Ashburn Is Open: A US East Server for European Teams

Ashburn, Virginia is open again at voxa.host. From today every KVM plan we sell can be deployed in the United States, on a new node in the US East region, alongside our five European locations. This post is written for European teams who have started to pick up customers in North America and are wondering whether that justifies a server over there. Often it does, and sometimes it does not. Here is how to tell.

What is new

A sixth location, listed as United States in the order form. All six general purpose plans, Ion through Titan, and all six plans of the streaming line, Flux through Vortex, deploy there with exactly the specifications they have in Europe. The server runs in Ashburn, the Northern Virginia hub where a large part of the US internet and many of the big cloud platforms run their eastern regions.

Transatlantic latency, in numbers

We measured round trip times from the Ashburn node to our own servers in Europe on 24 September 2026:

Ashburn to	Round trip time
Frankfurt	97 ms
Amsterdam	108 ms
Vienna	108 ms
Warsaw	113 ms
Bucharest	138 ms

One round trip of about 100 ms sounds harmless. The catch is that almost nothing on the web costs a single round trip. A new HTTPS connection spends two just on setup before the request is even sent, a page that loads its data in three sequential API calls adds three more, and a database query issued from the wrong side of the ocean pays the price on every statement. A customer in Boston using an app hosted in Frankfurt can easily wait half a second longer per page than a customer in Munich, and that is before the server does any work at all.

What to put in Ashburn, and what to keep in Europe

For most European businesses the right answer is not to move everything west. It is to split the stack along the line where latency actually hurts.

Keep the primary database where most writes happen

Writes need one authoritative copy, and 100 ms between an application and its database is painful. If most of your customers are still in Europe, the primary stays in Europe. Our guide to sizing database servers applies on either side.

Move the parts that answer reads

Static assets, cached pages, a read replica for reports, an API gateway that serves cached responses: these can sit in Ashburn and answer American users locally while the source of truth stays home. This is the same pattern as running your own edge nodes, with one node on a different continent.

Use the ocean for disaster recovery, not for synchronous replication

A standby in Virginia is excellent protection against losing a whole European location. It is a poor partner for synchronous replication, because every commit would wait for a round trip across the Atlantic. Replicate asynchronously and accept a few seconds of possible data loss in a disaster, as described in pairing two locations for failover.

Watch from the outside

A small monitor in Ashburn tells you what your American customers actually experience, which a probe in the same European city as your servers never will. See monitoring your own server from another city.

A note on personal data

Hosting personal data about people in the EU on a server in the United States is a transfer outside the EU under GDPR. Many companies handle it with a documented legal basis for the transfer. Others avoid the question by keeping personal data in Europe and sending only public or anonymised content to the US node. Which route fits depends on your contracts and your customers, so check with whoever handles data protection for you. This is general information, not legal advice.

Prices in Ashburn

Ashburn carries a location fee on top of each plan's base price. The totals below include it. Every general purpose plan can also run on hourly billing, where the fee is spread across the hours, and the VPS calculator will model a month for you.

Plan	vCPU	RAM	NVMe	Per month	Per hour
Ion	1	2 GB	20 GB	€6.50	€0.0091
Pulse	2	4 GB	40 GB	€10.50	€0.0146
Core	2	8 GB	60 GB	€19.00	€0.0264
Forge	4	16 GB	80 GB	€30.00	€0.0417
Apex	6	24 GB	100 GB	€49.00	€0.0680
Titan	8	32 GB	120 GB	€86.00	€0.1195

Streaming line	vCPU	RAM	NVMe	Per month
Flux	1	2 GB	20 GB	€15.49
Surge	2	4 GB	40 GB	€27.99
Torrent	4	8 GB	60 GB	€50.99
Cascade	6	16 GB	80 GB	€84.99
Delta	8	24 GB	100 GB	€120.99
Vortex	12	32 GB	120 GB	€177.99

Prices are in euro, before VAT where it applies. Traffic is unmetered on every plan.

The hardware behind it

The Ashburn node is built on AMD EPYC 9754 processors with 128 cores each, and 24 enterprise NVMe drives with power loss protection in a ZFS pool with parity, so a single failed drive is replaced without data loss or downtime for the machines on it. The node has a 10 Gbps uplink, and the streaming line has no per server speed ceiling on it. Each plan is a full KVM virtual machine with its own kernel and memory, not a container.

Ordering

Choose a plan on the VPS page, or on the streaming page for video origins, and select United States as the location. The price updates before you pay. Existing customers will find United States in the location list of every order form in the client panel. If you are weighing a transatlantic setup and would like a second opinion on what to place where, reply to any email from us. We read every one, and we will tell you plainly if a single European server still does the job.