SITE 19 · ORD1 · Americas · AS212345

VPS ChicagoUnited States

The middle of the country, on purpose.

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Live since: 2025
Median RTT: 3ms
Edge capacity: 0.48Tbit/s
from: €1.90/mo

Facility: ORD1 — Elk Grove Village
Certification: Tier IV
Carriers: Arelion · Cogent · NTT
Peering: Equinix Chicago
Test IP: 203.0.126.10
Stock: In stock

SITE DOSSIER · ORD1

Why Chicago?

Chicago, live since 2025, is in ORD1 in Elk Grove Village, the industrial park that moves more of the country's freight than any other and has quietly added packets to the manifest. We joined Equinix Chicago with Arelion, Cogent and NTT, and the first test instance answered Toronto at 8 ms — the fastest Canada hop in the fleet, from a city that is not even in Canada.

The site carries 0.48 Tbit/s of edge capacity at a 3 ms local median, with 13 ms to Ashburn and Dallas, 15 to New York and 40 to Seattle. Chicago is the middle of the country on purpose: no user in the continental US is ever far from it, which is exactly the argument for hosting where the railways always said you should.

FLEET · RATE CARD

Plans in Chicago

Every plan in the catalogue, at the same price as everywhere else. A server here provisions in about fifty-five seconds.

Longer term, lower monthly rate.

PART EVPS-NANO · REV. D

I Nano

€1.90/mo

billed €€22.80 once· save 21% vs 6-month

vCPU: 1 × EPYC
Memory: 2 GB DDR5
Storage: 25 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic: 2 TB
Port: 1 Gbit/s

Typically used forSmall website · Personal VPN · DNS or monitoring box · Light cron jobs

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PART EVPS-MICRO · REV. D

II Micro

€3.10/mo

billed €€37.20 once· save 21% vs 6-month

vCPU: 2 × EPYC
Memory: 4 GB DDR5
Storage: 50 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic: 4 TB
Port: 1 Gbit/s

Typically used forDiscord or Telegram bot · Mail server · Home lab jump host · Small website

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PART EVPS-BASE · REV. D

Most chosen

III Base

€5.50/mo

billed €€66.00 once· save 20% vs 6-month

vCPU: 4 × EPYC
Memory: 8 GB DDR5
Storage: 100 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic: 8 TB
Port: 2.5 Gbit/s

Typically used forDocker stack · Nextcloud · Staging server · Game server

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PART EVPS-WORK · REV. D

IV Work

€10.40/mo

billed €€124.80 once· save 19% vs 6-month

vCPU: 6 × EPYC
Memory: 16 GB DDR5
Storage: 200 GB Gen4 NVMe
Traffic: 12 TB
Port: 2.5 Gbit/s

Typically used forProduction web app · Postgres primary · CI runner · Scraping

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TELECOM SURVEY · 90-DAY MEDIAN

Latency from Chicago

Median round-trip time to major cities, measured hourly from this site over the last 90 days. The bar is width-proportional; 200 ms fills the track.

Toronto

8 ms

Ashburn

13 ms

Dallas

13 ms

New York

15 ms

Seattle

40 ms

Los Angeles

51 ms

London

76 ms

São Paulo

104 ms

SCALE · 0–200 MS · Equinix Chicago

The hardware behind every server

CPU: AMD EPYC 9354P · 3.80 GHz boost
Memory: 384 GB DDR5-4800 ECC per host
Storage: Samsung PM9A3 Gen4 NVMe, RAID-10
Network: 2 × 25 GbE LACP to separate leaves
Power: A+B feeds, 72 h diesel autonomy
Hypervisor: KVM on Linux 6.12 LTS
Oversubscription: 3:1 fair-share · 1:1 dedicated

Identical spec sheet in all 41 sites — the only thing that changes between locations is the sign on the building.

ADJACENT SHEETS

Nearby regions

Eight sites to compare this one against. If a shorter hop changes the answer, the math is the same everywhere.

New York

1 ms

United States

NYC2 · Americas

Ashburn

1 ms

United States

IAD1 · Americas

Dallas

3 ms

United States

DAL1 · Americas

Miami

4 ms

United States

MIA1 · Americas

Seattle

3 ms

United States

SEA1 · Americas

Los Angeles

3 ms

United States

LAX1 · Americas

Toronto

3 ms

Canada

YYZ1 · Americas

Mexico City

5 ms

Mexico

MEX1 · Americas

Q&A · VER. 4.2

Questions about Chicago

The two answers people actually ask about this site, then the five we give everywhere.

This site

Chicago or Dallas for the US interior?

Split the country down the middle and squint. Chicago wins for the north and for Canada — 8 ms to Toronto, 15 to New York, 40 to Seattle. Dallas wins for the south and for Mexico — 13 ms to Chicago and 31 to Mexico City. Both are Tier IV at the same price; the tiebreaker is which direction your users' clocks point.

Why pick a mid-continent site when the coasts have the exchanges?

Because the middle is where the shortest latency serves the most people. Chicago answers Toronto at 8 ms, New York at 15 and the west coast at 40-51 ms — the flattest continental profile we run. If your users are scattered across the country rather than stacked on one coast, the centre is the least-wrong answer, and it costs the same as the coasts.

Everywhere

Which region should I pick?

Measure, then read. Median RTT decides most cases: pick the site closest to the users you already have, then check the local law if that matters to your data. We do not charge a regional premium, so the decision is never financial.

Is the price the same in every location?

Yes. A Nano costs €1.90 per month in Frankfurt and in São Paulo. There is no regional pricing tier, no 'emerging market' discount and no 'premium location' markup to optimise around.

Can I move a server to another site later?

Take a snapshot, deploy the same image at the destination, restore, update the DNS. The console does not yet automate the migration end-to-end, but nothing about the price changes if you redeploy somewhere else.

Is DDoS protection included?

Standard volumetric filtering is always on and always free at every site. If you need application-layer scrubbing with custom rules, the Advanced tier costs €3.90 per month per server.

What IP addresses do I get?

Every server ships with one dedicated IPv4 and a routed /64 of IPv6, both announced from the site you chose. Additional IPv4s are €1.20 per month each, up to eight per server.

Payments from United States

Orders from United States are handled exactly like every other order: checkout in euros, payment in Bitcoin, Monero or any of twenty-four assets, and the server provisions on the first network confirmation. No card, no bank, no name that has to match one.

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Two decisions, then a network

Pick a size, pick a site, pay in crypto. Moving later is one snapshot and a redeploy away.

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