Table of Contents
- Who has an East Coast datacenter, and where
- Two corridors: northern New Jersey and northern Virginia
- Entry plans by location
- InterServer in Secaucus: the East Coast value pick
- Vultr and DigitalOcean: the platform picks
- Ashburn: Hetzner, RackNerd and what the price actually is
- Atlanta and Miami
- Picks by where your users are
- FAQ
- Sources
Who has an East Coast datacenter, and where
| Provider | East Coast locations | Entry plan there | Monthly | Billing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| InterServer | New York City region (Secaucus, NJ campus) | 1 slice: 1 core, 2 GB, 40 GB SSD, 2 TB | $3 | Monthly only |
| Vultr | New Jersey, Atlanta, Miami | vc2-1c-1gb: 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB, 1 TB (512 MB plans in NJ and Atlanta) | $5 ($2.50 IPv6-only) | Hourly |
| DigitalOcean | New York | Basic 1 GB: 1 vCPU, 25 GB, 1 TB (512 MiB at $4) | $6 ($4) | Per-second |
| Hetzner | Ashburn, VA | CPX11: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 40 GB NVMe, 1 TB | $20.49 | Hourly |
| RackNerd | New York, Ashburn, Atlanta | 512 MB KVM: 1 vCore, 30 GB, 500 GB | $26.99 per year | Annual |
| Contabo | US East (Carlstadt NJ) | Cloud VPS 4: 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 100 GB, 200 Mbit/s port | $6.60 (24-month intro) | Monthly |
| Hostinger | US location | KVM 1: 1 vCPU, 4 GB, 50 GB NVMe, 4 TB | $6.49 (24-month term, renews $11.99) | Term |
Locations are from each provider's own locations page; entry prices from its pricing page or public API on the same day (September 2026). Hostinger lists a US location without naming the coast on its VPS page, so it is included for completeness rather than placed on the map.
Two corridors: northern New Jersey and northern Virginia
East Coast hosting concentrates in two places. Northern New Jersey (Secaucus, Newark, Piscataway) is the datacenter belt across the river from Manhattan, home to the exchange colocation sites and most "New York" cloud regions, which are rarely inside the city itself. Northern Virginia (Ashburn, Sterling) is the largest datacenter market in the world and where the hyperscalers' us-east regions live. Atlanta and Miami serve the Southeast and, in Miami's case, Latin America.
For latency the rule is simple: pick the corridor your users are on. New Jersey for the Northeast, Ashburn for the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, Atlanta or Miami for Florida and the Gulf. The gap between New Jersey and Ashburn is a few milliseconds either way; the gap between either and a West Coast server is tens of milliseconds, which is what users notice. We do not publish latency measurements of our own; every provider on this page offers a test IP or a looking-glass page, and the US datacenter guide explains how to run the test yourself before you buy.
Entry plans by location
Same-day prices for the smallest plan with at least 2 GB of RAM, which is the floor for running a site with a database (the cheapest VPS page covers the 512 MB tier):
| Location | Provider and plan | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York City (Secaucus, NJ) | InterServer, 1 slice | 1 | 2 GB | 40 GB SSD | 2 TB | $3 |
| New Jersey | Vultr, vc2-1c-2gb | 1 | 2 GB | 55 GB SSD | 2 TB | $10 |
| New York | DigitalOcean, Basic 2 GB | 1 | 2 GB | 50 GB SSD | 2 TB | $12 |
| Ashburn | Hetzner, CPX11 | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB NVMe | 1 TB | $20.49 |
| US East (Carlstadt NJ) | Contabo, Cloud VPS 4 | 4 | 8 GB | 100 GB SSD | Unlimited, 200 Mbit/s | $6.60 |
| Atlanta or Miami | Vultr, vc2-1c-2gb | 1 | 2 GB | 55 GB SSD | 2 TB | $10 |
InterServer in Secaucus: the East Coast value pick
InterServer's New York City region is its Secaucus, New Jersey campus, where the company's datacenter page lists its own TEB2 facility together with space in Equinix NY4, H5 Datacenter and CoreSite NY2. Cloud VPS there starts at $3 a month for one slice (1 core, 2 GB, 40 GB SSD, 2 TB, shared 10 Gbps port), $6 for two slices (4 GB) and $12 for four (2 cores, 8 GB), billed month to month with no term (September 2026).
That makes it the cheapest usable server on the corridor by a factor of three against Vultr's New Jersey region and four against DigitalOcean's New York region. What you give up is spelled out on InterServer's FAQ: no trial or refund, no hourly billing, no advertised API or snapshots. For a site, an app or a small business server that runs all month and needs to be near New York, it is the first plan to price. The InterServer review has the ordering guide and the first-hour setup checklist.
Vultr and DigitalOcean: the platform picks
Vultr's New Jersey region carries its full catalog: the $2.50 IPv6-only and $3.50 512 MB instances, the $5 1 GB plan, the $10 2 GB plan and everything above, all billed hourly with the API, snapshots and block storage that InterServer does not offer. Vultr is also the only provider here with Atlanta and Miami. DigitalOcean's New York region is the same shape at $4, $6 and $12, with per-second billing and DigitalOcean's managed database and app platform next door. If you deploy from code, or you need a region south of New Jersey, these are the East Coast picks; you pay for the platform in memory per dollar.
Ashburn: Hetzner, RackNerd and what the price actually is
Hetzner's Ashburn location gets asked about more than any other on this site, usually by readers who expect the European prices. It does not have them. In Ashburn the catalog is CPX11 to CPX51 (from $20.49 for 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 40 GB NVMe, 1 TB) and the dedicated-vCPU CCX line (from $50.99). The 20 TB traffic allowance is a European figure; US locations include 1 TB. Hetzner's tooling is as good in Ashburn as anywhere, and CCX13 is a fair price for dedicated cores, but a 2 GB CPX11 costs seven times InterServer's slice. The Hetzner review lays out both catalogs.
RackNerd lists Ashburn, New York and Atlanta among its KVM locations. Its public 512 MB plan is $26.99 a year, and its promotional plans are lower. That makes it the budget option for a small annual box on the corridor, with the memory limits that implies. See the RackNerd review for the current deals.
Atlanta and Miami
For Florida, the Gulf and Latin American traffic, the Northeast corridor adds latency that a Southeast datacenter avoids. Vultr is the provider on this site with both Atlanta and Miami at its standard prices; RackNerd has Atlanta on its annual plans. InterServer, DigitalOcean, Hetzner and Contabo do not have a Southeast location, so a reader whose users are in Miami is choosing between Vultr's Miami region and a New Jersey or Ashburn server with slightly higher latency.
Picks by where your users are
- New York, Boston, the Northeast: InterServer in Secaucus ($3 to $12); Vultr New Jersey if you need hourly billing.
- Washington, Virginia, the Carolinas: Hetzner CCX in Ashburn for dedicated cores, RackNerd Ashburn for a budget annual box, or InterServer in Secaucus if a few milliseconds do not matter.
- Florida and the Southeast: Vultr Atlanta or Miami.
- Trading and finance workloads near the exchanges: the forex VPS page covers the New Jersey facilities and what proximity actually buys.
- Users on both coasts: InterServer has New York and Los Angeles at the same price; Vultr has both plus everything between. The US datacenter guide has the full map.