Alma, Canada

IT & SaaS VPS in Alma

Run your product, its database and its background jobs side by side. Built by hand, usually the same day.

Configure your product server → Recommended from $287.75 USD / month
  • App, database and queue on one box
  • Same price in all 24 locations
  • Staging copy included
Closest location live
Alma and its closest data centre Alma joined by a link to the Toronto data centre, 807 km away. Alma Toronto Ontario, Canada
807 km from Alma
12–24 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alma. 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.

What fits alongside what

A product server is rarely running one thing. The application, its database, a cache and a queue all share the same memory, and the split between them decides how far the machine goes before anything has to move.

One machine, one hop

An application and its database on the same server talk over a socket rather than a network. That is faster and cheaper than splitting them, and it is the right starting point for almost every product.

The database sets the floor

Postgres and MySQL want memory they can keep. Give the database its share first and size the rest around it, rather than discovering the shortfall under load.

Split when they compete

The moment the application and the database are fighting for the same memory — or you want to restart one without the other — it is time for a second server. Not before.

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 Toronto marked as the closest to Alma. Toronto Alma

Alma is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Alma ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Toronto, Canada 807 km 12–24 ms
New York, United States 891 km 13–27 ms
Chicago, United States 1,451 km 22–44 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,955 km 29–59 ms
Miami, United States 2,641 km 40–79 ms
Dallas, United States 2,730 km 41–82 ms
Seattle, United States 3,697 km 55–111 ms
Los Angeles, United States 4,136 km 62–124 ms
Santa Clara, United States 4,196 km 63–126 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 4,912 km 74–147 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5,177 km 78–155 ms
Madrid, Spain 5,285 km 79–159 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 5,530 km 83–166 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 5,530 km 83–166 ms
Milan, Italy 5,842 km 88–175 ms
Bucharest, Romania 6,956 km 104–209 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 8,467 km 127–254 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,150 km 152–304 ms
Delhi NCR, India 10,907 km 164–327 ms
Mumbai, India 11,713 km 176–351 ms
Kolkata, India 11,860 km 178–356 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,114 km 182–363 ms
Singapore 14,449 km 217–433 ms
Sydney, Australia 16,140 km 242–484 ms

Distances are from Alma. 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.

SaaS hosting for Alma

We host servers for companies throughout Alma, QC and the rest of Canada. 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.

Toronto is our closest location at 807 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.

IT & SaaS VPS in Alma — FAQs

Can I run the app and the database on one server?
Yes, and most products should to begin with. One machine means one round trip between the application and its database instead of a network hop, and it is markedly cheaper. The diagram above shows a typical split of memory between them.
When should I split onto a second server?
When the database and the application start competing for the same memory, or when you want to restart one without the other. That is a judgement about your product rather than a fixed threshold, and we are happy to look at it with you.
Which hardware class should I choose?
General purpose for anything with real users. Dedicated for build servers and queues that must not fall behind. Availability for internal tools and staging. Burstable only for development boxes.
How fast will it feel from Alma?
An estimated 12–24 ms to Toronto, our closest location at 807 km. That is calculated from fibre distance rather than measured — and what matters more is the round trip your own customers make, so host near them if they are elsewhere.
How much does it cost in Alma?
From $276.75 USD per month, with $287.75 USD on General purpose the usual starting point for a product with customers. The same prices apply in all 24 locations.

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