{"id":472,"date":"2021-12-08T22:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/us\/2021\/12\/08\/dropping-sydney-cloud-server-pricing\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T22:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:01:35","slug":"dropping-sydney-cloud-server-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/blog\/dropping-sydney-cloud-server-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"We are dropping Sydney Cloud Server pricing by 33% to support even stronger growth in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In March 2021, we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/blog\/upcloud-launches-a-new-data-centre-in-sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>announced the opening<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of AU-SYD1 in Sydney, our first data centre in Australia. After a successful launch, we want to make our Sydney data centre even more competitive and introduce more users to the world\u2019s fastest cloud.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a result, we are lowering the regional prices. Starting today, we offer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0the same premium cloud platform but with an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">even higher price-to-performance ratio for our Oceanian customers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Local data centre for high-performance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our Sydney data centre is located in Equinix\u2019s flagship Sydney data centre SY5, which belongs to the locally most networked data centre campus. With 9,220 cabinets when fully built, it is the largest Equinix data centre in Australia and meets all the highest security and reliability standards.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The data centre provides the same exceptional performance as our 11 other data centres<\/span> and geographical proximity to Australia and Oceania makes it extremely fast for local businesses. It also features <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AMD EPYC processors with even more CPU cores and increased performance compared to the previous Intel generations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New price. Same exceptional service.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting today, all Simple plans, Simple Backups, and Flexible plans in the Sydney data centre match our worldwide prices. We continue to offer the same simple, predictable pricing model: enjoy our quality service with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">100% uptime SLA and 24\/7 technical support as standard.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve been happy to see the strong uptake in our Sydney data centre right from the launch. However, we want to help even more customers in Australia to run their services on the world&#8217;s fastest cloud servers by cutting our prices by 33%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antti Vilpponen<cite>CEO, UpCloud<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new prices are in effect as of today, and you can find them on our <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/pricing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pricing page<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. There is no action required from our current users. Your server pricing has already been updated automatically!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/contact\">Contact our Sales<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2021, we announced the opening of AU-SYD1 in Sydney, our first data centre in Australia. 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