Alma, Canada
University Hosting in Alma
Servers for research groups, departmental applications and student projects, with root access for the people who need it.
- ✓ Root access per project
- ✓ Daily off-server backups
- ✓ Scale up for term time
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alma. 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
Reasonable for internal tools and staging where a slow minute costs nothing.
$276.75USD
per month
ConfigureGeneral purpose
The usual choice
Predictable processor time for the application and its database side by side.
$287.75USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
Dedicated cores for build servers, background jobs and anything with a queue that must not fall behind.
$298.75USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
Development only
Only for development boxes. Throttles under sustained load, so it is a poor fit for anything customer-facing.
$0.5729USD
per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed
Book by the hourRaise memory, cores or disk on the same server as you grow — by hand, usually within the hour, without a migration.
Departments are not one customer
A university is a collection of groups with different needs and different budgets. A separate server per project is usually simpler and cheaper than negotiating shared capacity centrally.
One server per group
A research group gets root on its own machine rather than a ticket queue for a change on a shared one.
Term-time peaks
Memory, cores and disk go up on the same server for an intake or a submission deadline, and back down afterwards.
Predictable billing
A fixed monthly cost per machine, quoted in advance — easier to put on a grant or a departmental budget than usage-based cloud billing.
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 the customers using the product day to day, or to the database it talks to if that lives elsewhere.
Alma is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Alma ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 807 km | 12–24 ms |
| New York, United States | 891 km | 13–27 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,451 km | 22–44 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,955 km | 29–59 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,641 km | 40–79 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,730 km | 41–82 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 3,697 km | 55–111 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 4,136 km | 62–124 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 4,196 km | 63–126 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,912 km | 74–147 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,177 km | 78–155 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,285 km | 79–159 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,530 km | 83–166 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,530 km | 83–166 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,842 km | 88–175 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,956 km | 104–209 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 8,467 km | 127–254 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,150 km | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 10,907 km | 164–327 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 11,713 km | 176–351 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 11,860 km | 178–356 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,114 km | 182–363 ms |
| Singapore | 14,449 km | 217–433 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 16,140 km | 242–484 ms |
Distances are from Alma. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Daily off-server backups
Free SSL, issued and renewed for you
A staging copy of your environment
Root access and your choice of stack
Included with every IT & SaaS server, in every class, at every location.
University hosting for Alma
We host servers for companies throughout Alma, QC and the rest of Canada. 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.
Toronto is our closest location at 807 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.
University Hosting in Alma — FAQs
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