Melbourne is Australia's tech capital - and your customers deserve a site that loads fast. Our Melbourne WordPress servers sit in a Tier 3 AU data centre with NVMe storage and a direct path to Victoria's fastest internet exchanges. Whether you're a Carlton café, a Fitzroy creative studio, or a Southbank law firm, your WordPress site will feel instant.
From $5 AUD/month - ultra-low latency from our Melbourne NVMe server.
Every millisecond of page load time costs you visitors. When your server is physically close to your audience, pages load faster - and Google rewards fast sites with higher rankings.
Most Australian small businesses are still running on US or Singapore servers with 150-200ms round-trip times. Our Melbourne data centre cuts that to under 5ms for Melbourne visitors.
Your data never leaves Australia. That means better performance, compliance with Australian data residency expectations, and a hosting provider that's actually accountable under Australian consumer law.
Melbourne has more small design and creative studios per capita than anywhere else in the country, and a very large number of them build client sites in WordPress. It is also a city where a huge amount of hospitality trade is decided on a phone between one venue and the next, which makes page speed a commercial question rather than a technical one. Our Melbourne server sits in a Tier 3 facility with NVMe storage, so a Fitzroy restaurant's menu page arrives before the person outside has finished reading the board.
Melbourne is home to one of Australia's two largest internet exchanges, so traffic between our server and most Victorian ISPs stays inside the city rather than transiting to Sydney and back. That is the difference between roughly 3ms and roughly 25ms before your site has done any work at all.
We manage the platform - servers, security, backups and the hosting stack - so you can focus on your site. And when you do need a hand, you're talking to someone who deeply understands DNS, PHP, server security and WordPress, not a helpdesk reading from a script. Most issues are resolved the same day, often within the hour.
Getting help with a site usually means sharing a password or opening up the login page. Here, everyone who works on your site signs in from our dashboard instead.
Each person gets their own DownUnder WP login. One click from their dashboard signs them in to WordPress as their own user.
Your WordPress login page stays closed to the public, even with a developer, staff member or client working on the site.
Pick their sites and a WordPress role for each. They never see your billing or site tools, and removing someone signs them out straight away.
For one small site - a brochure site, portfolio, blog or simple shop - in its own container. Add more sites to the same plan when you need them.
Get startedFor up to 3 similar small sites run together - portfolios, blogs, or a club and its events site. Expandable to five.
Get startedEvery site runs in its own container, and when yours needs more we build a custom one to fit - so you never pay for resources you don't use.
A busy online store, a marketplace or a site with lots of people logging in needs more room - even when it's quiet. We'll build it a container to fit, from $5 a month extra.
Tell us about your siteWeb developers and IT providers: run every client's site from one account, give each client their own login, and get containers sized to fit each one.
Talk to usMoving from another host? We'll do the migration for you, free - and set up Cloudflare too, if you want it. Tell us where your site is now.
Yes, though the margin is smaller than people expect - about 10 to 15 milliseconds each way. It matters most on sites that make a lot of requests, which is most WordPress sites. If your audience is genuinely national, either is fine; if it is Victorian, pick Melbourne.
Less than you would think. Australia's east coast cities are within about 25ms of each other, so a Melbourne server serves Sydney and Brisbane perfectly well. The choice matters most for Perth, which is a long way from everywhere.
Yes. Open a ticket and we will migrate the container to another city for you. It is not self-service because we want to co-ordinate the DNS cutover so you do not lose any traffic.
Your own isolated Docker container running Nginx, PHP-FPM, and WordPress. It's not shared hosting where you're competing with hundreds of other sites for the same WordPress installation. Your container has its own filesystem, its own database user, its own SSL, and its own NVMe storage. You can reboot it, redeploy it, or destroy it from your dashboard without asking anyone.
Yes. Add them as a team member and choose which sites they can reach and their WordPress role on each, such as Administrator, Editor or Shop Manager. They get one email to set up their own DownUnder WP login. From then on, one click from their dashboard signs them in to WordPress as their own user, so the login page stays closed to the public and you never share a password.
They only see the sites you share with them, never your billing, plans or site tools. Each person has their own WordPress user, so you can see who did what. You can require two-step sign-in for your team, and removing someone signs them out of WordPress straight away.
We offer an optional Daily Backups add-on that takes a daily off-site snapshot of your full WordPress site (files plus database), keeps every night for a week and then one a week back to about three weeks, and lets you download or one-click restore from your dashboard. You can add it at any time from your dashboard - we never silently charge for it. We strongly recommend it for any production site.
We also recommend exporting your WordPress content periodically yourself (Tools → Export in WP-Admin) and keeping copies offsite. Pricing for the add-on is shown on our website and in your dashboard.
Yes, and it doesn't cost anything - it's included on both plans, and there is no setup fee, no migration fee and no minimum term attached to it. Tell us where the site is now and give us access, and we'll bring the files and the database across, get it running on our servers, check it over, and only then tell you exactly when to change your DNS. Your existing site stays up and serving visitors the entire time, so there's no window where your site is offline while we work.
While we're in there we'll set Cloudflare up for you as well, if you want it - free CDN, caching and DDoS protection in front of your site. That's also included, and also something we just do rather than something you buy.
If you'd rather move it yourself, you can: the dashboard has import tools that take the common WordPress backup formats, including All-in-One WP Migration and Duplicator archives. Either way, the answer to "what does the move cost" is nothing.
No free trial, but the cost to try it is $5. If it's not right for you within the first month, email us and we'll refund it - no questions asked.
$5/month. No lock-in. If it doesn't work for you, we'll refund your first month.