We shipped three features in the past week. No roadmap slides, no "coming soon" announcements — just finished products you can use right now.
Here's what went live.
Chicago Is Live
Our Chicago location is now accepting VM orders. Same specs as every other location: 10G ports, NVMe storage, SucuraGuard DDoS protection included. Same pricing.
Test IP: 142.248.30.11
Chicago gives us four US locations now — New York, Ashburn, Dallas, and Chicago. More geographic options means better latency for your users and more flexibility for your infrastructure.
If you're using the LET60 promotion code, it works on Chicago orders too.
Hourly Billing Through Nexus
You can now deploy VMs on-demand with hourly billing directly from the Nexus panel. No tickets, no waiting — add credit to your account and spin up VMs in any location whenever you need them.
- Add credit at services.sucura.ca
- Deploy VMs from the Nexus panel in any location
- Billing invoiced daily to your services account
- Delete VMs when you're done — you only pay for what you use
Starting at $0.010/hr. Same infrastructure — 10G ports, NVMe, DDoS protection — without monthly commitments.
Monthly plans still exist and make more sense for long-running infrastructure. Hourly is for when you need something now, or don't know how long you'll need it.
BGP Peering, Self-Service
Set up BGP sessions directly from the Nexus panel. Any VM, any location. No tickets, no back-and-forth with support.
- Announce your own prefixes through AS398999
- All locations supported — NYC, Ashburn, Dallas, Chicago
- Default route or full table export
- SucuraGuard DDoS protection covers your announced space
- Automated verification — ASN and prefix validation via WHOIS
The setup is straightforward: verify your ASN in the BGP tab, add your prefixes, create a session on your VM, and peer with the neighbor IP shown in the panel.
One note: prefix filter propagation across upstreams can take up to 24 hours after verification. That's upstream provider behavior, not something we control.
Why This Matters
Most hosting providers announce features months before they ship. We ship first.
Three launches in a week isn't about moving fast for the sake of it. It's because our customers asked for these things and we had the engineering capacity to deliver. Chicago was requested by users who needed a Midwest presence. Hourly billing was requested by users who wanted to test without monthly commitments. BGP peering was requested by network operators who wanted self-service control over their announcements.
We build what our customers need. That's it.
What's Next
We don't publish roadmaps because plans change. What we can say is we're continuing to expand locations, improve the Nexus panel, and add features that make managing infrastructure easier.
If there's something you need, tell us. Discord is the fastest way to reach us, and feature requests from active customers are how we decide what to build next.
— Eric B
President, Sucura Networks
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