Our Ashburn dedicated servers sit at Equinix DC3 in Loudoun County, Virginia, the place people call the data center capital of the world, and we've run servers there since 2014. The $159 Xeon D-1541 Special is in stock with a 1 Gbps unmetered port, and in-stock builds are online the same or next day.
Ashburn delivers what mission‑critical workloads demand — speed, stability, and unmatched network density. Below is a quick look at the features that make our Ashburn dedicated servers a top‑tier choice for high‑performance deployments.
Enterprise‑Grade Hardware Configurations
Low Latency to the East Coast and Europe
Direct Cloud Interconnects
Custom-built Infrastructure
Rapid Provisioning & On‑Demand Scalability
24/7 ticket and phone support
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Northern Virginia gets called the data center capital of the world for a reason. Our Ashburn dedicated servers sit in Equinix DC3 in Loudoun County, and we’ve run servers in Ashburn since 2014. Here’s what that location actually buys you.
More networks on the same fabric. Ashburn is where networks meet. PeeringDB lists more networks on the Equinix Ashburn exchange than on Equinix Chicago, and more networks in the building means more of your traffic reaches your users’ ISPs directly instead of taking an extra transit hop.
The big clouds next door. AWS us-east-1 is in Northern Virginia, Google’s us-east4 region is in Ashburn, Oracle runs us-ashburn-1 and Azure’s East US region is in Virginia. If you run hybrid, say a database on bare metal with some services in AWS, being in the same metro as us-east-1 matters more than almost anything else on a spec sheet.
East Coast and Europe in reach. Transatlantic cables such as MAREA and Dunant land at Virginia Beach and carry traffic north to the Ashburn cluster. That’s why Ashburn is the natural home for users on the East Coast and in Europe. Here’s what our own network looks like from Ashburn:
| City | Typical round trip to our Ashburn site |
|---|---|
| New York | about 7 ms |
| Montreal | about 15 ms |
| Atlanta | about 17 ms |
| Boston | about 21 ms |
| Toronto | about 25 ms |
| Miami | about 29 ms |
| Dallas | about 33 ms |
| Los Angeles | about 62 ms |
| London | about 80 ms |
| Frankfurt | about 89 ms |
We measured these on September 30, 2026, with RIPE Atlas: about 15 probes per city, on local ISPs, pinging our Ashburn site. Each figure is the median, so it’s close to what a typical user in that city sees, and the raw results are public. Your own users’ numbers still depend on their ISP and route. Test from your own network with our looking glass at lg.gigenet.com before you order.
Where Ashburn fits with our other sites. Ashburn covers the East Coast and Europe. If your users are spread across the US and Canada, Chicago dedicated servers sit in the middle of the map, on transit from PCCW, Cogent, GTT and Zayo. Los Angeles dedicated servers cover the West Coast and Asia-Pacific routes. If an outage would really hurt, run a primary in Ashburn and a standby in Chicago, linked over our private network. You can compare every build across all three sites on our dedicated servers page.
From Ashburn, you can extend your footprint to Chicago for central‑U.S. distribution and database replication, and to Los Angeles for West Coast delivery, media workloads, and global reach into APAC.
From a single Ashburn dedicated server to a fully engineered enterprise‑grade cluster, our Ashburn infrastructure can scale to match your growth. Your deployment can start small—one powerful bare‑metal machine handling core workloads—and evolve into a complete, multi‑node architecture with load balancers, hypervisors, private networking, storage arrays, and high‑availability failover. Few options solution design and architecture we offer:
Simple split: web server + database server
Goal: Separate concerns, remove resource contention, prepare for future HA.
Active–passive HA pair (single app, single DB)
Goal: High availability with predictable failover and minimal complexity.
Active–active web tier behind a load balancer
Goal: Scale reads and traffic, tolerate node failure without downtime.
Virtualization cluster (Hyper‑V / VMware / Proxmox)
Goal: Run many VMs/containers with live migration and host‑level HA.
Ashburn isn’t just a location — it’s an advantage. When you deploy in Loudoun County, you’re tapping into the world’s densest concentration of cloud, network, and hyperscale infrastructure. Your dedicated server becomes more than bare‑metal compute; it becomes a strategic asset that accelerates how you build, deliver, and scale digital services.
The $159 Xeon D Special in Ashburn comes with a 1 Gbps unmetered port: no data cap and no overage fee. Our 10 Gbps unmetered servers run in Chicago; see unmetered servers. Move large volumes of content, media, backups or application traffic without watching a transfer meter.
Connect directly to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other hyperscalers through Ashburn’s massive interconnect fabric using our dedicated servers. Move workloads fluidly between dedicated servers and cloud environments without bottlenecks.
Users in New York reach our Ashburn site in about 7 ms, and London users in about 80 ms. We've published the numbers and the raw RIPE Atlas results in our Ashburn vs Chicago latency post, so you can check them against your own traffic.
