Manchester, United Kingdom

University Hosting in Manchester

Servers for research groups, departmental applications and student projects, with root access for the people who need it.

Configure your product server → Recommended from $287.75 USD / month
  • Root access per project
  • Daily off-server backups
  • Scale up for term time
Closest location live
Manchester and its closest data centre Manchester joined by a link to the London data centre, 256 km away. Manchester London United Kingdom
256 km from Manchester
4–8 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Manchester. 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

Configure

Dedicated

High performance

Dedicated cores for build servers, background jobs and anything with a queue that must not fall behind.


$298.75USD

per month

Configure
Hourly only

Burstable

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 hour

Raise 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.

Europe, Middle East & Africa coverage 8 live
Europe, Middle East & Africa data centre locations 8 locations across Europe, Middle East & Africa, with London marked as the closest to Manchester. London Manchester

Manchester is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Manchester ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 256 km 4–8 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 494 km 7–15 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 836 km 13–25 ms
Milan, Italy 1,208 km 18–36 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 1,406 km 21–42 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,450 km 22–43 ms
Bucharest, Romania 2,280 km 34–68 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 3,774 km 57–113 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 5,371 km 81–161 ms
Toronto, Canada 5,497 km 82–165 ms
Chicago, United States 6,130 km 92–184 ms
Atlanta, United States 6,569 km 99–197 ms
Miami, United States 6,954 km 104–209 ms
Dallas, United States 7,421 km 111–223 ms
Seattle, United States 7,444 km 112–223 ms
Santa Clara, United States 8,382 km 126–251 ms
Los Angeles, United States 8,508 km 128–255 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 6,834 km 103–205 ms
Mumbai, India 7,337 km 110–220 ms
Kolkata, India 8,051 km 121–242 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,451 km 142–284 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,627 km 144–289 ms
Singapore 10,941 km 164–328 ms
Sydney, Australia 17,002 km 255–510 ms

Distances are from Manchester. 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 Manchester

We host servers for companies across Manchester — from the City Centre, the Northern Quarter, Salford, Deansgate and Didsbury — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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.

London is our closest location at 256 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 Manchester — FAQs

Can each department have its own server?
Yes, and it is usually the better arrangement. Each group gets root on its own machine, its own backups and its own bill, instead of contending for a shared one.
Can we scale for term time?
Memory, cores and disk go up on the same server by hand, usually within the hour, and come back down when the peak passes.
Do you offer purchase orders or invoicing?
Talk to us about billing arrangements — a fixed monthly price per machine is generally easier to put through institutional procurement than metered cloud usage.
How much does university hosting cost in Manchester?
From $287.75 USD per month for 16 GB RAM · 8 Cores · 200 GB, the same in all 24 locations.

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