PART EVPS-NANOREV. D
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Nano
€1.90/mo
billed €22.80 oncesave 21% vs 6-month
- vCPU
- 1 × EPYC
- Memory
- 2 GB DDR5
- NVMe storage
- 25 GB NVMe
- Traffic
- 2 TB
- Port
- 1 Gbit/s
AU · Asia-Pacific
VPS MelbourneAustralia
A second Australian failure domain, on separate fibre from Sydney.
- Live since
- 2022
- Median RTT
- 4 ms
- Edge capacity
- 0.14 Tbit/s
- from
- €1.90/mo
FacilityAll systems operational
- Facility
- MEL1 — Port Melbourne
- Certification
- Tier III
- Carriers
- Vocus, Telstra
- Peering
- IX Australia VIC
- Test IP
- 203.0.127.10
- Stock
- In stock
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Melbourne · MEL1
Why Melbourne?
MEL1 is in Port Melbourne, down by the bay among the freight sheds. It is the only site we opened in 2022, the year European power tripled and we ate the difference rather than repricing anyone mid-term — which is roughly why there was only one. Vocus is the primary here, not Telstra, and IX Australia VIC is a different fabric from the Sydney one.
What it reaches
Victoria, Tasmania and the South Australian corner, plus a straight run up to Sydney. Vocus and IX Australia VIC reach the local networks directly; Telstra transit covers the households the exchange does not.
The trade-off
Melbourne is the smaller half of the Australian pair at 140 Gbit/s, and the trans-Pacific cables land in Sydney. Overseas traffic usually crosses the continent before it reaches you — nothing is lost on the way, it simply arrives later, and for anything latency-sensitive from abroad Sydney is the room.
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Fleet
Plans available in Melbourne
NVMe KVM instances in Melbourne, from €1.90 a month on a twelve-month term. Email address only, crypto accepted, live in under a minute.
TERM
Longer term, lower monthly rate
PART EVPS-MICROREV. D
II
Micro
€3.10/mo
billed €37.20 oncesave 21% vs 6-month
- vCPU
- 2 × EPYC
- Memory
- 4 GB DDR5
- NVMe storage
- 50 GB NVMe
- Traffic
- 4 TB
- Port
- 1 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-BASEMost chosen
III
Base
€5.50/mo
billed €66.00 oncesave 20% vs 6-month
- vCPU
- 4 × EPYC
- Memory
- 8 GB DDR5
- NVMe storage
- 100 GB NVMe
- Traffic
- 8 TB
- Port
- 2.5 Gbit/s
PART EVPS-WORKREV. D
IV
Work
€10.40/mo
billed €124.80 oncesave 19% vs 6-month
- vCPU
- 6 × EPYC
- Memory
- 16 GB DDR5
- NVMe storage
- 200 GB NVMe
- Traffic
- 12 TB
- Port
- 2.5 Gbit/s
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Edge latency
Latency from Melbourne
Modelled from great-circle distance between our own sites — not a probe measurement.
Sydney, AU9 ms
Singapore, SG51 ms
Hong Kong, HK61 ms
Osaka, JP64 ms
Tokyo, JP64 ms
Seoul, KR67 ms
Mumbai, IN77 ms
Santiago, CL87 ms
Hardware standard
- cpu
- AMD EPYC 9354P — Genoa, Zen 4, 3.25 GHz base / 3.80 GHz boost
- memory
- 384 GB DDR5-4800 ECC registered per host
- storage
- Samsung PM9A3 Gen4 NVMe, RAID-10, hot spare per chassis
- network
- Dual 25 GbE to separate leaf switches, LACP
- power
- A+B feeds, N+1 UPS, on-site diesel with 72 h fuel
- hypervisor
- KVM on Linux 6.12 LTS, nested virtualisation enabled
- oversubscription
- 3:1 on fair-share plans, 1:1 on dedicated-core plans
Test file
203.0.127.10
Open. We peer with anyone at any exchange where we are both present.
Looking glass →05
Questions
Questions about hosting in Australia
01Does a Melbourne instance protect me from a Sydney outage?
For compute, yes: different building, different upstream mix, different exchange fabric. What it does not do by itself is fail over — you need two instances, replication at the application layer and a DNS record you can move. Region-to-region transfers are a rebuild, not a resize; the disk stays where the metal is.
02Melbourne is Tier III and Sydney is Tier III+. What does that change?
Less redundancy in the facility's own plant, and nothing in what we rack inside it. Every rack in the fleet takes A+B feeds from separate PDUs — a rule we wrote in 2014 after wiring one ourselves and losing half of Frankfurt to it — with N+1 UPS and on-site diesel behind that. The uptime figure we publish is fleet-wide.
03How many IP addresses do I get?
One dedicated IPv4 and a routed /64 of IPv6 with every plan. Up to eight extra IPv4 addresses can be added at €1.20 each per month, assigned from the region's own prefix so geolocation stays consistent. A routed /48 of IPv6 is €2 a month if you are running your own network behind us.
04Is DDoS protection included?
Yes, on every plan, with no separate charge and no traffic threshold. Volumetric attacks are absorbed by hardware scrubbers at the edge and mitigation engages in under four seconds. The advanced tier adds layer-7 scrubbing and rules you write yourself, which matters for game servers and public APIs but not for much else.
05Is port 25 open? Can I run a mail server?
Port 25 is closed by default on new instances and opened on request — send a ticket saying what you are sending and to roughly how many recipients. It usually takes under an hour. Custom reverse DNS on both v4 and v6 is self-service from the console, which is the part that actually determines whether your mail lands.
06Which region should I pick?
The one closest to your users, not to you. Every location costs the same, so there is no reason to compromise. The locations page lists median round trip from residential probes in each metro, and there is a live latency test on every site page. If you are unsure, Frankfurt and Amsterdam reach the most people in the fewest milliseconds.
07Can I move an existing server to another country?
You can deploy a replacement in the new region and migrate, and support will run the transfer for you at no charge if you ask. What we cannot do is move an instance between regions in place — the disk stays where the metal is, and the IP address belongs to that region's prefix.
Payment from Australia
No local bank account, card or tax identifier is needed. Any of 42 crypto assets works from anywhere, including from Australia.