Why a US location at all
Most of our customers who want privacy-first hosting choose Europe, and the prices reward them for it. A US server is the right call for a narrower set of reasons, and they are good ones. The first is audience: if your users are in North America, a server in Europe adds 80 to 150 ms to every round trip, and no amount of caching fixes the first byte. The second is access: a growing number of services, APIs, streaming catalogues and app-store regions respond differently to a non-US IP address or refuse it outright, and a US VPS is the simplest way to have a US presence that you control. The third is topology: Ashburn, Virginia is the densest datacenter market on the planet and the natural meeting point for East Coast and transatlantic traffic, while Hillsboro, Oregon sits next to the landing points of several transpacific cables and is the right place to serve the US West Coast and reach Asia.
What a US server does not do is change the legal position of BitVPS. The company operates under US law regardless of where a server is placed, so a European server is not a way of escaping US process and a US server is not a way of inviting more of it; the location decides which datacenter and which network your machine lives in, and which country its IP address is seen to belong to. Everything else about the service is identical: no account, no KYC, an email address for the access link, and the same payment options.
East Coast or West Coast: latency
Approximate round-trip times from public measurements. Ashburn (ash) is in Northern Virginia, a few milliseconds from Washington, DC; Hillsboro (hil) is outside Portland, Oregon. The two are 65 to 75 ms apart.
| From | Ashburn, VA (East) | Hillsboro, OR (West) |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 to 8 ms | 65 to 75 ms |
| Miami | 28 to 30 ms | 75 to 85 ms |
| Toronto | 20 to 25 ms | 60 to 70 ms |
| Chicago | 18 to 20 ms | 45 to 50 ms |
| Dallas | 30 to 35 ms | 40 to 50 ms |
| Denver | 40 to 45 ms | 25 to 35 ms |
| Los Angeles | 55 to 62 ms | 25 to 30 ms |
| Seattle | 60 to 65 ms | 5 to 10 ms |
| London | 70 to 80 ms | 135 to 145 ms |
| Frankfurt | 80 to 90 ms | 145 to 155 ms |
| Tokyo | 165 to 175 ms | 95 to 110 ms |
| Singapore | 220 to 240 ms | 165 to 180 ms |
The rule of thumb: Ashburn for the East Coast, the Midwest, Canada east of Winnipeg and anyone who also needs Europe; Hillsboro for the Pacific states, Western Canada and anyone who also needs Japan, Korea or Australia. If you have to serve the whole country from one box, Ashburn has the better best case and Hillsboro the better worst case for Asia; a central US location would be ideal and we do not have one, so measure and pick the coast where most of your users are.
# Compare both coasts from a user's network. Rent a day of each ($1.07 for BVX11)
# rather than trusting any table, this one included.
mtr -rwzc 30 YOUR.ASHBURN.IP
mtr -rwzc 30 YOUR.HILLSBORO.IPUS pricing, honestly
Shared-vCPU plans cost more in the US than in Europe, and the gap is large at the bottom of the range: BVX11 with 2 vCPU, 2 GB and 40 GB NVMe is $10 a month in Germany or Finland and $32 in Ashburn or Hillsboro. The reason is simply that US datacenter capacity, power and transit cost more than in Central Europe, and we pass the regional price through rather than averaging it across locations. The BVG dedicated-vCPU plans are a different story: they are offered at the same price in the US as in Europe for every size but the 32-core one (which is $50 more), starting at $80 for 2 dedicated EPYC cores and 8 GB. That changes the calculation. In Europe a BVX plan is almost always the better value for a small workload; in the US, once you need more than the smallest box, the BVG family is often cheaper per core and per gigabyte than the shared plans, and the cores are never oversubscribed.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | US per month | US per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BVX11 (shared x86) | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB | $32 | $1.07 |
| BVX21 (shared x86) | 3 | 4 GB | 80 GB | $60 | $2.00 |
| BVX31 (shared x86) | 4 | 8 GB | 160 GB | $120 | $4.00 |
| BVX41 (shared x86) | 8 | 16 GB | 240 GB | $225 | $7.50 |
| BVX51 (shared x86) | 16 | 32 GB | 360 GB | $450 | $15.00 |
| BVG13 (dedicated vCPU) | 2 | 8 GB | 80 GB | $80 | $2.67 |
| BVG23 (dedicated vCPU) | 4 | 16 GB | 160 GB | $160 | $5.33 |
| BVG33 (dedicated vCPU) | 8 | 32 GB | 240 GB | $250 | $8.33 |
| BVG43 (dedicated vCPU) | 16 | 64 GB | 360 GB | $500 | $16.67 |
| BVG53 (dedicated vCPU) | 32 | 128 GB | 600 GB | $1000 | $33.33 |
| BVG63 (dedicated vCPU) | 48 | 192 GB | 960 GB | $1550 | $51.67 |
The configure page shows the exact price for the location you select before you pay. The newer BVX12 to BVX62 generation, the Arm (BVA) and the cost-optimised (BVCX) families are not sold in the US locations. Traffic is 20 TB a month outbound on every plan, inbound free, and the prepaid-by-the-day model applies as everywhere: a week of BVG13 in Ashburn is about $18.70.
