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# Check your Salesforce Hosting

Maica connects natively to the NDIS APis as well as hosts sensitive Participant information, so it is a requirement to host your underlying Salesforce instance in Australia. This article shows you how to check if your Salesforce instance is hosted in Australia.

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Should you find that your Salesforce instance is **not** hosted in Australia, you can [contact us](https://www.maica.com.au/contact-us) to assist with the migration of this.
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How to check your Salesforce hosting location.
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To check your hosting for Saleforce, follow the steps outlined below:

1. Log into your Salesforce instance
2. Go to `Setup`
3. Type `Company Information`
4. Check the `Instance` value&#x20;
5. Go to <https://availability.salesforce.com/find-my-instance/>&#x20;
6. Copy & Paste the `Instance` value to see where your instance is located