Portage, United States
Software Build Server in Portage
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 Portage. 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.
Portage is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Portage ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 173 km | 3–5 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 530 km | 8–16 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 946 km | 14–28 ms |
| New York, United States | 978 km | 15–29 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,439 km | 22–43 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,893 km | 28–57 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,927 km | 44–88 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,976 km | 45–89 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 3,131 km | 47–94 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,203 km | 93–186 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,463 km | 97–194 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,559 km | 98–197 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,755 km | 101–203 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,817 km | 102–205 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,136 km | 107–214 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,234 km | 124–247 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,755 km | 146–293 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,212 km | 153–306 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 11,958 km | 179–359 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,559 km | 188–377 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,786 km | 192–384 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,851 km | 193–386 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 15,049 km | 226–451 ms |
| Singapore | 15,081 km | 226–452 ms |
Distances are from Portage. 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 Portage
We host servers for companies throughout Portage, MI 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 173 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 Portage — FAQs
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