Data Centres
Protecting Your Data in World-Class Data Centre Facilities
At WPhost, we understand that the foundation for a successful online presence is exceptional website performance and unwavering reliability. That’s why we’ve strategically partnered with world-class data centre providers across New Zealand and Australia to deliver the lightning-fast speeds and robust security you need for your New Zealand business, protecting your valuable website data and ensuring consistent availability.
Your website’s data and uptime are paramount. Our strategic selection of data centres, combined with a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) with points of presence in NZ to minimise load times for your visitors, provides an unparalleled hosting experience for customers in New Zealand and beyond.
Google Cloud Platform - Low Latency for NZ & AU
Powered for New Zealand & Australian customers with a global footprint, WPhost leverages the Google Cloud Platform (australia-southeast1) region in the APAC (Asia Pacific) area as a core part of our robust infrastructure, utilising its state-of-the-art facilities in Sydney to ensure our Cloud Platform services are located close to our users, resulting in significant performance advantages.
Our performance testing has shown impressive 80-95% reductions in round-trip-time (RTT) latency when serving visitors from major cities across both countries, including Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. This low latency translates directly to faster loading times for WordPress websites, leading to improved user experience and better SEO performance.
Global Content Delivery Network (CDN) & Edge Caching
To deliver exceptional website speed and reliability for visitors worldwide, all WPhost plans include a powerful Global Content Delivery Network (CDN) combined with advanced Edge Caching.
How it Works: A CDN functions by caching your website’s content on a network of strategically located servers around the world, including multiple points of presence within the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Our advanced Edge Caching features smart full-page caching, including intelligent exclusions for dynamic content. This ensures that the complete HTML of your pages, along with static assets like images, CSS, and JavaScript, is stored on these edge servers and delivered to visitors from a geographically closer server, resulting in dramatically faster loading speeds and a more responsive user experience.
Depending on your chosen WPhost plan, you’ll benefit from seamless integration with either Cloudflare CDN or Fastly CDN, two of the industry’s leading providers.
Cloudflare CDN for WordPress
Benefit from Cloudflare’s extensive global network, providing robust security features and significant performance optimisation for your WordPress website across New Zealand, Australia and parts of the Pacific. Our interactive map below showcases Cloudflare’s points of presence across New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia and Fiji, highlighting the local cities where your website’s content will be cached for faster delivery to your visitors in these regions.
Fastly CDN for WordPress
Experience high-performance caching and real-time content delivery with Fastly’s advanced CDN across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. Our interactive map below illustrates Fastly’s points of presence throughout New Zealand and Australia, demonstrating the local cities ensuring rapid content delivery to your website visitors. Fastly’s global network includes a point of presence in Hawaii, which also contributes to improved performance for some Pacific visitors.
If you’d like to learn more about how CDNs work and their benefits, please visit our WordPress CDN Guide.
Equinix Data Centre (High-Performance Email Infrastructure)
Your email benefits from our fast and reliable cloud infrastructure, backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee and a fully redundant, load-balanced VExim mail platform. Our network’s use of the latest solid-state drives ensures a responsive email experience. We also provide robust protection, including 24/7 monitoring and DDoS countermeasures.
Key Benefits: Experience reliable and fast email services with enterprise-class infrastructure and robust security. For a comprehensive list of features and more details, please visit our WordPress Email Hosting page.
Premium DNS Services with Amazon Route 53
To ensure optimal performance and reliability, WPhost provides premium DNS services powered by Amazon Route 53, available free on all WooCommerce Hosting and Enterprise WordPress Hosting Plans.
Leveraging the robust infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Route 53 offers a globally-dispersed network of Domain Name System (DNS) servers. This ensures reliable and fast DNS resolution for your website visitors worldwide, crucial for the responsiveness of e-commerce sites and the high availability demands of enterprise applications.
The automatic scaling capabilities of Amazon Route 53 dynamically adapt to traffic fluctuations, guaranteeing a seamless user experience even during peak loads.
For WooCommerce and Enterprise users, this translates to improved website loading speeds, crucial for conversions and user satisfaction, and enhanced reliability for mission-critical online operations. Our expert team handles the full setup of this scalable and dependable DNS solution, allowing you to benefit from premium-grade DNS without any complex configuration on your part.
Secure & Reliable DNS Hosting with NextDC
For domain names managed by WPhost, our nameservers are hosted in the highly secure NEXTDC S2 data centre located in Macquarie Park, Sydney. We’ve partnered with NextDC, an Uptime Institute Tier IV certified hyperscale facility, to ensure the utmost reliability and security for your domain name resolution.
While our main WordPress hosting infrastructure is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, leveraging NextDC’s enterprise-grade facility for our DNS provides significant advantages:
- Enhanced Security: Benefit from comprehensive, multi-layered security measures within NEXTDC's secure facility, including advanced firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and robust DDoS mitigation.
- High-Performance Network: Our DNS benefits from extensive peering with major international internet exchanges, ensuring low latency and fast, reliable DNS resolution across the region and globally.
- Enterprise-Grade Hardware: Our DNS infrastructure runs on reliable, high-speed hardware within NEXTDC, ensuring quick response times for DNS queries.
- DDoS Protection: Your domain names are protected by our fully redundant network with built-in DDoS mitigation within the secure NEXTDC environment, safeguarding against disruptive attacks.
- Easy DNS Management: You can easily manage your DNS records through your secure Client Area, knowing your DNS is hosted on a protected and high-performance network.
