Latency matters. Choose a VPS data center close to your users — every region runs the same hardware, the same panel, and the same prices. Click any city to view detailed plans for that region.
Latency is the single biggest performance lever in modern web infrastructure, and it is determined almost entirely by physical distance between your server and your users. A user in Mumbai accessing a server in California faces roughly 240ms of round-trip time — before any TCP handshake, TLS negotiation, or HTTP request. A user in Mumbai accessing a server in Mumbai sees 3-5ms.
This difference is enormous. Google has documented that every 100ms of additional latency reduces conversion rate by approximately 7%. Amazon found that a 100ms slowdown costs them 1% of sales. Mobile users abandon pages that take longer than 3 seconds to load — and on a high-latency connection, just establishing a TLS handshake can eat half that budget.
Choosing the right VPS location is not a small optimization. For most websites and applications, it is the single biggest infrastructure decision you will make.
Three factors determine the right region for your workload:
Look at analytics. 70% from India? Host in Mumbai or Bangalore. Mostly European? Frankfurt or Amsterdam. Global? Multi-region + CDN.
Payment processors, email APIs, third-party DBs — co-locate with your most-called dependencies when possible.
EU GDPR prefers EU-resident hosting. Indian fintech needs Indian residency. Email legal@olivevps.com for guidance.
Some hosts charge premium pricing for "premium regions." We don't. A Tokyo VPS costs the same as a New York VPS as a London VPS. We deploy the same AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon hardware, the same enterprise NVMe storage, and the same KVM hypervisor in every facility. Your performance benchmark numbers will be effectively identical regardless of which region you choose.
This pricing model exists because we believe geographic accessibility shouldn't be a luxury. Hosting your application close to your users should never require a premium tier.
Many of our customers run in multiple regions for redundancy or global reach. Common patterns:
Every OliveVPS region is multi-homed across multiple Tier 1 carriers and peers at the largest internet exchange points available. Frankfurt peers at DE-CIX (the busiest IX on Earth). Amsterdam peers at AMS-IX. London peers at LINX. Singapore peers at SGIX. Mumbai peers at NIXI. The result is short, direct paths to most of the global internet from every region.
For latency-sensitive customers, we publish test IPs and traceroute targets for every region. Pick a region, ping it from your user's network, and verify the numbers before you commit.
We add new locations every quarter based on customer demand. Currently planned for the next 12 months:
If you need a region we don't yet serve, tell us. Demand drives our roadmap.
Internal latency between our regions matters for customers running multi-region deployments. The numbers below are typical median round-trip times measured continuously by our internal monitoring:
If you serve a global audience, three regions cover most of the world with acceptable latency:
Add a fourth region in São Paulo for Latin American coverage, and a fifth in Sydney for Oceania, and you have a six-region deployment serving the entire world with sub-100ms latency from the nearest region. Many customers run this configuration with a small CDN in front (Cloudflare or BunnyCDN) for static assets and instant TLS termination.
Data residency matters. EU GDPR strongly prefers that EU customer data stay within the EU; some interpretations require it for sensitive categories. Indian financial regulations require data residency for payment-related processing. Brazilian LGPD has similar provisions for sensitive data.
Our European regions (Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Helsinki, Dublin) are suitable for EU GDPR-compliant deployments. Our Mumbai and Bangalore regions are suitable for Indian data residency requirements. Our São Paulo region is suitable for Brazilian LGPD requirements. We sign Data Processing Agreements on request for any region.
If you have a specific compliance question, email legal@olivevps.com with your framework (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, etc.) and we'll tell you which regions and configurations are appropriate.
Different industries have different region preferences based on user concentration, regulatory environment, and ecosystem proximity. Here's what we typically see:
New York for US fintech (proximity to NYSE/NASDAQ matter), London or Frankfurt for European fintech (regulatory clarity, deep banking infrastructure), Singapore for Asian fintech (regulatory friendliness, regional hub status), Mumbai for Indian fintech (regulatory mandate, NPCI proximity).
Game servers benefit enormously from low latency. North American gaming typically deploys to Dallas or Los Angeles (central distance to most US users). European gaming often picks Frankfurt or Helsinki (Frankfurt for central Europe, Helsinki for Nordics and Russia). Asian gaming leans Tokyo or Seoul for high-skill competitive titles, Singapore for SEA-focused games.
Ecommerce sites tend to follow user concentration. North American stores deploy to New York or Dallas. European stores favor Frankfurt or Amsterdam (also commonly Dublin for EU-wide reach due to favorable tax treatment of operating entities). Latin American stores universally pick São Paulo. Indian ecommerce splits between Mumbai (financial capital) and Bangalore (tech capital).
SaaS products with global users typically run multi-region from day one. The standard pattern is Frankfurt + New York + Singapore for global coverage with under 100ms median latency from the nearest region. Add Sydney and São Paulo if you have meaningful Oceania or Latin American customer bases.
