GigeNET has been part of Chicago’s technology backbone since 1998. Our dedicated servers are deployed inside our Chicago‑owned, Chicago‑operated datacenter, engineered for performance, reliability, and long‑term stability. When you host in Chicago with GigeNET, you’re choosing a provider deeply rooted in the city — not a reseller, not a remote operator, but a true Chicago company delivering enterprise‑grade infrastructure from the heart of the Midwest.
As a Chicago‑owned and Chicago‑operated company since 1998, GigeNET has shaped the city’s hosting landscape through innovation, reliability, and a relentless commitment to performance. Our dedicated servers are hosted away from downtown Chicago in Arlington Heights, IL — a safer, more stable, and strategically superior location. Why our Chicago location Is the Best Place for Your Dedicated Server :
Chicago’s strategic location delivers balanced, low‑latency performance to the East Coast, West Coast, Canada, and the entire Midwest — ideal for SaaS, e‑commerce, financial apps, and high‑traffic platforms.
GigeNET’s Chicago facility is built on Tier‑1 carriers, premium transit, and optimized peering routes — ensuring fast, stable, predictable network performance for all workloads.
Arlington Heights offers a calmer, more controlled environment compared to downtown Chicago’s congestion, construction, and power‑grid volatility.
Perfect for rapid deployments, global connectivity, and fast access for traveling engineers or remote teams.
Chicago is the central backbone of GigeNET’s nationwide infrastructure. Interconnect Chicago with Los Angeles and Ashburn, VA to build: Multi‑region private clouds, Cross‑zone replication, Active‑active clusters, Geographic redundancy, Distributed applications.
Financial firms, trading platforms, and latency‑sensitive applications benefit from optimized network paths engineered for speed.
Below are some ready to order Chicago dedicated servers that can go Live today. We are available to customize your dedicated server to fit your specific needs.
Tell us what you're after and we'll email you the build and the price. If it's sold out, we'll suggest the closest build we have.
Call us. We'll check what's in stock and fill in the order with you.
Your Chicago dedicated server isn’t locked into presets or rigid configurations. GigeNET gives you complete freedom to choose exactly how your server is built, from the operating system to the hypervisor to the control panel. Every deployment is tailored to your workload, your platform, and your long‑term growth.
Every standard Chicago build on our order form runs on Intel Xeon. Here's what you can order today, and what we'll build for you if none of it fits.
From $126/mo
Our entry Chicago server is an Intel Xeon E3-1230 v1 for $126 a month. It's an older chip, and plenty for a small site, a dev box or a game server.
From $159/mo
The Xeon D-1541 is a good all-rounder for databases and several apps on one box. The standard build is $248 a month. The $159 Special is its own build, with 64 GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD and a 1 Gbps unmetered port.
Two-socket Xeon
Two-socket Xeon E5 servers for virtualization hosts, big databases and anything that wants a lot of threads. Pick the CPUs, RAM and drives on the order form.
Built to order
Need more cores, more RAM or a GPU than the standard builds offer? Tell us the workload and we'll quote a custom server. Custom builds usually take a week or less.
GigeNET gives you complete control over your Chicago dedicated servers — from the hardware platform to the operating system to the management stack. Every deployment is fully customizable, letting you design the exact environment your workload requires. We also give our customers the ability to have our team fully manage your environment.
Every Chicago dedicated server from GigeNET comes fully equipped with the essentials your business needs to run fast, secure, and uninterrupted — backed by Chicago hosting expertise since 1998.
Our network uptime SLA is an engineering commitment, not just a promise: 99.5% on every server, 99.95% on managed plans and 100% with our High Availability Guarantee, backed by architecture, redundancy, and accountability.
Our 30‑minute support ticket response (15 minutes with priority support on a management plan) means you always reach a real engineer fast — immediate attention, rapid triage, and true 24/7/365 reliability.
Our 2‑hour hardware replacement guarantee (1 hour on managed plans) means failed components are swapped fast by on‑site engineers, restoring full performance with minimal disruption to your operations.
Every server includes 30TB+ of premium public bandwidth, giving you massive transfer capacity with no throttling, no surprise overages, and consistently fast performance across all workloads.
