North Chicago, United States

University Hosting in North Chicago

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
North Chicago and its closest data centre North Chicago joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 53 km away. North Chicago Chicago Illinois, United States
53 km from North Chicago
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from North Chicago. 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.

Americas coverage 9 live
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Chicago marked as the closest to North Chicago. Chicago North Chicago

North Chicago is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from North Chicago ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 53 km 1–2 ms
Toronto, Canada 703 km 11–21 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,000 km 15–30 ms
New York, United States 1,164 km 17–35 ms
Dallas, United States 1,321 km 20–40 ms
Miami, United States 1,970 km 30–59 ms
Seattle, United States 2,752 km 41–83 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,794 km 42–84 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,944 km 44–88 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,332 km 95–190 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,586 km 99–198 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,715 km 101–201 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,849 km 103–205 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,942 km 104–208 ms
Milan, Italy 7,271 km 109–218 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,351 km 125–251 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,880 km 148–296 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,091 km 151–303 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,992 km 180–360 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,480 km 187–374 ms
Kolkata, India 12,788 km 192–384 ms
Mumbai, India 12,906 km 194–387 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,867 km 223–446 ms
Singapore 15,019 km 225–451 ms

Distances are from North Chicago. 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 North Chicago

We host servers for companies throughout North Chicago, IL 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 53 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 North Chicago — 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 North Chicago?
From $287.75 USD per month for 16 GB RAM · 8 Cores · 200 GB, the same in all 24 locations.

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