The Gap, Australia
University Hosting in The Gap
Servers for research groups, departmental applications and student projects, with root access for the people who need it.
- ✓ Root access per project
- ✓ Daily off-server backups
- ✓ Scale up for term time
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from The Gap. Your real figure depends on your connection and route, and lands inside this range.
Choose how the processor is shared
Every class ships the same hardware menu and the same Ubuntu Server 24.04 (LTS) 64-bit image. What changes is how the processor is shared — and the price moves with it.
Availability
Budget friendly
Reasonable for internal tools and staging where a slow minute costs nothing.
$276.75USD
per month
ConfigureGeneral purpose
The usual choice
Predictable processor time for the application and its database side by side.
$287.75USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
Dedicated cores for build servers, background jobs and anything with a queue that must not fall behind.
$298.75USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
Development only
Only for development boxes. Throttles under sustained load, so it is a poor fit for anything customer-facing.
$0.5729USD
per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed
Book by the hourRaise memory, cores or disk on the same server as you grow — by hand, usually within the hour, without a migration.
Departments are not one customer
A university is a collection of groups with different needs and different budgets. A separate server per project is usually simpler and cheaper than negotiating shared capacity centrally.
One server per group
A research group gets root on its own machine rather than a ticket queue for a change on a shared one.
Term-time peaks
Memory, cores and disk go up on the same server for an intake or a submission deadline, and back down afterwards.
Predictable billing
A fixed monthly cost per machine, quoted in advance — easier to put on a grant or a departmental budget than usage-based cloud billing.
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server. Choose the region closest to the customers using the product day to day, or to the database it talks to if that lives elsewhere.
The Gap is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Gap ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 733 km | 11–22 ms |
| Singapore | 6,145 km | 92–184 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,926 km | 104–208 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 7,156 km | 107–215 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,887 km | 133–267 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 10,045 km | 151–301 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 10,170 km | 153–305 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 11,417 km | 171–343 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 11,571 km | 174–347 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 11,851 km | 178–356 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 13,402 km | 201–402 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 14,369 km | 216–431 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 14,552 km | 218–437 ms |
| Miami, United States | 14,770 km | 222–443 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 15,043 km | 226–451 ms |
| New York, United States | 15,506 km | 233–465 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 14,104 km | 212–423 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 14,971 km | 225–449 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 15,090 km | 226–453 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 16,083 km | 241–483 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 16,185 km | 243–486 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 16,251 km | 244–488 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 16,519 km | 248–496 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 17,435 km | 262–523 ms |
Distances are from The Gap. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Daily off-server backups
Free SSL, issued and renewed for you
A staging copy of your environment
Root access and your choice of stack
Included with every IT & SaaS server, in every class, at every location.
University hosting for The Gap
We host servers for companies throughout The Gap, QLD and the rest of Australia. You tell us what the server is for, we build it by hand, and you get access and the login details the same working day.
Sydney is our closest location at 733 km, which makes it the usual starting point. If the people using the server are somewhere else, host it somewhere else — every location costs the same.
University Hosting in The Gap — FAQs
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