The Colony, United States
VPS for Coding in The Colony
A machine with root on it, your own toolchain, and cores nothing else competes for.
- ✓ Root access, any language
- ✓ Dedicated cores
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from The Colony. 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
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, which keeps build times roughly repeatable.
$294.50USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
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
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourAdd 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.
The Colony has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Colony ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,162 km | 17–35 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,272 km | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,807 km | 27–54 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,919 km | 29–58 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,978 km | 30–59 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,196 km | 33–66 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,319 km | 35–70 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,673 km | 40–80 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 7,621 km | 114–229 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 7,880 km | 118–236 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,942 km | 119–238 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,138 km | 122–244 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 8,235 km | 124–247 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 8,552 km | 128–257 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,648 km | 145–289 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,173 km | 168–335 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,370 km | 156–311 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 13,029 km | 195–391 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 13,136 km | 197–394 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 13,801 km | 207–414 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 13,823 km | 207–415 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 14,114 km | 212–423 ms |
| Singapore | 15,613 km | 234–468 ms |
Distances are from The Colony. 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 The Colony
We host servers for companies throughout The Colony, TX 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.
Dallas is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
VPS for Coding in The Colony — FAQs
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Other servers in The Colony
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.
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Other towns we host for in the region.