If most of your users are west of the Rockies, put a dedicated server in Los Angeles and stop serving them from the other side of the country. Our Los Angeles dedicated servers run at Digital Realty LAX10, 600 West 7th Street, in downtown LA. The entry server is $126 a month on the order form, and in-stock builds are online the same day or the next.
Latency from Los Angeles to the West Coast
Distance is latency, and no amount of server tuning buys it back. In RIPE Atlas tests on September 30, 2026, users reached our LA site in under 1 ms from across Los Angeles, about 28 ms from Seattle, 31 ms from Vancouver, 33 ms from Dallas and 34 ms from Denver. People in LA, San Diego, the Bay Area, Phoenix and Las Vegas get a shorter path to a Los Angeles dedicated server than to Chicago or Virginia. For an API that fires a dozen calls per page load, or a game lobby where players notice every frame, that difference adds up fast.
The Pacific side of your network
Serving customers in Tokyo, Sydney or Singapore from the U.S.? LA is our West Coast location for Asia-Pacific users. On October 1, 2026, RIPE Atlas probes reached our LA site in about 110 ms from Tokyo, 145 ms from Sydney and 182 ms from Singapore. That’s typically 30 to 45 ms quicker than our Chicago site and 40 to 70 ms quicker than Ashburn. It won’t shrink the ocean, but it cuts the cross-country leg out of the trip.
Which Los Angeles dedicated server to pick
These are the default builds on our LA order forms. Each form is a configurator, so you can change RAM, drives, bandwidth and the operating system before checkout. Setup is $0 and the term is month to month.
- Xeon E3-1230 v1, $126 a month. Four cores and eight threads, 16 GB of RAM, a 1 TB enterprise HDD and 30 TB of monthly transfer. Good for web apps, game servers and VPN or proxy nodes.
- Xeon D-1541, $248 a month. Eight cores and 16 threads, 64 GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD and 30 TB of transfer, for busy web stacks and mid-size databases.
- Xeon D Special, $159 a month. A separate Xeon D-1541 build with a 1 Gbps unmetered port, which can be ordered for LA too.
- Dual Xeon E5-2620, $334 a month. Two sockets and 64 GB of RAM for virtualization and multi-tenant hosting.
Need more RAM, NVMe or a GPU? GPU servers are built to order around the card you choose; see GPU dedicated servers. Regular custom builds take a week or less. Compare LA with our other sites on the dedicated server pricing page.
What’s included with every LA dedicated server
No tiers to decode. Every build comes with a 99.5% network uptime SLA, a 30-minute support response and 2-hour hardware replacement, and the numbers are the ones in our legal SLA. IPMI sits on a private management network, so you can fix a server that won’t boot without exposing that interface to the internet. R1Soft automated backups with 1 TB of storage and DDoS protection are both $0 on the LA forms. A 1 Gbps private network is included, and 10 Gbps is $20 a month.
Linux, Windows and management
The LA order forms list AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD, Proxmox and VMware ESXi at no extra charge. Windows Server Standard is $50 a month and Datacenter is $300 a month on the same forms; our Windows dedicated servers page covers the licensing. If you’d rather hand off the operating system, Enterprise Server Management is $99 a month, or $79 a month on a server with a cPanel license. It moves you to the managed SLA: 99.95% network uptime, a 15-minute support response and 1-hour hardware replacement. More on managed servers.
Pair LA with Chicago or Ashburn
A backup in the same metro as your primary shares its storms, power events and fiber cuts. LA sits far from our other two sites, which is the point. Over the point-to-point circuits between them, Los Angeles is about 40 ms from Chicago and about 52 ms from Ashburn, and either is comfortable for replication and failover. Our Chicago dedicated servers cover the middle of the country, and Ashburn dedicated servers cover the East Coast and the short hop to Europe. A common setup is a Chicago primary with an LA replica, so a regional outage costs you a failover and not a day. Tell us what you run and where your users sit. If Chicago or Ashburn would serve you better, we’ll say so.
