VPS AshburnUnited States

Ashburn, live since 2024, is in IAD1 on the Loudoun campus — the stretch of Virginia that contains more internet than most countries, built on farmland that was cheap until the cables arrived. We joined Equinix Ashburn with Arelion, Cogent and Lumen, and the first test instance answered New York at 6 ms, from a building whose neighbours' names sit on every status page your customers have ever read.

The site runs 0.94 Tbit/s of edge capacity — second in the Americas only to New York — at a 1 ms local median, with 13 ms to Chicago, 21 to Dallas and 68 to London. Ashburn is data-centre alley itself: if you want the same fibre loops as the clouds without renting from them, this is the rack, at the price of a Nano.