Johnston, United States
University Hosting in Johnston
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 Johnston. 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.
Johnston is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Johnston ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 504 km | 8–15 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,026 km | 15–31 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,189 km | 18–36 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,201 km | 18–36 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,648 km | 25–49 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,160 km | 32–65 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,305 km | 35–69 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,345 km | 35–70 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,460 km | 37–74 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,734 km | 101–202 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,974 km | 105–209 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,168 km | 108–215 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,172 km | 108–215 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,334 km | 110–220 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,681 km | 115–230 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,723 km | 131–262 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,266 km | 154–308 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,845 km | 148–295 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,155 km | 182–365 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,343 km | 185–370 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,868 km | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,120 km | 197–394 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,379 km | 216–431 ms |
| Singapore | 14,916 km | 224–447 ms |
Distances are from Johnston. 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 Johnston
We host servers for companies throughout Johnston, 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 504 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 Johnston — FAQs
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