Put Your Server Where It Helps
Distance decides how fast the connection feels, and the country decides which services treat you as local. Those two things are worth thinking about for ten minutes before anything gets bought, because moving a working setup later is more effort than choosing well now.
Every region below is somewhere we can build your server. It sits on your own hosting account with a provider you pick, so the list is as wide as the hosting market rather than as wide as a network we happen to own.
Every Region We Can Build In
Grouped by continent, because the first decision is almost always which part of the world your traffic should come out in rather than which specific country. Availability depends on the host you go with, and we confirm the exact city before anything is created.
The widest choice anywhere, and the cheapest hosting on the list. Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London carry most of the region's traffic, so a server in one of those three usually feels fastest even from countries several borders away.
United Kingdom
Ireland
Netherlands
Germany
France
Spain
Portugal
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Iceland
Poland
Czechia
Slovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Greece
Serbia
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
UkraineWorth splitting by coast rather than by country. A server in New York and one in Los Angeles behave very differently if you are connecting from Europe or from Asia, so we pick the city with you rather than defaulting to whichever the host lists first.
United States
Canada
MexicoSão Paulo is the anchor for the whole continent and most traffic routes through it anyway. Hosting elsewhere in the region costs more and is worth it mainly when a local banking or government portal is the reason for the server.
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Colombia
PeruTokyo, Singapore and Seoul are the three that matter for anyone working from inside China, because the distance is short enough that video calls stay usable. Everything else in the region is chosen for a specific local service rather than for speed.
Japan
Singapore
South Korea
Hong Kong
Taiwan
India
Indonesia
Malaysia
Thailand
Vietnam
Philippines
KazakhstanMostly requested by people who need a local address for a bank or a government portal while living somewhere else. Hosting here costs more than Europe and the rules on what you can run vary a good deal between countries, so it is worth a conversation first.
United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
Bahrain
Israel
TürkiyeJohannesburg is the only location on the continent with hosting comparable to Europe. The rest are available and slower, and for most purposes a European server still performs better even for someone sitting in Africa.
South Africa
Egypt
Morocco
Nigeria
KenyaSydney handles almost everything for the region, including New Zealand, where the difference between a local server and an Australian one is small enough that most people do not notice it.
Australia
New ZealandThe list moves as hosting providers open and close regions. If somewhere you need is missing, ask anyway, because there is usually a provider covering it that does not appear on the big comparison sites.
Whichever you pick, the account is yours and the server is created on it, so changing region later means building a fresh machine and moving your configuration across rather than asking anyone for permission.
How To Pick Between Them
Start with why you want the server, because that answers the location question on its own most of the time. There are only four reasons anyone picks a country, and they pull in different directions, which is why a list of sixty one countries is more confusing than helpful without this part.
You want it fast
Then pick the closest option to wherever you actually sit, and stop there. Every extra thousand miles adds delay to every request, and no amount of server specification makes that up. Somebody in Karachi is better served by Singapore or Dubai than by a cheaper machine in Germany, even though the German one looks identical on paper.
Something needs you to be local
A bank, a tax portal, a payroll system or a work tool that behaves differently outside its home country. Here the country is decided for you and speed comes second. Pick the one your account belongs to, and if you are also away from home, the travel router build is usually the better answer than a server anyway.
The network you are on is the problem
Hotel wifi, an office router, a country that filters heavily. Then the location matters less than the configuration, and the right choice is a nearby region with good routing rather than a far away one with a reputation. For anyone heading to China this is worth reading properly on its own page before choosing.
A team has to share one address
Then put it where most of the people are, not where the head office is registered. Fourteen staff spread across two continents usually want two servers rather than an unhappy compromise in the middle, and the second one costs about the price of a coffee each month.
City beats country
The United States is four time zones wide and Germany is not, so the country name on a list tells you much less than the city behind it. Frankfurt and Berlin are not the same choice, and neither are New York and Los Angeles, which is why we confirm the location rather than the flag.
Cheapest rarely wins here
Hosting price and route quality are barely related. A provider two dollars cheaper a month can sit on a congested path that adds noticeable delay all evening, and you would never see it in the specification. This is the one part of the choice where our opinion is worth more than a comparison table.
Most people overthink this and pick well anyway. If you are within a few hundred miles of a major hosting city, almost any option there will feel the same, and the decision only gets genuinely difficult when a specific service or a spread out team is involved.
Tell us where you are and what the server is for, and you will get a straight recommendation rather than a list to work through on your own.
Tell Us Where You Are And What The Server Is For
Those two answers pick the region between them, usually in one reply. If a particular bank, portal or work system is the reason, mention it, because that often decides the country before speed gets a say. We confirm the host and the city with you before anything is created, and the account stays in your name from the first day.
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