Iowa City, United States
Basic VPS in Iowa City
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 Iowa City. 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.
Iowa City is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Iowa City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 324 km | 5–10 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,017 km | 15–31 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,080 km | 16–32 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,092 km | 16–33 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,468 km | 22–44 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,051 km | 31–62 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,481 km | 37–74 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,507 km | 38–75 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,640 km | 40–79 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,606 km | 99–198 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,852 km | 103–206 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,016 km | 105–210 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,077 km | 106–212 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,210 km | 108–216 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,549 km | 113–226 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,608 km | 129–258 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,146 km | 152–304 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,961 km | 149–299 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,127 km | 182–364 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,424 km | 186–373 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,873 km | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,073 km | 196–392 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,554 km | 218–437 ms |
| Singapore | 14,988 km | 225–450 ms |
Distances are from Iowa City. 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 Iowa City
We host servers for companies throughout Iowa City, IA and the rest of United States. 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 our closest location at 324 km, which makes it the usual starting point. If the people using the server are somewhere else, host it somewhere else — every location costs the same.
Basic VPS in Iowa City — FAQs
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