Alton, United States
IT & SaaS VPS in Alton
Run your product, its database and its background jobs side by side. Built by hand, usually the same day.
- ✓ App, database and queue on one box
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Staging copy included
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alton. 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.
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.
Alton is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Alton ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 396 km | 6–12 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 772 km | 12–23 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 904 km | 14–27 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,045 km | 16–31 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,395 km | 21–42 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,733 km | 26–52 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,555 km | 38–77 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,754 km | 41–83 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,770 km | 42–83 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,738 km | 101–202 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,998 km | 105–210 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,081 km | 106–212 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,277 km | 109–218 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,352 km | 110–221 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,671 km | 115–230 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,768 km | 132–263 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,291 km | 154–309 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,273 km | 154–308 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,408 km | 186–372 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,752 km | 191–383 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 13,179 km | 198–395 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,332 km | 200–400 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,594 km | 219–438 ms |
| Singapore | 15,317 km | 230–460 ms |
Distances are from Alton. 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 Alton
We host servers for companies throughout Alton, 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 396 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 Alton — FAQs
Can I run the app and the database on one server?
When should I split onto a second server?
Which hardware class should I choose?
How fast will it feel from Alton?
How much does it cost in Alton?
Other servers in Alton
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.
IT & SaaS hosting nearby
Other towns we host for in the region.