Vultr today operates over 32 worldwide locations, strategically placed to hit latencies as low as 2–40 ms to 90% of the world’s population. Their network is built on multi-homed, redundant transit providers with local ISP peering, ensuring both low latency and high resilience.
Current Data Center Locations
Below is a continent-by-continent breakdown (status as of June 2025) pulled from Vultr’s real-time status page
| North America | Europe | Asia | APAC & Africa |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey (USA) | London (UK) | Tokyo (Japan) | Sydney (Australia) |
| Dallas (USA) | Frankfurt (Germany) | Osaka (Japan) | Melbourne (Australia) |
| Chicago (USA) | Amsterdam (Netherlands) | Seoul (South Korea) | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Miami (USA) | Paris (France) | Singapore (Singapore) | |
| Atlanta (USA) | Madrid (Spain) | Delhi NCR (India) | |
| Seattle (USA) | Manchester (UK) | Mumbai (India) | |
| Los Angeles (USA) | Stockholm (Sweden) | Bangalore (India) | |
| Silicon Valley (USA) | Warsaw (Poland) | Tel Aviv (Israel) | |
| Toronto (Canada) | |||
| São Paulo (Brazil) | |||
| Mexico City (Mexico) | |||
| Santiago (Chile) |
Key Criteria for Choosing a Location
- Latency to End Users
Deploy as close as possible to your primary audience. Every additional 1,000 km can add ~10 ms of round-trip delay; Vultr’s regional peering minimizes this further. - Network Quality & Peering
Not all locations have identical peering relationships—some (e.g. New Jersey, Amsterdam) enjoy extra direct ISP links that shave off precious milliseconds under load. - Available Features
- IPv6 Beta: rolled out first in New Jersey, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo.
- High-Frequency Compute: available in select metros (e.g. London, Tokyo, Los Angeles).
- Bare-Metal & GPU: check region-by-region availability for dedicated hardware.
- Compliance & Data Sovereignty
If you need to meet GDPR/EU data-residency rules, Frankfurt or Paris are your go-to; for Brazil-specific mandates, São Paulo. - Pricing Parity
Unlike some clouds that vary region-to-region pricing, Vultr’s base prices are uniform globally, so you’re not penalized by choosing a premium location.
Regional Recommendations
| Use Case | Top Choices | Why? |
|---|---|---|
| Global Audience | New Jersey (USA) | Centrally located between North America & Europe; excellent peering; IPv6 readiness. |
| North America–Only | Los Angeles (West), New Jersey (East) | Bi-coastal reach ensures low latency across the continent. |
| Europe & MENA | Amsterdam, Frankfurt | Major IXPs (AMS-IX, DE-CIX) deliver sub-10 ms regional latencies. |
| Asia-Pacific | Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney | Key digital hubs with strong local connectivity and direct submarine-cable links. |
| Emerging Markets / LatAm | São Paulo, Mexico City, Santiago | First-party locations in South America reduce backhaul to North America or Europe. |
| Disaster Recovery / DR | Pair any two distant metros (e.g. Tokyo + LA) | Guarantees geographic isolation; minimizes correlated risks. |
Benchmarking & Testing Methodology
Multi-Point Ping/Traceroute
Use services like maplatency.com or Speed-test agents around the world to chart real-world round-trip times (RTTs) to candidate locations.
HTTP & TTFB Tests
Tools like sucuri.net can measure Time-To-First-Byte from multiple vantage points, highlighting real-user load performance.
Throughput & Jitter Analysis
For VoIP or streaming, run sustained iperf3 tests to check bandwidth consistency and jitter across peering links.
CPU/IO Benchmarks
If compute-intensive, compare CPU clock speeds and SSD I/O rates (Vultr often outperforms competitors on $5 plans with 2.4 GHz CPUs).
Advanced Considerations
- Direct Connect
For hybrid-cloud setups, Vultr’s Direct Connect in select locations (e.g., New Jersey, London) offers private fiber links, bypassing the public internet for sub-millisecond jitter. - Multi-Region Failover
Architect with secondary “hot standby” instances in a distant region to enable seamless failover under SLA-driven RTO/RPO targets. - CDN / Anycast
For truly global static-asset delivery, layer a CDN (or anycast DNS) on top of Vultr, allowing edge nodes to terminate traffic locally and backhaul it to the nearest Vultr node. - IPv6 Rollout
Track Vultr’s blog for new IPv6-enabled metros; once fully available, IPv6 reduces NAT-induced latency and simplifies peering.
Conclusion
There is no one-size-fits-all “best” location—your ideal Vultr region will hinge on where your users are, which features you require, and how you plan to architect for performance and reliability. By leveraging Vultr’s broad global footprint, running real-world benchmarks, and aligning region choices with your compliance and disaster recovery (DR) needs, you can optimize both latency and throughput for any application stack.
