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San Francisco VPS hosting in the United States
This location carries the San Francisco name, but the server is in San Jose, in Silicon Valley. It suits Northern California, the West Coast and teams based in the Bay Area.
Plans in San Francisco
Prices in USD, excluding taxes. A 12-month term lowers the monthly price by 10%.
San Jose, not San Francisco
San Francisco is Leaseweb's name for this location. The data center, SFO-12, is at 1735 Lundy Ave in San Jose, in Silicon Valley. For this site Leaseweb gives Tier III, 4 carriers and 11 Internet Exchanges, and Virtual Private Server is among the products it names.
Where the Bay Area's peering is
Much of the Bay Area's peering sits in Silicon Valley, not in San Francisco itself: on 5 November 2026 PeeringDB showed 183 networks and 5 facilities on the Equinix Internet Exchange San Jose. SFMIX, which calls itself the Bay Area's nonprofit, member-governed exchange, says it peers with nearly 100 networks at 9 locations across San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara and Fremont.
No listed landing point in the Bay Area
TeleGeography lists no cable landing point inside the Bay Area, so do not read San Francisco as a cable-landing city. The landing points it lists around it are on the open coast:
- Eureka, to the north: Echo and TPU.
- Grover Beach, on the Central Coast: PC-1, PAC, Bifrost and JUNO.
- Morro Bay, on the Central Coast: Southern Cross, CHI and AAG.
- Manchester: planned for ORCA.
Northern California and the Northwest
This location suits Northern California and the US West Coast generally, along with teams or customers based in the Bay Area. The Pacific Northwest is also close.
City facts describe the place, not this service, and we claim no connection to any exchange or cable named here. Figures with no date were read in November 2026. Sources: PeeringDB, SFMIX, TeleGeography, Leaseweb.
Before you choose San Francisco
Is the server really in San Francisco?
No. It is in San Jose, at SFO-12. If you or your customers need to state where the server is, say San Jose, California.
Should I pick San Francisco or Los Angeles?
For West Coast users either is reasonable, so pick by where most of your users are. Northern California and the Pacific Northwest point here. Southern California, the Southwest and Mexico point to Los Angeles. If you are unsure, compare both test IPs from your users' networks.
Does the test server sit in SFO-12?
Leaseweb lists speedtest.sfo12.us.leaseweb.net under SFO-12, so the test shows the path from your network to that site. It is still Leaseweb's test server and not a VPS, so it says nothing about one. The network test guide shows what to run.
Is San Jose close enough for a team in San Francisco?
Both are in the Bay Area, so this is the location for that team. Ping the test IP from your office to measure the path to SFO-12.
