Alton, United States
Software VPS in Alton
Dedicated cores for builds, CI and compute that cannot wait its turn. Built by hand, usually the same day.
- ✓ Dedicated cores throughout
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Root access, any toolchain
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
Cheap for a build box that runs overnight and that nobody waits on.
$283.50USD
per month
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, which keeps build times roughly repeatable.
$294.50USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
The usual choice
Dedicated cores mean nothing else competes for them, so a build takes as long as it takes and no longer.
$305.50USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
Not for compilation
A poor fit. Throttles under sustained load, and compilation is sustained load throughout.
$0.5859USD
per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed
Book by the hourAdd cores for a heavy release week and take them off afterwards — the change is made by hand on the same server, usually within the hour.
Your toolchain, your runners
A build server is only useful if it can run what you actually build with. This is a machine with root on it, not a platform with a supported-language list.
Any runtime, any version
Install the compiler, SDK or interpreter you need, at the version you need, including the ones your CI provider stopped supporting.
Self-hosted CI runners
Point GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins at it and stop paying per build minute. The machine is yours whether it is busy or idle.
Nothing else on your cores
On the Dedicated class no other customer shares the processor, which is what makes a build time repeatable rather than merely typical.
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 people pushing code and to whatever the build pulls from — package registries and your git host are the two round trips a build makes most.
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.
Root access and your choice of toolchain
Daily off-server backups
No shared CPU — dedicated cores throughout
Any Linux image, or Windows if you build for it
Included with every Software server, in every class, at every location.
Build 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.
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