Free server virtualization lets you turn your dedicated machine into a full private cloud host at no extra cost, giving you the power to deploy VMs, isolate workloads, and scale your infrastructure.
Full private network access gives you a secure, isolated backbone for your servers, enabling fast east‑west traffic, protected data transfers, and seamless communication between nodes without touching the public internet.
Software firewalls available on request give you an extra layer of protection, allowing you to deploy customized filtering rules, block threats, and harden your server’s security stack without added complexity or cost.
Power, network & cooling support ensures your infrastructure stays stable around the clock, with engineers monitoring critical systems, responding instantly to anomalies, and keeping your environment running at peak performance.
Optional management plans give you the freedom to choose exactly how much help you want — from basic monitoring to full hands‑on administration — so your server stays optimized, secure, and professionally maintained.
Our Chicago dedicated servers are powered by a diverse, multi‑carrier fiber ecosystem designed for speed, redundancy, and global reach. By combining Cogent, GTT, PCCW, and Zayo—all interconnected with our backbone between Chicago, LAX, and Ashburn
GTT Communications: Delivers global Tier‑1 transit with optimized international routing and enterprise‑grade SLAs
PCCW Global: Delivers fast, reliable APAC‑optimized routing — ideal for reaching Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
Zayo Group: Delivers scalable dark fiber and high‑capacity transport across North America and Europe
Cogent Communications: Delivers a large Tier‑1 backbone with strong peering and fast, predictable routing across North America and Europe.
Chicago’s central U.S. location, carrier‑dense connectivity, and proximity to major financial, commercial, and tech hubs make it one of the most strategic places to host dedicated servers. With GigeNET’s Arlington Heights datacenter, companies get Chicago‑level performance without downtown instability — ideal for mission‑critical workloads.
Chicago’s central U.S. location makes it ideal for high‑traffic websites and SaaS platforms that need consistent performance for users across the country. Hosting in Arlington Heights gives your application balanced latency to both coasts, ensuring fast load times, smooth user experiences, and reliable uptime even during peak traffic. With enterprise hardware and scalable configurations, Chicago becomes a perfect home for SaaS dashboards, customer portals, membership systems, and business‑critical web applications.
E‑commerce platforms thrive in Chicago thanks to its strategic position between major population centers. Retailers benefit from fast page loads, stable checkout performance, and reliable inventory synchronization across multiple regions. Whether you’re running a single online store or a multi‑brand retail network, Chicago’s connectivity ensures your customers experience quick, frictionless shopping. With dedicated resources, strong security, and DDoS protection, your store stays online and responsive during promotions, holidays, and high‑traffic events.
Chicago is a powerhouse location for databases and transaction‑heavy workloads that demand low latency and predictable performance. With optimized routes to major Midwest cities and strong national connectivity, your SQL, NoSQL, analytics, and reporting systems operate with speed and consistency. Hosting in Arlington Heights provides the stability needed for financial apps, ERP systems, real‑time dashboards, and high‑volume data processing — all backed by enterprise‑grade hardware and redundant infrastructure.
Chicago is an excellent hub for building private clouds and virtualization clusters using Proxmox VE, VMware ESXi, XCP‑NG, Hyper‑V, or KVM. Its central location makes multi‑region replication and distributed workloads more efficient, while GigeNET’s dedicated hardware ensures strong performance for VMs, containers, and multi‑tenant environments. Whether you’re consolidating infrastructure, deploying internal applications, or building a scalable hosting platform, Chicago provides the reliability and flexibility needed for modern cloud architectures.
Chicago is one of the best gaming and real‑time communication hubs in the United States due to its equal latency to both coasts. Multiplayer game servers, voice platforms, streaming applications, and collaboration tools benefit from low jitter, stable routing, and consistent performance. Hosting in Arlington Heights ensures your players and users experience smooth gameplay, responsive interactions, and minimal lag — making Chicago a top choice for competitive gaming and real‑time services. See dedicated game servers.
Our Chicago Xeon builds handle data processing, ETL and analytics pipelines, and the dual-socket servers give you plenty of threads for batch jobs. For model training, we'll quote a custom GPU server, usually ready in a week or less. Chicago's central location also helps when processed data has to reach users on both coasts.
