North Chicago, United States

VPS for Coding in North Chicago

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
North Chicago and its closest data centre North Chicago joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 53 km away. North Chicago Chicago Illinois, United States
53 km from North Chicago
1–2 ms estimated round trip

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

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from North Chicago ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 53 km 1–2 ms
Toronto, Canada 703 km 11–21 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,000 km 15–30 ms
New York, United States 1,164 km 17–35 ms
Dallas, United States 1,321 km 20–40 ms
Miami, United States 1,970 km 30–59 ms
Seattle, United States 2,752 km 41–83 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,794 km 42–84 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,944 km 44–88 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,332 km 95–190 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,586 km 99–198 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,715 km 101–201 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,849 km 103–205 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,942 km 104–208 ms
Milan, Italy 7,271 km 109–218 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,351 km 125–251 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,880 km 148–296 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,091 km 151–303 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,992 km 180–360 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,480 km 187–374 ms
Kolkata, India 12,788 km 192–384 ms
Mumbai, India 12,906 km 194–387 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,867 km 223–446 ms
Singapore 15,019 km 225–451 ms

Distances are from North Chicago. 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 North Chicago

We host servers for companies throughout North Chicago, 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 53 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 North Chicago — 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 North Chicago?
From $305.50 USD per month for 16 GB RAM · 8 Cores · 250 GB. The same price applies in all 24 locations.

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