Downtown DC, United States
University Hosting in Downtown DC
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 Downtown DC. 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.
Downtown DC is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Downtown DC ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 327 km | 5–10 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 565 km | 8–17 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 873 km | 13–26 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 957 km | 14–29 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,490 km | 22–45 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,903 km | 29–57 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 3,694 km | 55–111 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 3,738 km | 56–112 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 3,894 km | 58–117 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,897 km | 88–177 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,087 km | 91–183 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,190 km | 93–186 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,530 km | 98–196 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,636 km | 100–199 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 6,791 km | 102–204 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 7,977 km | 120–239 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,442 km | 142–283 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,908 km | 164–327 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,061 km | 181–362 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,848 km | 193–385 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 13,013 km | 195–390 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 13,109 km | 197–393 ms |
| Singapore | 15,539 km | 233–466 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 15,712 km | 236–471 ms |
Distances are from Downtown DC. 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 Downtown DC
We host servers for companies throughout Downtown DC, DC 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.
New York is our closest location at 327 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 Downtown DC — FAQs
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