Bandwidth-heavy workloads (video streaming, large file delivery, software distribution) favor regions with strong peering and generous transit. Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Los Angeles are all excellent for this — they sit on major submarine cable landing points and offer some of our most diverse network paths.
Raw bandwidth is rarely the bottleneck for hosting workloads. What matters is the quality and diversity of network paths between your server and your users. A region with excellent peering can route packets through 2-3 hops to most of the global internet; a region with poor peering may route through 10+ hops, adding latency and increasing the chance of network instability.
We pick our regions specifically for peering quality. Frankfurt's DE-CIX is the busiest internet exchange on Earth — over 1,000 networks meet there, including Google, Netflix, Cloudflare, Akamai, and most major CDNs. Amsterdam's AMS-IX is similar. Singapore's SGIX is the gateway to Southeast Asia. Tokyo's JPNAP is the busiest IX in Japan. By placing servers at these exchanges, we minimize the number of intermediate networks your traffic crosses, which improves both latency and reliability.
If you're running production infrastructure, you should have a disaster recovery plan that doesn't depend on a single region. Even the best-operated region will have outages — a fiber cut, a power failure at a peering exchange, a cooling failure during a heatwave. Multi-region deployment protects against these single points of failure.
Our customers commonly run one of these DR patterns:
We don't charge anything extra for cross-region traffic between OliveVPS instances — bandwidth between our regions is included in your plan's normal allocation.
For workloads where every millisecond matters — real-time gaming, financial trading systems, voice and video calling, multiplayer simulations — your region selection essentially is your performance optimization.
Real-time multiplayer games typically need 50ms or less RTT for competitive play. This effectively requires a same-continent server for any given player base. North American competitive games run in Dallas (geographically central) or split into East/West regions (New York and Los Angeles). European competitive games concentrate in Frankfurt because most European players sit within 50ms of Frankfurt. Asia-Pacific is harder because the continent is so geographically vast — Tokyo serves Japan and Korea well, Singapore serves Southeast Asia well, and Mumbai serves South Asia well, but no single region covers all of Asia.
Voice and video calling tolerate slightly higher latency (up to 150ms RTT before quality degrades noticeably) but are extremely sensitive to jitter and packet loss. Our regions with the most diverse peering — Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Singapore, Tokyo — tend to perform best for these workloads because diverse paths reduce the chance of any single network anomaly affecting all your traffic.
Some customers run development and staging in different regions than production, which is a reasonable choice for security isolation but a confusing choice for performance testing. If you're staging in Frankfurt and producing in Tokyo, your performance numbers will not generalize. We recommend running staging in the same region as production for any non-trivial application.
That said, if your dev team is concentrated geographically and your production users aren't, you may legitimately want development infrastructure in a different region than production. A common pattern: dev infrastructure in Helsinki because the team works in Europe, production infrastructure in New York because the customers are American. As long as you account for the latency differences when interpreting test results, this works fine.
When you're starting a new project and have no existing geographic distribution to optimize for, we generally recommend Frankfurt as a default first region. Frankfurt has the strongest peering of any city in our network, the lowest median latency to most of the global internet, and competitive pricing on bandwidth overage. It's a sensible default that you won't regret if your project later grows in any direction.
If your project clearly targets a specific geography from day one — an Indian fintech, a Brazilian ecommerce site, a Japanese gaming community — pick the region nearest your target users instead. The performance benefit of being close to your users typically outweighs the operational benefits of being in a global hub.
You cannot move an existing VPS between regions, but you can create a new VPS in any region and migrate your data using snapshot transfer. We help with this for free on Pro and Premium plans. Most cross-region migrations complete with under 5 minutes of downtime if planned around DNS TTL reduction.
Yes. A Starter plan in Tokyo costs $5/mo, the same as a Starter plan in New York or Mumbai. We don't charge "premium region" surcharges. The hardware specs, support quality, and SLA are identical across regions.
Frankfurt has the strongest peering globally because it sits at DE-CIX, the busiest internet exchange in the world. Amsterdam, London, and Singapore are also extremely well-peered. New York and Los Angeles have strong North American peering. Tokyo has the strongest peering in Asia.
Yes, and many customers do. Multi-region deployment is the standard pattern for production systems that serve global users or need disaster recovery. Bandwidth between OliveVPS regions is included in your plan's normal allocation — there are no cross-region transfer fees.
Yes. Every region has a public test hostname (like ny.olivevps.com, tyo.olivevps.com) that you can ping or traceroute from your network. We also publish 100 MB and 1 GB test files at the same hostnames for bandwidth benchmarking before you commit to a region.
Currently dedicated servers are available in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore, and Mumbai. We're expanding dedicated availability to every VPS region by end of 2026. If you need bare metal in a region not currently supported, email sales for a custom configuration.