Essex, United States

Software VPS in Essex

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
Essex and its closest data centre Essex joined by a link to the New York data centre, 262 km away. Essex New York New York, United States
262 km from Essex
4–8 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Essex. 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.

Americas coverage 9 live
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with New York marked as the closest to Essex. New York Essex

Essex is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Essex ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 262 km 4–8 ms
Toronto, Canada 540 km 8–16 ms
Atlanta, United States 939 km 14–28 ms
Chicago, United States 983 km 15–30 ms
Miami, United States 1,546 km 23–46 ms
Dallas, United States 1,961 km 29–59 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,737 km 56–112 ms
Seattle, United States 3,756 km 56–113 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,931 km 59–118 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 5,832 km 87–175 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,025 km 90–181 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,124 km 92–184 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,464 km 97–194 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,571 km 99–197 ms
Milan, Italy 6,726 km 101–202 ms
Bucharest, Romania 7,911 km 119–237 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,377 km 141–281 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,891 km 163–327 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,000 km 180–360 ms
Mumbai, India 12,784 km 192–384 ms
Kolkata, India 12,956 km 194–389 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,073 km 196–392 ms
Singapore 15,494 km 232–465 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,764 km 236–473 ms

Distances are from Essex. 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 Essex

We host servers for companies throughout Essex, MD 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.

New York is our closest location at 262 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 Essex — 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 Essex?
An estimated 4–8 ms to New York at 262 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 Essex?
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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