Locations
Introduction
More locations, faster connections and more enjoyment with the server. This is the goal of ZAP-Hosting, which was founded in 2010 in Germany where it also offered its first server location. More locations have been added steadily since then to provide the best possible experience for all of our customers.
Due to the great international interest and growth of the company, additional locations in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia have been added over the years. We are currently offering our server products in FFM / Eygelshoven, DE, London, UK, Helsinki, Finland, Los Angeles, USA (West), Dallas, USA (Central), Ashburn, USA (East), Montreal, Canada, Sydney, Australia, Singapore, Asia.
We have and will continue to take feedback from our customers into consideration and check to what extent demand exists in certain locations and which products are wanted in order to be able to offer our available products in the best possible way there as well.
Availability of locations
As briefly mentioned in advance, we are continuously developing and expanding the scope of our products. However, this is not necessarily always easy and uncomplicated to implement. For that reason, it can happen that we are not able to offer every product at every location from the beginning. You will find an overview of the availability of the server products at the respective locations below.
| Locations | Gameserver | Teamspeak | vRootServer | Dedicated Server |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FFM / Eygelshoven, DE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| London, UK | ✓ | ✓ | X | X |
| Helsinki, Finland | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Los Angeles, USA (West) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Dallas, USA (Central) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Ashburn, USA (East) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | X |
| Montreal, Canada | ✓ | ✓ | X | X |
| Sydney, Australia | ✓ | ✓ | X | X |
| Singapore, Asia | ✓ | ✓ | X | X |
Connection quality to the locations
You are unsure which location is the best for you? That's no problem! We have developed a ping check for our server products, which allows you to test the connection from you to the locations. This way you will get an overview of all ping results at a glance and you can choose the best location for you.
You will find the ping check option during the order process at the location selection. Click there on the Ping-Check 🚀 button. The result of the respective location will then be displayed to you.
More details about our locations
FFM / Eygelshoven, DE
We offer an own server infrastructure with our own network and dedicated hardware at our main location Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company "ZAP-Hosting" was built on this location in 2010.
As a "branch" of our data center in Frankfurt, the Tier III data center "SkyLink" in Eygelshoven (near Aachen, directly on the Dutch border) was introduced in March 2020. All traffic is routed via Frankfurt, so that our customers benefit from an optimal connection and DDoS Protection.
Hardware: Especially HP C7000 G3 ProLiant blade systems with 16x HP G8/G9 blades with 2x E5-2690v2/v4 CPUs each are used. Each with DDR3 and DDR4 ECC memory with up to 3000 MHz speed. We rely on and Juniper switches. Our coreswitch has 48x 10G SFP+ ports, over which the entire uplink of our infrastructure is obtained. Through this switch we provide all other switches with uplinks.
DDoS Protection: Since December 2019, we have been using the Aurologic DDoS Protection with Corebackbone pre-filtering in Frankfurt and Eygelshoven. Customers benefit from a dynamic and highly optimized DDoS protection, especially for services like "Gameserver" and "Teamspeak Server". We also offer a DDoS Manager for each server at this location.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
IP networks
We have our own IP networks at this location as an official RIPE member and therefore offer the booking of own IP addresses.
London, UK
With our location in London (UK) in the OVH data center, we are expanding our coverage in Europe. In addition to our main location "Frankfurt am Main", customers from UK specifically benefit from our location in London. Other European countries on the mainland already have excellent latency to Frankfurt, so there is no need here to offer additional locations on the mainland.
Hardware: Rented Intel server processors and Intel OC gaming CPUs with high clock rates are used. Only NVMe SSD hard disks are used.
DDoS Protection: The DDoS Protection in the data center is very strong and withstands even heavy attacks without losses.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
Helsinki, Finland
Our data center in Helsinki, Finland convinces with short intervention times in case of problems. Especially players and users from the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), as well as from parts of Russia, Belarus and Sweden benefit from the location of the data center.
Hardware: We rely on over-clocked CPUs, 64 GB for our game-server host server with DDR4 regECC memory and fast NVMe SSDs. VPS are hosted on server CPUs with at least 14 cores.
