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VPS in Novosibirsk: a Russian server for Siberia and the Far East
Novosibirsk is the largest network hub east of the Urals. Backbones linking European Russia with Siberia, the Far East and Kazakhstan run through the city, and it has a regional internet exchange point and commercial data centres of national and local hosts. Almost the entire Russian virtual server market is concentrated in Moscow and St Petersburg, and a Novosibirsk location is needed when the capital is too far from your users.
Latency: what Siberia gains
Moscow is about 2,800 km from Novosibirsk as the crow flies, and further by cable, so for a Siberian user a server in the capital usually means 45–60 ms per request. That is tolerable for a website, but for games, remote desktop, VoIP and networked 1C the difference is already noticeable. Benchmarks from Novosibirsk with normal routing:
- Tomsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Omsk: single-digit milliseconds; Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk: about 10–25 ms;
- Yekaterinburg: about 20–30 ms, Moscow: 45–60 ms;
- Vladivostok and Khabarovsk: about 50–70 ms, versus 100–130 ms from Moscow;
- northern and eastern Kazakhstan: usually 20–40 ms, depending on the operator.
Hence the main rule: a Novosibirsk server pays off when most of your audience lives east of the Urals. If your users are all over the country, Moscow is more convenient as the point with the most direct links to operators, and a Siberian node can be added as a second one. For a project with most users in Kazakhstan, compare latency with locations in the country itself from the VPS in Kazakhstan selection: a local server is usually closer to Almaty and Astana than a Novosibirsk one.
A plan in Novosibirsk, or only on the list?
The city in the selection comes from the host's list of locations. Many national providers keep five to ten Russian locations, some plans have one price for all cities, and sometimes the plan name even mentions a different city. Before paying, check:
- that the "Novosibirsk" location is selected in the order form rather than the default, which is usually Moscow;
- whether the whole plan is available in Novosibirsk: sometimes cheap promo configurations exist only in the capital;
- the ping to the test IP from your own connection in Siberia: a genuine Novosibirsk server is single-digit milliseconds away from neighbouring cities, while 40 ms or more is a sign of a Moscow location.
Who needs a server in Novosibirsk
- Regional companies. 1C, CRM and file servers for offices in Siberia are noticeably more responsive when the server is in the same time zone and on the same network. Resource requirements are on the VPS for 1C page.
- Websites and services for Siberia and the Far East. Local portals, delivery, online booking, apps for cities from Omsk to Vladivostok.
- Game servers for players east of the Urals, who play with a ping above 50 ms on Moscow servers.
- Geographic redundancy. A copy of the main system thousands of kilometres from Moscow, on a different power grid and different backbones, will survive an outage that hits the capital's data centres.
Mind the time zone: Novosibirsk is four hours ahead of Moscow. Host maintenance scheduled for the night Moscow time falls in the morning local time, so check which time zone the provider uses when announcing maintenance.
152-FZ, documents and payment
A server in Novosibirsk is in Russia, so it is suitable for storing citizens' personal data under Russia's personal data law 152-FZ: the main database can sit here just as it can in Moscow. For information systems with higher security requirements, ask the host whether the facility is certified and which security measures it takes on; a selection of such plans is on the VPS for 152-FZ page.
Payment is the usual: most hosts accept Mir cards, many accept SBP fast payments, and legal entities get an invoice and closing documents. The payment methods for each plan are shown in the table, and the full list of Russian cities is on the VPS in Russia page.
What to consider when choosing a configuration
The Siberian climate and relatively cheap hydroelectric power make the region's facilities economical, but the choice of configurations in Novosibirsk is narrower than in Moscow: unusual hardware, large amounts of memory and GPUs are not common. For a website or a bot, 1–2 GB of memory and an NVMe disk are enough; for 1C with several users, go for 4 GB and 2 cores or more. Unlimited traffic on Russian plans usually comes at 100 Mbit/s; if the server will serve files or receive backups, ask whether you can get a 1 Gbit/s port.