Mason City, United States

Software VPS in Mason City

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 $305.50 USD / month
  • Dedicated cores throughout
  • Same price in all 24 locations
  • Root access, any toolchain
Closest location live
Mason City and its closest data centre Mason City joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 478 km away. Mason City Chicago Illinois, United States
478 km from Mason City
7–14 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Mason City. 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

General purpose

Recommended

Consistent processor time, which keeps build times roughly repeatable.


$294.50USD

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 Chicago marked as the closest to Mason City. Chicago Mason City

Mason City is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Mason City ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 478 km 7–14 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,116 km 17–33 ms
Dallas, United States 1,196 km 18–36 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,295 km 19–39 ms
New York, United States 1,607 km 24–48 ms
Miami, United States 2,266 km 34–68 ms
Seattle, United States 2,314 km 35–69 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,388 km 36–72 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,510 km 38–75 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,591 km 99–198 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,826 km 102–205 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,010 km 105–210 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,046 km 106–211 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,187 km 108–216 ms
Milan, Italy 7,540 km 113–226 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,570 km 129–257 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,116 km 152–303 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 9,746 km 146–292 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,986 km 180–360 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,215 km 183–366 ms
Kolkata, India 12,705 km 191–381 ms
Mumbai, India 12,951 km 194–389 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,455 km 217–434 ms
Singapore 14,782 km 222–443 ms

Distances are from Mason City. 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 Mason City

We host servers for companies throughout Mason City, IA 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 478 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 Mason City — 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 Mason City?
An estimated 7–14 ms to Chicago at 478 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 Mason City?
From $283.50 USD per month, with $305.50 USD on the Dedicated class for compilation work. The same prices apply in all 24 locations.

Other servers in Mason City

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