DDoS Protection: The site in Helsinki, Finland offers optimal DDoS protection with a possible mitigation of up to 2 Tbit/s.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
Los Angeles, USA (West)
At the PsychZ data center in the state of California, we have moved to a location with our own hardware and network technology.
Hardware: We use our own network hardware (Juniper QFX5100 switches) with 40G QSFP+ uplinks. In this location we mainly use HP C7000 Bladecenter servers with powerful XEON CPUs at clock rates between 2.8 and 3.8 GHz.
DDoS Protection:
Since December 2019, we have been using the Aurologic DDoS Protection with Corebackbone pre-filtering in Frankfurt and Eygelshoven. Customers benefit from a dynamic and highly optimized DDoS protection, especially for services like "Gameserver" and "Teamspeak Server". We also offer a DDoS Manager for each server at this location.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
IP networks
We have our own IP networks at this location as an official RIPE member and therefore offer the booking of own IP addresses.
Dallas, USA (Central)
At the PsychZ Data Center in the State of Texas we have moved into a location with our own hardware and network technology.
Hardware: We use our own network hardware (Juniper EX3300 switches) with 4x 10G SFP+ uplinks. At this location we rely on Dell R720 servers with powerful XEON CPUs at clock speeds between 3 and 3.4 GHz.
DDoS Protection: The location is equipped with a strong DDoS Protection protected, that offers optimal protection and performance against stronger DDoS attacks, optimized for Gameservers.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
IP networks
We have our own IP networks at this location as an official RIPE member and therefore offer the booking of own IP addresses.
Ashburn, USA (East)
In the PsychZ data center in the state of Virginia, we have a location with our own hardware and network technology.
Hardware: We use our own network hardware (Juniper QFX5100 switches) with 40G QSFP+ uplinks. In this location we mainly use HP C7000 Bladecenter Servers with powerful XEON CPUs at clock speeds between 2.8 and 3.8 GHz.
DDoS Protection:
Since December 2019, we have been using the Aurologic DDoS Protection with Corebackbone pre-filtering in Frankfurt and Eygelshoven. Customers benefit from a dynamic and highly optimized DDoS protection, especially for services like "Gameserver" and "Teamspeak Server". We also offer a DDoS Manager for each server at this location.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
IP networks
We have our own IP networks at this location as an official RIPE member and therefore offer the booking of own IP addresses.
Montreal, Canada
With the location Montreal (more precisely: Beauharnois) at the OVH Data Center in Canada we do not only cover the east coast of Canada, but also the east coast of America, especially American metropolises like New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, etc., so for the northern US east coast optimal pings are to be expected.
Hardware: Rented Intel server processors and Intel OC gaming CPUs with high clock speeds are used. Only SSD hard disks are used.
DDoS Protection: The DDoS Protection in the data center is well-engineered and can withstand stronger attacks without major loss problems.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
Sydney, Australia
Location Sydney in OVH data center in Australia covers the entire Australian area (OCE), as well as New Zealand. Players from this room benefit from extremely short ping times and no longer have to switch to American or South Asian servers.
Hardware: Rented Intel server processors and Intel OC gaming CPUs with high clock rates are used. Only NVMe SSD hard disks are used.
DDoS Protection: The DDoS Protection in the data center is well-engineered and can withstand stronger attacks without major loss problems.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.
Singapore, Asia
With the Singapore location in the OVH data center in Asia, we cover the entire Southeast-Asian region (SEA). Particularly players from metropolitan areas and countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam benefit from this location.
Hardware: Rented Intel server processors and Intel OC gaming CPUs with high clock rates are used. Only NVMe SSD hard disks are used.
DDoS Protection: The DDoS Protection in the data center is well-engineered and can withstand stronger attacks without major loss problems.
On-site personnel: Our technicians are available around the clock in case of problems and will be informed fully automatically by our monitoring system whenever intervention is necessary. This allows immediate intervention of a technician on site.