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Amherst Systems provides colocation and bare metal in the Boston metro, on its own network, AS402389. Cloud-style VPS hosting, system administration, and development services are also available for teams that want compute and operations from the same partner.

Amherst Systems operates from Digital Realty BOS14 at 128 First Avenue, Needham, MA 02494, serving the Boston metro market. The facility holds SOC 2, SOC 3, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 and runs N+1 UPS and N+1 cooling.

Amherst Systems runs its own autonomous system with 100G of active Cogent transit, a separate standby TowardEX circuit, and a 100G port into MASS-IX in the same building. Standby capacity is excluded from the active total.

It is built for teams that want rack-level control and a direct engineering relationship: companies moving out of public cloud, agencies and providers needing regional presence, and businesses with hardware they would rather own than rent.

Yes. Amherst Systems offers development services for websites, dashboards, portals, internal tools, and other JavaScript or TypeScript projects that need custom scoping rather than a generic package tier.

Amherst Systems colocates at Digital Realty BOS14, 128 First Avenue, Needham, MA 02494, serving the Boston metro market. The facility holds SOC 2, SOC 3, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001, and runs N+1 UPS and N+1 cooling.

Footprints start at a single rack unit and scale to a full 45U cabinet. Space is billed per U at $10.00 per month, dropping to $5.00 per U per month at ten units and above, and a full cabinet with 4kW and a 10G uplink is bundled at $1,315.00 per month.

Power is metered at 208V and billed per amp at $63.18 per month, which works out to $0.3038 per watt. Low-draw deployments can be billed per watt instead, so a 50W device is $15.19 per month.

Yes. The facility is carrier-neutral, so you can cross-connect to any provider in the building. A 1G port is included at no charge, and Amherst Systems also peers on MASS-IX over a 100G port for New England traffic.

Yes. The facility has 24x7 onsite security personnel and technician access with biometric and photo badge control, and Amherst Systems can carry out hands-on work on your equipment under the system administration rates.

A minimum footprint of one rack unit with one 208V amp and the included 1G port starts at about $73 per month. Larger footprints move onto volume space pricing and metered power.

A full 45U cabinet with 4kW of power and a single 10G uplink is $1,315.00 per month with a $2,250.00 setup charge. That bundle is priced below the sum of the same components bought individually.

IP transit is billed on the 95th percentile and starts at 50 Mbps for $5.53 per month. Commitments receive 10% off from 2 Gbps, 15% off from 5 Gbps, and 20% off from 10 Gbps; usage above commit is $0.16 per Mbps.

Ports above 1G carry a monthly charge and, at 40G and 100G, a one-time setup charge. Cross-connects to other providers in the building and any hands-on work are quoted with the footprint.

Bare metal is single-tenant hardware that Amherst Systems owns and operates on your behalf in Digital Realty BOS14. You get the whole machine with no hypervisor and no noisy neighbours, on the same network as our colocation customers.

With colocation you own the hardware and we provide the space, power, and network. With bare metal we provide the hardware as well, so there is no capital purchase and no hardware lifecycle for you to manage.

Bare metal builds are quoted around the workload, since the machine profile, storage pattern, and bandwidth expectations drive most of the cost. Contact Amherst Systems for a quote on a specific configuration.

Yes. Bare metal can be paired with the published system administration plans, which start at $100 per month for one server, or left entirely self-managed.

Amherst Systems operates AS402389 from Digital Realty BOS14 with 100G of active Cogent transit, a standby TowardEX circuit, and a 100G port into MASS-IX for regional peering.

Active IP transit is delivered over a 100G Cogent port. A separate 10G TowardEX circuit remains on standby for failover and is not included in the active-capacity total.

MASS-IX is a New England peering fabric with a point of presence in the same building as our cabinets, so regional traffic can take a short, direct path instead of transiting out of the metro and back.

Amherst Systems VPS hosting is designed for web applications, internal tooling, game servers, bots, and other workloads that need fast deployment, predictable plans, and NVMe-backed storage.