Deploying AI infrastructure using our Ashburn dedicated servers gives you a strategic advantage that few regions can match. GigeNET brings that advantage directly to your stack with high‑performance bare‑metal servers engineered for AI, ML, and data‑intensive workloads.
We're SOC 2 Type II certified. Customers building HIPAA or PCI environments run them on our servers under their own compliance program.
By anchoring operations with Ashburn dedicated servers, the East Coast is served while connecting the Midwest via Chicago, and the West coast via Los Angeles, GigeNET delivers a strategic blend of speed, stability, and geographic diversity — giving customers a resilient, globally‑capable platform for modern workloads.
Turn your Ashburn bare‑metal server into a flexible, multi‑purpose virtualization platform. With GigeNET’s enterprise‑grade hardware, dense East Coast connectivity, your Ashburn deployment becomes the perfect foundation for running VMs, containers, and isolated environments at scale using our KVM-based hypervisors.
Your workloads aren’t generic — your infrastructure shouldn’t be either. In Ashburn, VA, GigeNET builds dedicated servers from the ground up, giving you full control over hardware, performance, and architecture.
Ashburn is one of the most bandwidth‑dense, carrier‑rich regions on the planet — and GigeNET’s IP transit service taps directly into that ecosystem. Whether you’re running global applications, high‑traffic platforms, VPN networks, or latency‑sensitive workloads, our Ashburn IP transit gives you the routing intelligence, stability, and throughput your infrastructure needs to perform at scale.
Every GigeNET dedicated server can be paired with our always-on DDoS mitigation — built into the network layer, not bolted on as an emergency response. It’s the infrastructure choice that keeps you up when others go dark.
We received a large DDoS attack and our hosting provider at the time was unable to stop it for 2 days. GigeNET got our site back up within hours of us contacting them — and we stayed up. We now host all of our services exclusively with GigeNET.
GigeNET supports all major Linux operating systems in its Ashburn datacenter, giving you complete flexibility to deploy the environment your workloads require. Whether you prefer Ubuntu for modern performance, Debian for long‑term stability, RHEL‑compatible platforms like CentOS, AlmaLinux, or Rocky Linux for enterprise reliability, Fedora for cutting‑edge features, Arch Linux for full customization, or FreeBSD for advanced networking and ZFS, your server can run exactly the distribution you need—including custom ISOs. With ultra‑low‑latency East Coast routing, enterprise‑grade hardware optimized for Linux kernels, high‑bandwidth unmetered ports, and a secure, compliance‑ready facility, Ashburn provides the ideal foundation to customize, virtualize, and scale your Linux stack.
It has over met our expectations, price, quality and customer service. If you want a good dedicated server or vps for your company, we recommend you give them a try. You will not regret it. Compare to the most popular hosting company GigeNET is 10/10.
Our team specs servers to workloads, not the other way around. Tell us what you're running and we'll put together a build that fits — whether that's one of our standard configurations or something built from the ground up.
Ashburn is ideal for businesses that need:
If your platform depends on speed, uptime and reach into Europe, Ashburn is a strong place to anchor it.
GigeNET fully supports and manages Windows dedicated servers in Ashburn, VA, providing a stable, enterprise‑grade environment for organizations that rely on Microsoft’s ecosystem. Our platform accommodates all major Windows Server editions and integrates seamlessly with leading hypervisors such as Hyper‑V and VMware, allowing you to virtualize workloads, run complex enterprise applications, and maintain secure, isolated environments with ease. Backed by Ashburn’s ultra‑low‑latency network, high‑capacity bandwidth, and a compliance‑ready datacenter, your Windows infrastructure benefits from optimized performance, reliable uptime, and expert management tailored to mission‑critical operations.
Hosting since 1998, GigeNET delivers proven reliability, deep infrastructure expertise, and a long‑standing commitment to performance and security that few providers can match.
Your infrastructure is backed by a real engineering team available around the clock, every day of the year. Whether you call directly or open a ticket, you get fast, knowledgeable assistance whenever you need it.
Servers can be deployed quickly and scaled as your needs grow—whether adding compute, expanding storage, or building multi‑node clusters.
Every Ashburn server includes free DDoS protection, shielding your applications from volumetric, protocol, and application‑layer attacks without additional cost.
GigeNET’s Ashburn network is engineered for reliability and backed by a contractual uptime SLA: 99.5% on every server, 99.95% on managed plans and 100% with our High Availability Guarantee.
Support tickets get a response from actual engineers within 30 minutes (15 minutes with priority support on a management plan), not outsourced or scripted support, so issues are addressed quickly and accurately.
If hardware fails, GigeNET replaces it within two hours (one hour on managed plans), minimizing downtime and keeping your production environment stable and resilient.
Ashburn’s datacenter meets strict compliance standards, ensuring your workloads operate in a secure, audited, and industry‑certified environment.
AWS us-east-1 is in Northern Virginia and Google's us-east4 is in Ashburn, so a database on bare metal here is in the same metro as the cloud services that use it.
