Plainfield, United States
University Hosting in Plainfield
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 Plainfield. 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.
Plainfield is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Plainfield ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 55 km | 1–2 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 755 km | 11–23 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 938 km | 14–28 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,191 km | 18–36 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,243 km | 19–37 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,911 km | 29–57 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,753 km | 41–83 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,758 km | 41–83 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,916 km | 44–87 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,407 km | 96–192 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,662 km | 100–200 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,780 km | 102–203 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,930 km | 104–208 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,018 km | 105–211 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,344 km | 110–220 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,429 km | 126–253 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,956 km | 149–299 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,135 km | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,074 km | 181–362 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,540 km | 188–376 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,868 km | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,990 km | 195–390 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,824 km | 222–445 ms |
| Singapore | 15,085 km | 226–453 ms |
Distances are from Plainfield. 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 Plainfield
We host servers for companies throughout Plainfield, 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 55 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 Plainfield — FAQs
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