VPS instances run on the same Boston-metro infrastructure and the same network, AS402389, as our colocation and bare metal customers, so a hybrid footprint stays on one network path.

Amherst Systems publishes VPS pricing on a dedicated comparison page with separate managed and unmanaged paths so buyers can review the right pricing model directly.

The split makes the buying decision clearer. Unmanaged VPS is for teams that handle routine administration themselves, while managed VPS adds the published management layer on top of the selected base VPS plan.

Use the unmanaged VPS pricing page to compare the published Nano through Enterprise plans and review the base infrastructure pricing without an added management layer.

Use the managed VPS pricing page to review how the base VPS plan and the Lite, Standard, or Pro management layer fit together for a one-server deployment.

Amherst Systems unmanaged VPS hosting starts at $4.99 per month for the Nano plan, with higher tiers available for more CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth.

The published unmanaged VPS plans are positioned around NVMe storage, predictable monthly resource tiers, support availability, and the Amherst Systems uptime SLA.

Unmanaged VPS is intended for teams that are comfortable handling routine server administration, patching, configuration, and day-to-day operating-system work themselves.

Managed VPS starts with a base unmanaged VPS plan and adds one of the published Lite, Standard, or Pro management tiers on top for one server.

Yes. Managed VPS uses the same underlying VPS plans. The difference is that server administration, monitoring options, and response priority are added through the management layer.

Managed VPS is intended for teams that want the flexibility of a VPS but do not want to handle all routine server administration themselves.

A dedicated server is the better fit when a workload needs single-tenant hardware, stronger performance consistency, direct infrastructure control, or software that should not share a host.

Yes. Amherst Systems positions dedicated servers as single-tenant hardware reserved for one customer and one workload profile at a time.

Dedicated servers are quote based, with separate managed and unmanaged pricing-intent pages to clarify whether ongoing server administration is part of the engagement.

The split separates the hardware decision from the support decision. Unmanaged dedicated is for teams that operate the box themselves, while managed dedicated adds the published management layer to a quoted dedicated server.

No. Dedicated hardware remains quote based so the server profile, storage layout, bandwidth expectations, and protection requirements can be matched to the workload.

Use the dedicated pricing comparison page to choose between unmanaged dedicated and managed dedicated before opening the detail page that matches your operating model.

Unmanaged dedicated means the server hardware is provisioned for your workload, but your team remains responsible for routine server administration and day-to-day operating decisions.

Yes. The hardware stays quote based so the machine can be matched to the workload instead of forcing every deployment into a generic public template.

Unmanaged dedicated is intended for teams that want single-tenant hardware and are comfortable running the server themselves.

Managed dedicated combines quote-based dedicated hardware with the published Lite, Standard, or Pro management layer for one server.

No. The management plans are the admin layer only. The dedicated hardware itself is still quoted separately based on the workload and server requirements.

Managed dedicated is intended for teams that need single-tenant hardware but want Amherst Systems to handle routine administration, monitoring options, and operational support for that server.

Amherst Systems development services cover custom websites, web applications, dashboards, portals, internal tools, and other JavaScript or TypeScript projects scoped around the actual requirements of the build.

No. Websites are a common starting point, but the service also covers broader JavaScript or TypeScript work such as dashboards, admin panels, client portals, and custom browser-based tools.

No. Amherst Systems positions development services as quote based so scope, integrations, content, project complexity, and launch requirements can be matched to the actual work instead of forced into a generic tier.

Amherst Systems system administration covers small administrative tasks, config edits, panel setup, installs, backup setup, monitoring-related alerting, and planned server work for a single-server scope.

Yes. Managed Lite, Managed Standard, and Managed Pro are published as one-server plans. They can be applied to managed VPS or managed dedicated deployments, while multi-server environments and broader scope are custom quoted.

Emergency work is framed as urgent incident or outage response billed at $150 per hour. Amherst Systems does not publish a numeric public SLA on the page.