Hong Kong
HK1The top pick for East Asia. Premium backbone routing gives SSH sessions a near-LAN feel—great for daily remote coding and on-device testing.
Four sites across Asia-Pacific plus one on the US West Coast. Check measured median latency, model availability, and network specs—five minutes to find the Mac mini closest to you and the App Store.
Each region runs an independently racked Mac mini cluster, online 365 days a year with no scheduled downtime windows. Facility tiers below.
The top pick for East Asia. Premium backbone routing gives SSH sessions a near-LAN feel—great for daily remote coding and on-device testing.
All three tiers are available to order year-round. Balanced latency to East Asia, Korea, and the US West Coast—a solid middle ground for distributed teams.
The natural access point for Southeast Asia-focused teams, with better latency to Jakarta, Bangkok, and Mumbai than any of our other five regions.
Our newest APAC region, offering all three tiers—built for teams based in Korea or serving both Korean and Japanese markets.
The shortest path to App Store Connect uploads—fastlane deliver runs steadily at full bandwidth here. All three tiers in stock.
Check this table before you order. Each tier is offered in the regions shown below; the configurations actually available at order time are returned live by the portal.
| Tier | Hong Kong HK1 | Tokyo JP1 | Singapore SG1 | Seoul KR1 | Silicon Valley SJC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini SM4 · 16GB · 256GB · $19.9/day | |||||
| Mini MM4 · 24GB · 512GB · $39.7/day | |||||
| Mini ProM4 Pro · 64GB · 2TB · $60.5/day |
Full spec and daily/monthly pricing breakdown on the rental plans page.
Data reflects the median of hourly ICMP probes over the past 30 days, sampled from a mix of mainstream residential ISPs and datacenter uplinks in each region, in milliseconds. Your actual numbers will vary with your local ISP route—verify with the commands below before ordering.
| Region | Shanghai | Tokyo | Seoul | New York |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong HK1 | 32 ms | 48 ms | 62 ms | 205 ms |
| Tokyo JP1 | 55 ms | 2 ms | 34 ms | 158 ms |
| Singapore SG1 | 88 ms | 68 ms | 78 ms | 232 ms |
| Seoul KR1 | 68 ms | 35 ms | 2 ms | 172 ms |
| Silicon Valley SJC | 152 ms | 105 ms | 128 ms | 68 ms |
# run from your machine; swap host for any node below mtr -rwzbc 100 hk1.oncemini.com ping -c 20 sjc.oncemini.com # median of 100 probes ≈ the table above; jitter > 15ms means try another ISP route
Rule-of-thumb thresholds for SSH usability: ≤80 ms feels instant when typing, 80–150 ms is still comfortable to work in, and above 150 ms you'll want VNC or mosh instead. Test hosts are listed at the bottom of this page.
32 ms median latency puts both SSH and VNC in the "feels instant" zone. Remote coding, on-device testing, and incremental Xcode builds feel about as close to a local Mac as you'll get. If you ever want a nearby alternative, Tokyo JP1 at 55 ms is still comfortably workable.
App Store Connect's upload endpoints live in North America, so round trips from our West Coast regions land in the 20 ms range. The same 200 MB .ipa uploads 3–5x faster from the West Coast than from Asia-Pacific, and fastlane deliver timeouts basically disappear. If your pipeline handles both build and submission, the West Coast is the least friction.
55 ms to Shanghai, 34 ms to Seoul, 105 ms to the West Coast—Tokyo is the most balanced of the five across every direction. If a team split between Asia and the US shares one machine for build shifts, Tokyo keeps latency workable for both sides, with all three tiers available to order year-round.
mtr, then switch regions if it's not the right fit—snapshots are portable. See rental plans for details, and support for migration steps.
Network specs don't vary by tier or region—you never pay extra for bandwidth.
Dedicated upload and download bandwidth per machine, not a shared pool. iperf3 tests consistently hit 940 Mbps+, with no throttling and no oversubscription.
No bandwidth billing, no monthly cap, no throttling past a quota. Pull CI dependencies constantly, upload .ipa files, sync model weights—no need to track usage.
Each region connects through 3+ upstream carriers with automatic BGP routing; a single upstream failure fails over in seconds without dropping your SSH session.
One dedicated IPv4 address per machine, plus a free IPv6 /64 block. The default firewall template only opens SSH and VNC ports.
All five regions run in Tier III or higher facilities holding ISO 27001 certification. Racks are individually locked behind two-factor access control, with 90 days of video footage retained. Your data never leaves the jurisdiction of the region you choose.
Three-tier redundancy of A/B utility feeds, UPS, and diesel generators, with independent PDU monitoring per rack. Every region runs 365 days a year with no scheduled downtime windows—see our trust & security page for full SLA terms.
Every Mac mini is purchased new through Apple's official enterprise channels and racked sealed—never opened, modified, or built from used parts. Serial numbers are included with your delivery email so you can verify warranty status yourself.
Test before you order: ping / mtr the test hostname, then wget a speed test file to see real throughput. Files are random byte streams available in 100MB and 1GB sizes, with no limit on how many times you run them.
hk1.oncemini.comhk1.oncemini.com/speed/100MB.binhk1.oncemini.com/speed/1GB.binjp1.oncemini.comjp1.oncemini.com/speed/100MB.binjp1.oncemini.com/speed/1GB.binsg1.oncemini.comsg1.oncemini.com/speed/100MB.binsg1.oncemini.com/speed/1GB.binkr1.oncemini.comkr1.oncemini.com/speed/100MB.binkr1.oncemini.com/speed/1GB.binsjc.oncemini.comsjc.oncemini.com/speed/100MB.binsjc.oncemini.com/speed/1GB.binExample: wget -O /dev/null https://hk1.oncemini.com/speed/100MB.bin. Speed test hosts are deployed separately from user machines, so results reflect the true performance of the 1 Gbps line on the machine you rent.
$ rent --region hk1 --chip m4 --days 1
Choose your region and tier when ordering through the portal—the actual availability at order time is returned live by the portal.