Moodle hosting in Australia

AWS in Sydney. 99.9% uptime. Support from people who know Moodle.

Managed Moodle hosting on AWS in Australia.

99.9%

uptime, redundant infrastructure

1.2s

page load, tuned for AU users

5K+

concurrent users at peak

24/7

Moodle support

infrastructure

AWS in Sydney

  • Australia (ap-southeast-2), multi-AZ
  • Multi-AZ redundancy and failover
  • CloudFront CDN
  • Data stays in Australia
  • Auto-scaling EC2
  • RDS (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
  • ElastiCache Redis
  • S3 for files

performance

Caching

Redis

  • Application
  • Session
  • Request
  • Lock store

CDN

  • Static assets
  • Course files
  • Media
  • Theme

Database

  • Query cache
  • Read replicas
  • Pooling
  • Indexes
  • Average response < 200ms
  • Query time < 50ms
  • Cache hit rate > 95%
  • Concurrent users 5000+
  • PHP OpCache
  • HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
  • WebP images, lazy loading
  • Moodle-specific query tuning

security

Security

  • WAF: AWS WAF with custom rules
  • DDoS: Shield Standard
  • SSL/TLS: auto-renew
  • Firewall: network and application
  • Encryption: at rest and in transit
  • AWS is ISO 27001 certified
  • Australian Privacy Act
  • 24/7 security monitoring
  • Regular audits
  • Automated patching

backup

Backups

Daily backups

30-day retention

Point-in-time

Any point in the last 7 days

Geo-redundant

Replicated across regions

RTO < 4 hours · RPO < 1 hour

plans

Plans

Starter

$299/mo

  • Up to 500 users
  • 50GB storage
  • Daily backups
  • SSL
  • Email support

Small institutions

most popular

Professional

$799/mo

  • Up to 2,500 users
  • 250GB storage
  • Redis
  • CDN
  • Priority support
  • 99.9% SLA

Growing schools

Enterprise

Custom

  • Unlimited users
  • Unlimited storage
  • Multi-server cluster
  • Load balancing
  • 24/7 phone
  • Custom integrations

Universities & large orgs

All plans: install, security updates, monitoring, weekly reports, migration help.

migration

Migration

  1. Assessment: current setup
  2. Planning: timeline
  3. Migration: data, users, config
  4. Validation: check the site, then go live
  • User accounts and profiles
  • Course content
  • Files and resources
  • Grades and assessments
  • Plugins and themes
  • Custom configuration

faq

Hosting questions

What Moodle versions?

Currently supported Moodle releases. We prefer LTS. Upgrades included.

Own domain?

Yes. We help with DNS and SSL.

Plugins?

Full admin access. We test compatibility before upgrades and can write custom ones.

How fast to start?

New installs in 24 hours. Migrations usually 2–5 days.

Training?

Admin and teacher packages, plus the Moodle Tips channel.

Need to scale?

Auto-scales for spikes. Upgrade a plan without a data migration.

Need hosting?

Free migration, no setup fees, 30-day money-back.