Sparks, United States
University Hosting in Sparks
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 Sparks. 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.
Sparks is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Sparks ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 309 km | 5–9 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 624 km | 9–19 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 921 km | 14–28 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,186 km | 33–66 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,704 km | 41–81 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,199 km | 48–96 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,355 km | 50–101 ms |
| New York, United States | 3,847 km | 58–115 ms |
| Miami, United States | 3,969 km | 60–119 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 8,326 km | 125–250 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,358 km | 125–251 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 8,488 km | 127–255 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 8,848 km | 133–265 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 9,017 km | 135–271 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 9,281 km | 139–278 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 10,073 km | 151–302 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,629 km | 174–349 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,358 km | 125–251 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 11,150 km | 167–335 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,241 km | 184–367 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 12,245 km | 184–367 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,517 km | 188–376 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,367 km | 201–401 ms |
| Singapore | 13,669 km | 205–410 ms |
Distances are from Sparks. 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 Sparks
We host servers for companies throughout Sparks, NV 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.
Santa Clara is our closest location at 309 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 Sparks — FAQs
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