Normal, United States

VPS for Coding in Normal

A machine with root on it, your own toolchain, and cores nothing else competes for.

Configure your build server → Recommended from $305.50 USD / month
  • Root access, any language
  • Dedicated cores
  • Same price in all 24 locations
Closest location live
Normal and its closest data centre Normal joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 190 km away. Normal Chicago Illinois, United States
190 km from Normal
3–6 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Normal. 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.

A machine, not a platform

Most managed hosting decides what you may install. A server does not: you get an operating system and administrator rights, and everything above that is your choice.

Any runtime, any version

Install the compiler, SDK or interpreter you need, at the version you need — including ones a managed platform has stopped supporting.

Your editor, remotely

Run VS Code Remote, JetBrains Gateway or plain SSH against it. The machine keeps running when you close the laptop.

Repeatable build times

On a shared class you get processor time when it is spare, so the same build takes a different time each run. Dedicated cores remove that variance.

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 Normal. Chicago Normal

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Normal ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 190 km 3–6 ms
Atlanta, United States 855 km 13–26 ms
Toronto, Canada 866 km 13–26 ms
Dallas, United States 1,106 km 17–33 ms
New York, United States 1,264 km 19–38 ms
Miami, United States 1,831 km 27–55 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,672 km 40–80 ms
Seattle, United States 2,754 km 41–83 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,856 km 43–86 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,540 km 98–196 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,796 km 102–204 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,899 km 103–207 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,069 km 106–212 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,152 km 107–215 ms
Milan, Italy 7,474 km 112–224 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,565 km 128–257 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,090 km 151–303 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,194 km 153–306 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,209 km 183–366 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,629 km 189–379 ms
Kolkata, India 12,995 km 195–390 ms
Mumbai, India 13,128 km 197–394 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,735 km 221–442 ms
Singapore 15,182 km 228–455 ms

Distances are from Normal. 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.

Development servers for Normal

We host servers for companies throughout Normal, 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 190 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.

VPS for Coding in Normal — FAQs

Can I use it as a remote development machine?
Yes. SSH in, or point VS Code Remote or JetBrains Gateway at it. Because it is a server rather than a session, long jobs keep running after you disconnect.
Which languages and frameworks are supported?
All of them. There is no supported-language list because there is nothing between you and the operating system — you install what you need.
Do I get root?
From the first login. Install packages, open ports, change the kernel parameters, run containers. It is your machine.
How much does a coding server cost in Normal?
From $305.50 USD per month for 16 GB RAM · 8 Cores · 250 GB. The same price applies in all 24 locations.

Other servers in Normal

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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