San Francisco, United States
University Hosting in San Francisco
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 San Francisco. 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.
San Francisco is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from San Francisco ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 62 km | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 559 km | 8–17 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,093 km | 16–33 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,383 km | 36–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,985 km | 45–90 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,437 km | 52–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,644 km | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 4,129 km | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,170 km | 63–125 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,275 km | 124–248 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 11,096 km | 166–333 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 11,948 km | 179–358 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,358 km | 185–371 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,573 km | 189–377 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,494 km | 202–405 ms |
| Singapore | 13,582 km | 204–407 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 8,616 km | 129–258 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,622 km | 129–259 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 8,773 km | 132–263 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 9,133 km | 137–274 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 9,318 km | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 9,571 km | 144–287 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 10,343 km | 155–310 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,895 km | 178–357 ms |
Distances are from San Francisco. 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 San Francisco
We host servers for companies across San Francisco — from SoMa, the Mission, the Financial District, the Marina and Nob Hill — 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.
Santa Clara is our closest location at 62 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 San Francisco — FAQs
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