Chicago is a global financial hub, and hosting in Arlington Heights provides optimized routes to the Chicago trading center in Aurora. This makes it a prime location for low‑latency trading platforms, market data processing, financial analytics, and risk modeling. With enterprise hardware, strong network stability, and proximity to major financial exchanges, Chicago dedicated servers deliver the speed and reliability required for mission‑critical financial operations.
Healthcare, finance, logistics and government teams often want a single-tenant server, because one customer per machine is easier to explain on a security questionnaire than a slice of shared hardware. Full OS control lets you set your own security policies and auditing. We're SOC 2 Type II certified. Customers building HIPAA or PCI environments run them on our servers under their own compliance program.
With a strong positive reputation and a history dating back to 1998, customers consistently highlight GigeNET’s reliability, engineering quality, and long‑standing commitment to service. Companies choose GigeNET because they want infrastructure that simply works — day after day, year after year.
Customers repeatedly highlight: Professional, respectful communication, Extremely fast and reliable infrastructure, Long‑term trust and stability, 24/7 responsive support, High satisfaction with dedicated server quality, Multi‑year customer loyalty.
I've worked with GigeNET for going on four years now and could not be happier the the quality of service received. Their entire team is phenomenal including an amazing and responsive support team. Update - 3 years later and still working with GigeNET. They continue to provide the superior customer service I appreciate. They have worked with us through multiple server upgrades and migrations over the years while proving invaluable expertise to help us build they right server and tech configurations to meet our needs!
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GigeNET hosts its Chicago dedicated servers outside downtown, in Arlington Heights, IL — a safer, more stable, and strategically superior location. This avoids downtown congestion, construction, and grid instability while still delivering true Chicago‑level performance and ultra‑low‑latency connectivity.
Every standard Chicago build on our order form runs on Intel Xeon: the E3-1230 v1 entry server at $126 a month, Xeon D-1541 builds from $159, and dual-socket Xeon E5 and Xeon Silver servers. If none of those fit, we’ll quote a custom build, usually ready in a week or less.
Every Chicago dedicated server is fully customizable. You choose the hardware, OS, hypervisor, control panel, storage layout, network configuration, and security stack. Nothing is locked — you build the exact environment your workload requires.
You can deploy any OS you prefer, including Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Windows Server, BSD variants, or even custom ISO installations. You receive full root/administrator access for complete OS control, tuning, and customization.
GigeNET provides secure, always‑on remote access via SSH, RDP, IPMI, and KVM‑over‑IP. This gives you BIOS‑level control, remote reboots, OS reinstalls, and full administrative access — even during troubleshooting or boot cycles.
Chicago’s central U.S. location keeps most of North America close. In RIPE Atlas tests from local ISPs on September 30, 2026, people reached our Chicago site in about 14 ms from Toronto, 19 ms from New York, 20 ms from Winnipeg, 24 ms from Dallas and Atlanta, 30 ms from Denver, 44 ms from Seattle and 48 ms from Los Angeles (raw results). GigeNET includes 30TB bandwidth, 1–10 Gbps ports, premium blended transit, and private networking options. This makes Chicago ideal for SaaS, e‑commerce, financial apps, and high‑traffic platforms. You can run a network test directly via our looking glass tool at lg.gigenet.com.
Yes — GigeNET’s Chicago dedicated servers are supported by local engineers with decades of hosting experience. You get 24/7 access to real experts who respond quickly, communicate clearly, and take full ownership of every issue.
Absolutely. You can start with one server and scale into multi‑server clusters, private clouds, virtualization platforms, or nationwide deployments interconnected with Los Angeles and Ashburn, VA. Chicago becomes your central backbone.
You receive enterprise hardware, OS installation, remote access, bandwidth, DDoS protection, datacenter infrastructure, 24/7 support, and full customization options. Everything needed for a reliable, high‑performance deployment is included from day one.
Every server includes free DDoS protection, software firewall options, secure OS‑level access, and optional VPN isolation. You can also add private VLANs, IP blocks, and advanced security configurations depending on your workload.
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.