Chicago, United States
Basic VPS in Chicago
A small, dependable server for a site, a bot or a side project. Built by hand, usually the same day.
- ✓ Four hardware classes
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Built by hand, usually same day
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Chicago. Your real figure depends on your connection and route, and lands inside this range.
Choose how the processor is shared
Every class ships the same hardware menu and the same Ubuntu Server 24.04 (LTS) 64-bit image. What changes is how the processor is shared — and the price moves with it.
Availability
Budget friendly
Shared processor time is plenty for a site, a bot or a side project that is idle most of the day.
$49.95USD
per month
ConfigureGeneral purpose
The usual choice
Worth the difference if the box runs something people wait on — a small API, a dashboard used during working hours.
$60.95USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
More machine than a small project needs. Sensible only if something on it must never share a core.
$71.95USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
Burst capable
For work with a definite end: a migration, a scrape, a batch job. Booked by the hour and taken down afterwards.
$0.1380USD
per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed
Book by the hourOutgrowing it is normal and easy to fix — memory, cores and disk all go up on the same server, by hand, usually within the hour.
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server. Choose the region closest to whoever visits the site or uses the bot. For a small server that is usually one country, and picking the right one is the cheapest speed improvement available to you.
Chicago has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Chicago ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 704 km | 11–21 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 945 km | 14–28 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,146 km | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,292 km | 19–39 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,915 km | 29–57 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,789 km | 42–84 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,802 km | 42–84 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,961 km | 44–89 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,356 km | 95–191 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,612 km | 99–198 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,728 km | 101–202 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,884 km | 103–207 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,968 km | 105–209 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,293 km | 109–219 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,380 km | 126–251 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,906 km | 149–297 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,143 km | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,039 km | 181–361 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,535 km | 188–376 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,840 km | 193–385 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,950 km | 194–389 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,874 km | 223–446 ms |
| Singapore | 15,074 km | 226–452 ms |
Distances are from Chicago. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Full root access from day one
Daily off-server backups
Any Linux image, or Windows if you need it
Move up a size without rebuilding
Included with every Basic server, in every class, at every location.
Basic hosting for Chicago
We host servers for companies across Chicago — from the Loop, River North, Lincoln Park, Wicker Park and the West Loop — and the setup is the same wherever you are: you tell us what the server is for, we build it by hand, and you get access and the login details the same working day.
Chicago is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
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