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When you need a VPS in the USA and which coast to choose
The USA is the largest VPS market by number of hosts and plans. But if you and your users are elsewhere — in Europe, for example — an American server is a deliberate choice rather than the default: it's far away, and latency is noticeably higher. It's justified when your users, partners or the services you depend on are in North America.
When a US location makes sense
- An audience in the USA and Canada. A website, online store or game server for Americans should be in America; otherwise every page load loses 100 ms or more.
- Working with American APIs and services. Payment gateways, cloud APIs and ad dashboards respond faster if the server is close to them.
- A US IP address for testing websites, checking ads and regional search results.
- Trading robots connected to brokers in New York: ping to the broker affects order execution. There's a separate selection for this, Forex VPS in New York.
East coast or west coast
From Europe the east coast is noticeably closer than the west, with the central states somewhere in between. Hence a simple rule:
- an audience in Europe plus the USA — the east: New York, New Jersey, Ashburn in Virginia, home to one of the world's largest data centre clusters;
- the whole country evenly — the centre: Dallas, Chicago;
- an audience in the west or in Asia — the west: Los Angeles, Seattle, San Jose.
For a corporate VPN with a team in Europe, an American server almost always loses to a European one because of latency; take it if your offices or employees are in North America.
Traffic and bandwidth
Many American plans come with a traffic cap of a few terabytes a month, and going over is billed separately or throttles the speed. Cheap offers sometimes have a shared port with no guaranteed bandwidth. If you serve files or video or have many users, compare the traffic cap and port speed, not just the price. Also check whether an IPv4 address is included in the price.
Another nuance is DDoS protection. American data centres are frequent targets of attacks, and many providers include basic filtering in the plan, while cheap offers may have none at all. For a game server or a public API this matters more than an extra gigabyte of memory. Finally, consider time zones: an American host's support works US business hours, which may be night-time where you are.
Payment
American hosts most often take cards and PayPal, and a noticeable share also accept cryptocurrency. Be prepared for checks: some providers verify new customers and may ask for documents before activating the server. The "Payment" column in the table above shows the methods for each plan; prices are shown in your currency and sorted in ascending order.