GigeNET deploys modern, high‑performance dedicated servers built with powerful CPUs, SSD storage, and large memory configurations—ideal for virtualization, databases, and mission‑critical workloads.
Further reading: Ashburn vs Chicago data center latency
Ashburn sits at the core of the world’s most interconnected data corridor, with unmatched fiber density, Tier‑1 carriers, and ultra‑low‑latency routes across the East Coast and Europe. Hosting in Ashburn gives your applications faster delivery, higher reliability, and direct access to hyperscale cloud ecosystems.
We measured it on September 30, 2026, with RIPE Atlas probes on local ISPs, about 15 per city. The median round trip to our Ashburn site was about 7 ms from New York, 15 ms from Montreal, 17 ms from Atlanta, 21 ms from Boston, 25 ms from Toronto, 33 ms from Dallas, 62 ms from Los Angeles, 80 ms from London and 89 ms from Frankfurt. That makes Ashburn the natural home for East Coast and transatlantic traffic. Your users’ numbers depend on their own networks, so run a test from lg.gigenet.com before you order.
Pick Ashburn if most of your users are on the East Coast or in Europe, since it’s closer to New York, Boston, Atlanta and London. Pick Chicago if your users are spread across the US and Canada, because the middle of the map gives the fewest people a bad experience, and Chicago runs on transit from PCCW, Cogent, GTT and Zayo. If an outage would really hurt, run both, with the primary where most of your users are. Our Ashburn vs Chicago latency comparison has the numbers behind that.
In-stock builds are delivered the same day or the next day. Custom builds take a week or less. On a deadline? Start with an in-stock build and upgrade later if you need to.
Our $159 Xeon D build in Ashburn comes with a 1 Gbps unmetered port. Other builds come with a monthly transfer allowance, 30 TB or more by default, and the order form lets you step up to 50, 100 or 150 TB or to a 1 Gbps unmetered uplink. A 1 Gbps private network port is included, with 10 Gbps private networking as an option. For a 10 Gbps public port, see our 10 Gbps unmetered servers and ask us about Ashburn availability.
Yes. Every Ashburn dedicated server comes with DDoS protection included at no extra charge, and it’s always on at the network level. Larger protection tiers are on the order form, and we’ll give you the capacity figures for your build on request.
You get IPMI, and it sits on a private network by default rather than on a public IP. That means you can power-cycle the server or reach its console when the OS won’t boot, without leaving the management controller open to attackers.
Yes. Choose Windows Server 2016 or 2019 in the operating system step of the order form: Standard is $50/month, and Datacenter editions are on the form too. We install it before handoff, and you get Administrator access from day one. Our Windows dedicated servers page covers licensing in more detail.
Yes. Enterprise Server Management is $99/month per server, or $79/month when the server also has a cPanel license. It covers OS patching, troubleshooting and Advanced Monitoring (a $49/month add-on without management), and it moves the server to our managed SLA tier: 99.95% network availability, 1-hour hardware replacement and a 15-minute support response. See managed servers for what’s included.
Every dedicated server is covered by our Essential SLA: 99.5% network availability, a 30-minute support ticket response and 2-hour hardware replacement. Add a management plan and you’re on our Awesome SLA — 99.95%, 15-minute priority response and 1-hour hardware replacement — with 100% available through our High Availability Guarantee. Full SLA terms are available to review before you sign. Read the full SLA →
Latency‑sensitive and high‑performance workloads thrive here: SaaS platforms, fintech applications, AI/ML pipelines, large‑scale eCommerce, streaming, gaming, virtualization clusters, and global content delivery. Ashburn’s network performance makes it ideal for any application requiring speed and stability.
Yes. You can run a network test directly via our looking glass tool at lg.gigenet.com.
Intel Xeon servers with SSD storage and ECC memory, configurable on the order form, plus custom builds to your spec. GPU servers are built to order; see GPU dedicated servers.
Yes, as a custom build. We don’t keep GPU servers in stock right now, so each one is built to order around the card you choose, for AI inference, fine-tuning or other GPU work. See GPU dedicated servers or send the spec on the quote form.
Yes. You can run VMware, Proxmox, KVM, Hyper‑V, or custom virtualization stacks. Ashburn’s bandwidth and hardware options make it ideal for building private clouds, multi‑tenant environments, and scalable VM clusters.
GigeNET supports all major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Arch Linux, FreeBSD) and fully managed Windows Server environments. You can choose the OS that best fits your workflow.
Ashburn facilities offer multi‑layer physical security, biometric access, 24/7 monitoring, redundant power, advanced fire suppression, and compliance‑ready infrastructure (SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001). Your workloads run in a hardened, enterprise‑grade environment. We’re SOC 2 Type II certified. Customers building HIPAA or PCI environments run them on our servers under their own compliance program.
Yes. GigeNET supports rapid provisioning, custom builds, multi‑server clusters, private networking, and hybrid deployments. You can scale vertically (more power) or horizontally (more servers) without downtime or migration headaches.