Northfield, United States

Software VPS in Northfield

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
Northfield and its closest data centre Northfield joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 532 km away. Northfield Chicago Illinois, United States
532 km from Northfield
8–16 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Northfield. 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 Northfield. Chicago Northfield

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Northfield ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 532 km 8–16 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,103 km 17–33 ms
Dallas, United States 1,336 km 20–40 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,409 km 21–42 ms
New York, United States 1,618 km 24–49 ms
Seattle, United States 2,265 km 34–68 ms
Miami, United States 2,384 km 36–72 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,436 km 37–73 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,530 km 38–76 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,489 km 97–195 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,719 km 101–202 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,886 km 103–207 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,968 km 105–209 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,080 km 106–212 ms
Milan, Italy 7,440 km 112–223 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,456 km 127–254 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,006 km 150–300 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 9,638 km 145–289 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,842 km 178–355 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,087 km 181–363 ms
Kolkata, India 12,560 km 188–377 ms
Mumbai, India 12,809 km 192–384 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,488 km 217–435 ms
Singapore 14,650 km 220–440 ms

Distances are from Northfield. 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 Northfield

We host servers for companies throughout Northfield, MN 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 532 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 Northfield — 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 Northfield?
An estimated 8–16 ms to Chicago at 532 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 Northfield?
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 Northfield

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

Software hosting nearby

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