’t too bad on the rare occasions when the SeWeMe cable is not broken.
I don’t agree about excellent ping times. Typical latency to SGP1 is approx 260ms, while SF is 180ms, so no signups until they have something in Australia
I have to agree with this, I’m seeing ping times of 180-200ms with singapore, while websites hosted on TPP or Cloudflare (Melbourne, AU) have ping times of 10-50ms.
For those who want DigitalOcean in Australia, please make sure to vote here:
https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3619335-i-know-they-cost-a-fortune-but-i-would-love-an-au
That’s the official channel to ask for improvements.
Because it is five years later today since this thread started, and I still want an Australian server, I went looking and found Vultr, they offer a Sydney server and it seems fast: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8133563
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Droplets are great, AWS and Azure are a little painful getting up quick vs DO. But government data sovereignty and ping times.. DO will just be my test servers until you get an Australian Data Center. We have a large educated population and would use DO at a higher rate than say asia per capita (hoping DO reads this).
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We were considering migrating our applications to Digital Ocean for various reasons, from AWS. Although The ping times to AWS infrastructure within Oz is below 100ms. Digital Oceans closest warehouse is Singapore with 120ms+ response times.
wondering when will DO open its Australian shop?
+1 please yes AU/NZ datacenter
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No Australia? Oh well I’ll move on then.
You Really Really need to provide these details up front. It leaves a really bad taste in the mouth to be forced to sign up just to find you don’t even service our area.
Come on DO. About time to make this happen.
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2019 and still no AUS data centre!
Any updates its 2019 and I still can’t see a AUS Data Centre
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Literally five years later (as at today) and still no Aus/NZ offering? I would really like to use an Australian sided server if available for my State & Local government tasks. I am legally bound to keep files/services on Australian soil, so that rules out my use of DO for anything other than fast real-world testing. What would it take for DO to make this happen?