Ames, United States

Dedicated Server in Ames

Cores that are yours alone — nothing else on the machine competes for them. Built by hand, usually the same day.

Configure your dedicated server → Recommended from $166.45 USD / month

Cores never shared
Same price in all 24 locations
Root access, any image

Closest location live

496 km from Ames

7–15 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Ames. 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. Cheaper, and fine where an occasional slow moment costs nothing.

$144.45USD

per month

Configure

General purpose

Recommended

Consistent processor time without paying for cores you rarely saturate.

$155.45USD

per month

Configure

Recommended

Dedicated

This plan

Cores allocated to you and nobody else, which is what makes performance repeatable rather than merely typical.

$166.45USD

per month

Configure

Hourly only

Burstable

Burst capable

Cheap while idle and throttled under sustained load — the opposite trade to this one.

$0.3192USD

per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed

Book by the hour

Add cores for a heavy period and take them off afterwards — by hand, on the same server, usually within the hour.

What you are actually buying

Every hosting company sells cores. The difference is whether they are yours when you need them, or yours when nobody else is using them.

No noisy neighbour

On a shared class another customer's spike is felt as your slowdown. Dedicated cores remove that entirely — there is nobody else scheduled on them.

Repeatable, not typical

A build, a render or a match tick takes the time it takes. That is worth more than a faster average with an unpredictable tail.

Still one machine

Root access, any image, any port. Dedicated describes how the processor is allocated, not a restriction on what you may run.

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 depends on this server being quick. Dedicated cores fix contention on the machine; they do nothing about the distance to it.

Americas coverage 9 live

Ames is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Chicago Nearest 496 km · 7–15 ms Dallas 1,067 km · 16–32 ms Toronto 1,173 km · 18–35 ms Atlanta 1,225 km · 18–37 ms New York 1,640 km · 25–49 ms Miami 2,187 km · 33–66 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Ames ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States	496 km	7–15 ms
Dallas, United States	1,067 km	16–32 ms
Toronto, Canada	1,173 km	18–35 ms
Atlanta, United States	1,225 km	18–37 ms
New York, United States	1,640 km	25–49 ms
Miami, United States	2,187 km	33–66 ms
Los Angeles, United States	2,321 km	35–70 ms
Seattle, United States	2,333 km	35–70 ms
Santa Clara, United States	2,468 km	37–74 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	6,702 km	101–201 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	6,940 km	104–208 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	7,134 km	107–214 ms
Madrid, Spain	7,141 km	107–214 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	7,300 km	110–219 ms
Milan, Italy	7,649 km	115–229 ms
Bucharest, Romania	8,687 km	130–261 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	10,232 km	153–307 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	9,818 km	147–295 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,114 km	182–363 ms
Hong Kong, China	12,310 km	185–369 ms
Kolkata, India	12,828 km	192–385 ms
Mumbai, India	13,080 km	196–392 ms
Sydney, Australia	14,395 km	216–432 ms
Singapore	14,882 km	223–446 ms

Distances are from Ames. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.

Dedicated cores, never shared with another customer

Full root access from day one

Daily off-server backups

Any Linux image, or Windows if you need it

Included with every Dedicated Server server, in every class, at every location.

Dedicated servers for Ames

We host servers for companies throughout Ames, 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 496 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.

Dedicated Server in Ames — FAQs

What makes it dedicated?

The processor cores are allocated to your server and nothing else runs on them. On the shared classes you get processor time when it is available, which is fine until a neighbour gets busy; here there is no neighbour.

When is it worth the difference?

When something on the machine must not slow down at an unpredictable moment — a checkout, a game tick, a build people are waiting on. If the server is idle most of the day, a shared class is the better buy and we will say so.

How fast will it feel from Ames?

An estimated 7–15 ms to Chicago, our closest location at 496 km. That is calculated from fibre distance rather than measured, and it is the same for every hardware class — dedicated cores change what happens on the machine, not how far away it is.

Can I change the size later?

Memory, cores and disk all go up on the same server, by hand, usually within the hour. No rebuild and no new IP.

How much does a dedicated server cost in Ames?

From $166.45 USD per month for 8 GB RAM · 4 Cores · 200 GB. The same price applies in all 24 locations.

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