Fiddlesticks, Canada
University Hosting in Fiddlesticks
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 Fiddlesticks. 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.
Fiddlesticks is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Fiddlesticks ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 78 km | 1–2 ms |
| New York, United States | 598 km | 9–18 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 624 km | 9–19 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,130 km | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,860 km | 28–56 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,961 km | 29–59 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 3,269 km | 49–98 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 3,419 km | 51–103 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 3,555 km | 53–107 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,787 km | 87–174 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,056 km | 91–182 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,114 km | 92–183 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,396 km | 96–192 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,407 km | 96–192 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 6,713 km | 101–201 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 7,835 km | 118–235 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,343 km | 140–280 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,338 km | 155–310 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 11,699 km | 175–351 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,548 km | 188–376 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,560 km | 188–377 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,589 km | 189–378 ms |
| Singapore | 15,023 km | 225–451 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 15,493 km | 232–465 ms |
Distances are from Fiddlesticks. 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 Fiddlesticks
We host servers for companies throughout Fiddlesticks, ON 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 78 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 Fiddlesticks — FAQs
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