Dedicated servers in the USA run in a Digital Realty data center in Chicago. The configurations below are the machines in stock there now; the order form shows the current price, billing period and availability.
Xeon E3 v5
Xeon E3-1260L V5 2.10 GHz In stock: Chicago 5, Coventry 6Xeon E5 2620 v3
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 2.40 GHz In stock: Chicago 2Xeon E5 2650L v4
Intel Xeon E5-2650L V4 1.70 GHz In stock: Chicago 1Xeon Scalable 16c
Xeon 6130 or similar 2.1 GHz In stock: Chicago 1Showing 4 servers in stock out of 12 in the catalog. The list follows stock as it changes.
Why Chicago for a US audience
Chicago sits in the middle of the United States. Distance is one of the causes of network latency: a request from Los Angeles or New York travels farther to a server on the opposite coast than to a server in the center of the country. A Chicago location gives a nationwide audience a more even starting point than a server placed at one edge of the country. It is a general advantage, not a guarantee; the application, the network path and the visitor's connection still decide the real response time.
Who a Chicago dedicated server suits
A Chicago machine fits a team whose customers are spread across the United States or across both the US and Canada. That includes a store with nationwide checkout traffic, a SaaS product with API users on both coasts, an ad or analytics service that needs a fixed machine, and a company that wants its primary server in a US facility. It also fits a workload that has outgrown a VPS and needs the whole physical machine rather than a larger virtual slice.
The location is less useful when most of the audience is in Europe or Asia. A server in Coventry, United Kingdom is listed on the main dedicated page for European traffic. If latency is not the deciding factor, compare the available configurations and the billing period first; the data center should follow the audience, not the other way around.
What you choose in the order form
- Operating system. AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Debian or Ubuntu.
- Storage layout. No RAID, or RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 or 10.
- Billing period. 1, 3 or 6 months, with 10% off for 3 months and 20% off for 6 months in the current order form.