Ashburn colocation at Equinix DC3

Put your own hardware in Ashburn, Virginia, where we've run servers at Equinix DC3 since 2014. That's Loudoun County, the place people call the data center capital of the world: about 7 ms from New York and in the same metro as AWS us-east-1. Ashburn space costs more than our Chicago space, so every Ashburn colocation deal is quoted to what you're bringing.

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DC3 Equinix, Loudoun County, Virginia

7 ms Typical round trip from New York

99.5% Network uptime SLA in writing

SOC 2 Type II certified

Why colocate in Ashburn

Distance is latency. Ashburn puts your hardware next to the East Coast's people, networks and clouds.

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Close to East Coast users

Users in New York reach our Ashburn site in about 7 ms, Boston in about 21 and Atlanta in about 17. We measured that with RIPE Atlas probes on local ISPs, not from inside our own network.

Next door to the big clouds

AWS us-east-1, Google's us-east4 and Azure East US are all in Northern Virginia. If you run a database on your own hardware and some services in a public cloud, being in the same metro matters more than almost anything on a spec sheet.

Closer to Europe

London users reach Ashburn in about 80 ms and Frankfurt users in about 89. That's the shortest trip to Europe of our three sites.

A second region for failover

Our Ashburn site reaches Chicago in about 24 ms and Los Angeles in about 52 ms over the circuits between our sites. Put a replica here and your primary in Chicago, and one storm can't take out both.

Power and hands on the quote

Tell us what your servers draw under load and what remote-hands help you expect. Both go into the quote, so the first bill holds no surprises.

Test the network first

Download the 1 GB test file from speedtest.iad.gigenet.com before you ship anything, and see what your own connection gets.

Ashburn or Chicago

Ashburn or Chicago colocation?

Here’s our honest take. If your users and your cloud accounts are on the East Coast, pay for Ashburn. If your users are spread across the US and price matters most, Chicago gives you more for the money, and it’s the only site with flat published packages.

	Ashburn (East)	Chicago (Central)
Facility	Equinix DC3, Loudoun County, Virginia	Our own 17,000 sq. ft. facility in Arlington Heights, IL
Pricing	Custom quote, higher than Chicago	1U $99, 2U $199, half rack $799, full rack $1,400 a month
From New York	About 7 ms	About 19 ms
Best for	East Coast users, hybrid setups with AWS or Azure, traffic to Europe	Central US, the lowest-cost start

Rather rent than own? Our Ashburn dedicated servers start with the $159 Xeon D-1541 special, and you skip buying hardware. Want the full latency numbers? They’re in our Ashburn vs Chicago latency post.

The facility

Where your Ashburn hardware lives

Building: Equinix DC3, Loudoun County, Virginia. We’ve run servers there since 2014.
Certification: we’re SOC 2 Type II certified, and the DC3 building holds ISO 27001.
Network: short paths to the major East Coast networks, and our own circuits to Chicago and Los Angeles.
Test it first: download the 1 GB test file from speedtest.iad.gigenet.com.

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Tell us how many servers, how many rack units, what they draw under load and how much bandwidth you expect. We'll price Ashburn, and tell you plainly if Chicago would serve you better for less.

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24/7/365

US-based support

99.5%

Network uptime SLA in writing

Since 1998

Hosting servers

SOC 2

Type II certified

Ashburn colocation FAQs

Other options: Colocation in all locations · Chicago colocation · Los Angeles colocation · Ashburn dedicated servers

How much does colocation cost in Ashburn?

It’s quoted per deployment, and it costs more than our Chicago colocation because Ashburn space costs us more. For comparison, Chicago starts at $99 a month for 1U. Send your server count, rack units and power draw on the quote form and we’ll price it.

Where is your Ashburn data center?

Equinix DC3 in Loudoun County, Virginia. We’ve run servers there since 2014.

How close is it to AWS us-east-1?

It’s in the same metro. AWS us-east-1 is in Northern Virginia, as are Google’s us-east4 and Azure East US, which makes Ashburn a good home for hybrid setups.

What SLA do I get?

Colocation is covered by our Network SLA at 99.5% availability, in writing, with service credits if we miss it. See our SLA.

Is renting a dedicated server in Ashburn cheaper?

Often, for the first year or two, because you don’t buy hardware. Our Ashburn dedicated servers start with the $159 Xeon D-1541 special. Colocation wins when you already own the servers or need hardware we don’t stock.