Dedicated bare metal servers in our Chicago data center, deployed in under 10 minutes. Peering at Equinix Chicago and DE-CIX Chicago in the 350 E Cermak ecosystem, 18 ms to New York.
Dedicated bare metal servers in Chicago with access to the Midwest's densest carrier hotel ecosystem, unmetered premium bandwidth, and 24/7 on-site support.Explore Features
Run dedicated bare metal servers in Chicago, the crossroads of US transcontinental fiber anchored by the 350 E Cermak carrier hotel. Upstream transit comes from AT&T, Lumen, Verizon, and Zayo, with peering at Equinix Chicago and DE-CIX Chicago and 18 ms to New York.
The facility is Tier-3+ with a 99.99% uptime SLA and 24/7 on-site support. Chicago's central position balances latency to both US coasts and sits next to CME trading infrastructure.
Quick answers to common questions about deploying compute, bare metal and cloud connectivity in Chicago.
Zenlayer's Chicago location is in the NORTH AMERICA region. Upstream connectivity is provided through COGENT, GTT.
Zenlayer Cloud Connect supports dedicated Layer 2 paths from Chicago to major hyperscalers. See the Cloud Connect panel on this page for the clouds currently available at this location.
Chicago is connected to the Zenlayer private backbone with deterministic, low-latency paths to other Zenlayer locations. The full latency matrix is published on this page. You can also use Looking Glass on this page to run live PING / MTR / BGP checks.
Bare metal cloud (BMC) servers aren't generally available in Chicago yet. Contact us to scope custom or bulk deployments, or see the Bare Metal documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
Zenlayer Elastic Compute (ZEC) virtual machines aren't available in Chicago yet. Contact us for availability, or see the Elastic Compute documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
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Deploy your infrastructure in Chicago today and bridge the US East and West Coasts with central low-latency coverage.