Iowa, United States
University Hosting in Iowa
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 Iowa. 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.
Iowa is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Iowa ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 421 km | 6–13 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,067 km | 16–32 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,107 km | 17–33 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,156 km | 17–35 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,565 km | 23–47 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,122 km | 32–64 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,388 km | 36–72 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,411 km | 36–72 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,542 km | 38–76 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,665 km | 100–200 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,907 km | 104–207 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,090 km | 106–213 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,115 km | 107–213 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,266 km | 109–218 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,611 km | 114–228 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,659 km | 130–260 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,200 km | 153–306 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,886 km | 148–297 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,127 km | 182–364 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,366 km | 185–371 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,855 km | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,084 km | 196–393 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,462 km | 217–434 ms |
| Singapore | 14,935 km | 224–448 ms |
Distances are from Iowa. 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 Iowa
We host servers for companies throughout Iowa 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 421 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 Iowa — FAQs
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