Jurisdiction and privacy notes
- BitVPS operates under US law in every location. Choosing a US datacenter changes where the hardware is and which network your traffic traverses, not who we answer to. The no-KYC guide describes exactly what we hold about a server: an email address, the plan, location and OS, the paid period and a settled invoice.
- The US has no federal equivalent of the GDPR. Sector laws and state statutes such as California’s CCPA apply to businesses based on who their users are, not on where a server stands; if you process EU residents’ data on a US server you are doing an international transfer under the GDPR and need a basis for it.
- Virginia and Oregon are both ordinary US jurisdictions for hosting purposes. Neither has a data-localisation rule that affects a VPS tenant, and neither restricts payment in cryptocurrency.
- Time zones: Ashburn is on Eastern Time (America/New_York, UTC-5 in winter, UTC-4 in summer); Hillsboro is on Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles, UTC-8 and UTC-7). Server images boot on UTC and should stay there.
- The same Acceptable Use Policy applies: no cryptocurrency mining, no spam, no scanning, no Tor exit nodes. Tor relays and bridges are fine in the US as elsewhere.
What people run in the US locations
- A US exit for WireGuard: a BVX11 in Ashburn by the month, or by the day while travelling, gives you a US IP address you control instead of a shared VPN pool that every streaming service already knows.
- Game and voice servers for North American players, placed on the coast where the group lives; dedicated BVG cores help with tick-rate-sensitive servers.
- Latency-sensitive integrations with services hosted in Northern Virginia, which includes a very large share of the public cloud. From Ashburn those calls are single-digit milliseconds.
- A US-facing replica or CDN origin for a site whose primary runs in Europe, so North American visitors get their first byte from the same continent.
- Scrapers, monitors and test clients that need to see what a US visitor sees. Keep within the AUP: no scanning, no abuse.
Ordering a US server with crypto
The flow is the same as for any location. On the configure page pick a plan and choose Ashburn, Virginia or Hillsboro, Oregon; the price updates to the US figure immediately. Choose an OS (Ubuntu 24.04 by default), the number of days, paste an SSH key, enter an email address and pay in Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Solana or by card. Crypto has a per-coin minimum of a few dollars, so very short rentals of the smallest plan may need a card or a second day. Confirmation times are 10 to 30 minutes for Bitcoin and a few minutes for the other coins; the access link follows and includes the onion address of your management page if you prefer to manage over Tor.
Which plan to pick
For a US IP, a VPN endpoint or a light web service, BVX11 at $32 is the entry point and renting it by the day keeps the cost proportional to use. For anything heavier, go straight to BVG13 at $80 or BVG23 at $160: dedicated cores at the European price are the best value in the US line-up. Choose Ashburn unless your users or your upstream services are on the Pacific side. Configure a server, pick the coast, and pay in the currency you prefer.