Cardiff, United Kingdom

Software VPS in Cardiff

Dedicated cores for builds, CI and compute that cannot wait its turn. Built by hand, usually the same day.

Configure your build server → Recommended from $294.50 USD / month
  • Dedicated cores throughout
  • Same price in all 24 locations
  • Root access, any toolchain
Closest location live
Cardiff and its closest data centre Cardiff joined by a link to the London data centre, 211 km away. Cardiff London United Kingdom
211 km from Cardiff
3–6 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Cardiff. 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

Configure
Recommended for builds

Dedicated

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

Configure
Hourly only

Burstable

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 hour

Add 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.

Europe, Middle East & Africa coverage 8 live
Europe, Middle East & Africa data centre locations 8 locations across Europe, Middle East & Africa, with London marked as the closest to Cardiff. London Cardiff

Cardiff is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Cardiff ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 211 km 3–6 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 563 km 8–17 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 847 km 13–25 ms
Milan, Italy 1,129 km 17–34 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,231 km 18–37 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 1,590 km 24–48 ms
Bucharest, Romania 2,299 km 34–69 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 3,751 km 56–113 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 5,369 km 81–161 ms
Toronto, Canada 5,520 km 83–166 ms
Chicago, United States 6,166 km 92–185 ms
Atlanta, United States 6,570 km 99–197 ms
Miami, United States 6,918 km 104–208 ms
Dallas, United States 7,451 km 112–224 ms
Seattle, United States 7,570 km 114–227 ms
Santa Clara, United States 8,487 km 127–255 ms
Los Angeles, United States 8,598 km 129–258 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 6,938 km 104–208 ms
Mumbai, India 7,403 km 111–222 ms
Kolkata, India 8,167 km 123–245 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,669 km 145–290 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,801 km 147–294 ms
Singapore 11,054 km 166–332 ms
Sydney, Australia 17,176 km 258–515 ms

Distances are from Cardiff. 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 Cardiff

We host servers for companies across Cardiff — from the City Centre, Cardiff Bay, Cathays, Pontcanna and Roath — 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.

London is our closest location at 211 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.

Software VPS in Cardiff — FAQs

Can I run my own CI runners on it?
Yes. It is your server with root access, so self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, GitLab runners, Jenkins agents or anything else you want to install. No per-minute billing and no queue you are sharing with strangers.
Why does the hardware class matter so much for builds?
Compilation is sustained load from the first second to the last. Shared classes give you processor time when it is spare, which makes build times vary; dedicated cores do not, so a build takes as long as it takes and no longer.
Which runtimes and languages can I use?
All of them. You choose the image and install what you like — there is no supported-language list, because there is nothing between you and the machine.
How fast will it feel from Cardiff?
An estimated 3–6 ms to London at 211 km. For a build server what usually matters more is the round trip to your package registry and your git host, so pick the region closest to those and to the people pushing code.
How much does it cost in Cardiff?
From $283.50 USD per month, with $294.50 USD on the Dedicated class for compilation work. The same prices apply in all 24 locations.

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