Alton, United Kingdom
Software Build Server in Alton
Build, test and ship on hardware you control — no per-minute billing and no shared queue.
- ✓ Self-hosted CI runners
- ✓ No per-minute billing
- ✓ Dedicated cores throughout
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alton. 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.
Bring your own CI
Hosted CI is priced per minute and shared with everyone else on the plan. A build server is a fixed cost that does not care how often you push.
Self-hosted runners
Point GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Buildkite at it. The machine is yours whether it is busy or idle.
No queue but yours
Nobody else is waiting in front of your job, and nothing throttles you for building too often.
Caches that persist
Dependency and layer caches stay on the disk between runs rather than being rebuilt from cold each time.
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.
Alton is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Alton ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 71 km | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 427 km | 6–13 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 690 km | 10–21 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 981 km | 15–29 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 1,212 km | 18–36 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 1,503 km | 23–45 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 2,142 km | 32–64 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 3,595 km | 54–108 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 5,527 km | 83–166 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 5,675 km | 85–170 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 6,319 km | 95–190 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 6,727 km | 101–202 ms |
| Miami, United States | 7,075 km | 106–212 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 7,606 km | 114–228 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,695 km | 115–231 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 8,621 km | 129–259 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 8,738 km | 131–262 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,795 km | 102–204 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,250 km | 109–218 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,029 km | 120–241 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,623 km | 144–289 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 9,694 km | 145–291 ms |
| Singapore | 10,914 km | 164–327 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 17,065 km | 256–512 ms |
Distances are from Alton. 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 servers for Alton
We host servers for companies throughout Alton, England and the rest of United Kingdom. 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.
London is our closest location at 71 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 Build Server in Alton — FAQs
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Same hardware, tuned for a different job.