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AKL1 · NZ · -36.85, 174.76

VPS hosting in Auckland, New Zealand

Our AKL1 point of presence occupies a facility in Auckland rated Tier III. Every node uplinks at 1 x 10 Gbps into 740 Gbps of transit, filtered inline by 600 Gbps of scrubbing capacity.

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from€7.67/mo

CodeAKL1
FacilityTier III
Uplink1 x 10 Gbps
Capacity740 Gbps
DDoS600 Gbps

Why Auckland

New Zealand is the end of the line, and Auckland is where the country's cables come ashore. AKL1 exists so that a service aimed at New Zealand users can sit in New Zealand, rather than being fronted from Sydney and paying the Tasman crossing on every request.

How Auckland is connected

Southern Cross has carried the country's international traffic since 2000 and now shares the load with Tasman Global Access and Hawaiki, all landing on the upper North Island. Sydney is roughly 25 milliseconds out, the US west coast around 130, and Europe close to a quarter of a second in either direction. Domestic peering runs over APE and MegaIX Auckland.

What AKL1 is good at

  • 01In-country hosting for New Zealand users
  • 02Trans-Tasman failover from Sydney
  • 03Latency-sensitive Pacific edge services
Hosting under New Zealand lawThe Privacy Act 2020 brought mandatory breach notification and, under IPP12, conditions on sending personal information offshore. New Zealand also holds an EU adequacy decision and is a member of the Five Eyes arrangement; both are public record and both bear on where data should sit.

Measured latency

Auckland

Sydney24 ms
Melbourne28 ms
Singapore118 ms
Los Angeles126 ms
Tokyo132 ms

Round-trip time from Auckland to the listed hub, median over the last 30 days.

Peering and transit

APEMegaIX AKL

Addressing

IPv4/24 leased
IPv6/40 allocated

Jurisdiction

New Zealand / Privacy Act 2020.

Hardware available here

  • AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Hardware is operated by us inside a partner facility.

Pricing

Plans available in Auckland

Prices in Auckland are indexed at 130% of the base list, reflecting local transit and power cost.

Server familiesCPUvCPURAMMonthlyAnnual · −30%
PULSE
The fast entry point
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X28432 GB€7.67€5.37Deploy
TORQUE
Dense, dedicated, cheap per core
AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo43216128 GB€32.37€22.66Deploy
NITRO
Highest clock we can buy
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X41616128 GB€42.77€29.94Deploy
FORGE
Memory first
Intel Xeon 6544Y42464512 GB€96.20€67.34Deploy
VAULT
Terabytes that stay cheap
AMD EPYC 9354412864 GB€28.47€19.93Deploy

Fleet discounts stack on top: 3% from three servers, 6% from five, 10% from ten, applied to the whole invoice.

FAQ

Questions about Auckland

The AKL1 point of presence peers at APE, MegaIX AKL and carries 740 Gbps of aggregate transit. Every node uplinks at 1 x 10 Gbps, filtered inline by 600 Gbps of scrubbing capacity.

Prices in Auckland are indexed at 130% of the base list, which reflects local transit and power cost. The annual cycle takes thirty percent off that, and ordering several servers on one invoice takes a further three to ten percent. The table above shows both cycles.

Median provisioning at AKL1 is under a minute from confirmed payment. Windows images take three to four minutes because of sysprep. Nothing in the flow waits for a human.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, with DDR5 ECC memory and NVMe storage in RAID10. Hardware is operated by us inside a partner facility.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, with DDR5 ECC memory and NVMe storage in RAID10. Hardware is operated by us inside a partner facility. Every node keeps a fifth of its cores and memory unallocated, so a busy neighbour does not become your problem.

New Zealand / Privacy Act 2020. We comply with valid legal process issued by that jurisdiction and nothing beyond it, and we publish the counts twice a year in our transparency report.