Game Server Hosting in Australia
Sydney servers for low ping in Australia and New Zealand, priced in Australian dollars and run by an Australian business. Pick Sydney at checkout and your server is live in seconds, whichever game you play.
Why an Australian server matters
Distance is the one thing no amount of hardware fixes. A packet from Melbourne to a server in Europe crosses most of the planet and comes back: about 266 ms before the game has done anything with it, and roughly 231 ms to Dallas. To Sydney it is about 19 ms. That is the difference everybody notices: hits register, blocks break when you click them, and nobody rubber-bands across the map.
So if your group is in Australia or New Zealand, pick Sydney. If half of them are overseas, pick whichever location most of your players are nearest to. You are not locked in either way: a server can be moved between locations from the panel, and the price is the same in all of them.
Ping to Sydney
Estimated round trip from each city to our Sydney location, worked out from the distance by the same model as the map on our home page. Your own figure depends on your connection too, so take these as what to expect rather than a promise.
Every game, hosted in Australia
19 games run on the Sydney location, each at the same price as every other location. Open a game for its plans, its features and the settings you get.
One server, 17 games. Switch to another from the panel.
The original Minecraft experience, running at its best.
Cross-platform Minecraft for console, mobile, and PC.
Crossplay bridge — Java and Bedrock players in one server.
Survive, build, and dominate on your own Rust server.
Build, craft and slay dragons together on your own Dragonwilds server.
Catch, build, and battle with friends on your own server.
Competitive CS2 servers with low latency and full plugin support.
Viking survival at its finest on your own dedicated server.
Modded Valheim with BepInEx pre-installed and ready to go.
Tame dinosaurs and build empires on your own ARK server.
The next generation of ARK, rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5.
Survive the apocalypse together on your own PZ server.
Dig, fight, explore, and build — your world, your server.
Modded Terraria servers powered by tModLoader.
Craft, build, and survive in the Shroud — together.
Survive the constant with friends, surface and caves, always on.
The next-generation sandbox adventure, hosted on enterprise hardware.
Keep your Discord bot online 24/7 with reliable hosting.
Buying from an Australian host
- An Australian business, ABN 26 490 867 879, so your invoices come from here.
- Prices, invoices and renewals in Australian dollars when you pick AUD.
- Support around the clock, in your own time zone as well as everybody else’s.
- The same enterprise hardware, NVMe storage and DDoS protection as every other location.
- Move your server to or from Sydney yourself, from the panel, at no charge.
Not in Australia?
Sydney is one of our locations, not the only one. The same plans run in:
- Dallas, United States
- Limburg, Germany
- Gravelines, France
- Warsaw, Poland
Questions about hosting in Australia
Where in Australia are your game servers?
Sydney, New South Wales. It is the location most Australian and New Zealand players are closest to, and it is the one to pick at checkout if your group is in Australia or NZ.
What ping can I expect from an Australian server?
Around 8 ms from Sydney itself, and under 26 ms from Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart and Adelaide. Perth and New Zealand are further, at roughly 59 and 41 ms. The same estimate puts Melbourne at about 266 ms to our European location and 231 ms to Dallas, which is the difference between a game that feels instant and one that does not. These are distance estimates, not measurements from your own connection.
Can I pay in Australian dollars?
Yes. Pick AUD in the currency selector and every price on the site, your invoices and your renewals are in Australian dollars. GuavaHost is an Australian business, ABN 26 490 867 879, so you are buying locally.
My server is in the US or Europe. Can I move it to Sydney?
Yes, and you do it yourself. Open your server in the control panel, choose Change location and pick Sydney. Your files, your world and your settings move with it, and your plan and price do not change. It takes a few minutes and you keep the same server.
Which games can I host in Australia?
All of them. Every game on this page runs on the Sydney location at the same price as everywhere else, with the same hardware, the same DDoS protection and the same control panel.
Start on a Sydney server
Pick your game, pick Sydney, and your server is running in seconds.
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