Chicago, United States
Software Build Server in Chicago
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 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
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.
Chicago has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Chicago ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 704 km | 11–21 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 945 km | 14–28 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,146 km | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,292 km | 19–39 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,915 km | 29–57 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,789 km | 42–84 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,802 km | 42–84 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,961 km | 44–89 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,356 km | 95–191 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,612 km | 99–198 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,728 km | 101–202 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,884 km | 103–207 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,968 km | 105–209 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,293 km | 109–219 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,380 km | 126–251 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,906 km | 149–297 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,143 km | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,039 km | 181–361 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,535 km | 188–376 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,840 km | 193–385 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,950 km | 194–389 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,874 km | 223–446 ms |
| Singapore | 15,074 km | 226–452 ms |
Distances are from 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.
Build servers for Chicago
We host servers for companies across Chicago — from the Loop, River North, Lincoln Park, Wicker Park and the West Loop — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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 a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
Software Build Server in Chicago — FAQs
Can I host my own CI runners on it?
Can it build container images?
How much does a build server cost in Chicago?
Other servers in Chicago
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.
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Other towns we host for in the region.