Urbandale, United States
Software Build Server in Urbandale
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 Urbandale. 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.
Urbandale is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Urbandale ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 505 km | 8–15 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,021 km | 15–31 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,192 km | 18–36 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,199 km | 18–36 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,649 km | 25–49 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,157 km | 32–65 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,303 km | 35–69 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,346 km | 35–70 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,458 km | 37–74 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,739 km | 101–202 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,979 km | 105–209 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,171 km | 108–215 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,177 km | 108–215 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,338 km | 110–220 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,686 km | 115–231 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,727 km | 131–262 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,271 km | 154–308 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,848 km | 148–295 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,160 km | 182–365 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,347 km | 185–370 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,873 km | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,125 km | 197–394 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,377 km | 216–431 ms |
| Singapore | 14,920 km | 224–448 ms |
Distances are from Urbandale. 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 Urbandale
We host servers for companies throughout Urbandale, IA 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 505 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 Urbandale — FAQs
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