Alberta, Canada

Hourly Game Server in Alberta

Spin up a server for a session or a weekend event, and stop paying when everyone logs off.

Book your server → From $0.1820 / hour

Booked by the hour
Any TCP or UDP port
Taken down when you finish

Closest location live

789 km from Alberta

12–24 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alberta. Your real figure depends on your connection and route, and lands inside this range.

Choose how the processor is shared

Every class ships the same hardware menu and the same Ubuntu Server 24.04 (LTS) 64-bit image. What changes is how the processor is shared — and the price moves with it.

Availability

Budget friendly

A cheap always-on server, billed monthly. The right answer when the work has no end date.

$72.90USD

per month

Configure

General purpose

Recommended

Consistent processor time, billed monthly, for anything with real users on it.

$83.90USD

per month

Configure

Dedicated

High performance

Cores nobody else touches, billed monthly, for sustained work that must not slow down.

$94.90USD

per month

Configure

Booked hourly

Burstable

This plan

Cheap while idle, billed only for the hours you book. Throttles under sustained load, which is the trade that makes it cheap.

$0.1820USD

per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed

Book by the hour

Book a bigger machine for the window rather than a smaller one for longer — an hour of a large server usually costs less than a day of a small one.

For a session, not a season

A community that plays on Saturday nights does not need a server on Tuesday afternoon. Booking by the hour matches the bill to the way people actually play.

Book the window

Name a start and an end. The server is built for that period and comes down at the end of it, and billing stops with it.

Any game, any port

Root access and any TCP or UDP range, so you run your own server binary rather than picking from a supported-games list.

Know the trade

Burstable is cheap while idle and throttles under sustained load. For a persistent competitive server, buy Dedicated instead — we would rather say so than take the order.

Where your server runs

All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server. Choose the region closest to whatever the job talks to most — the data you are moving, the site you are testing, the registry you are pulling from.

Americas coverage 9 live

Alberta is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.

Seattle Nearest 789 km · 12–24 ms Santa Clara 1,755 km · 26–53 ms Los Angeles 2,032 km · 30–61 ms Chicago 2,261 km · 34–68 ms Dallas 2,538 km · 38–76 ms Toronto 2,696 km · 40–81 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Alberta ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Seattle, United States	789 km	12–24 ms
Santa Clara, United States	1,755 km	26–53 ms
Los Angeles, United States	2,032 km	30–61 ms
Chicago, United States	2,261 km	34–68 ms
Dallas, United States	2,538 km	38–76 ms
Toronto, Canada	2,696 km	40–81 ms
Atlanta, United States	3,100 km	46–93 ms
New York, United States	3,246 km	49–97 ms
Miami, United States	4,051 km	61–122 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Stockholm, Sweden	6,898 km	103–207 ms
London, United Kingdom	6,935 km	104–208 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	7,074 km	106–212 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	7,431 km	111–223 ms
Madrid, Spain	7,724 km	116–232 ms
Milan, Italy	7,882 km	118–236 ms
Bucharest, Romania	8,619 km	129–259 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	10,171 km	153–305 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	7,955 km	119–239 ms
Hong Kong, China	10,532 km	158–316 ms
Delhi NCR, India	10,991 km	165–330 ms
Kolkata, India	11,446 km	172–343 ms
Mumbai, India	12,082 km	181–362 ms
Singapore	13,119 km	197–394 ms
Sydney, Australia	13,230 km	198–397 ms

Distances are from Alberta. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.

Booked for a window, not subscribed

Full root access from day one

Any Linux image, or Windows if you need it

Taken down when the job finishes

Included with every Burstable Server server, in every class, at every location.

Hourly game servers for Alberta

We host servers for companies throughout Alberta and the rest of Canada. You tell us what the server is for, we build it by hand, and you get access and the login details the same working day.

Seattle is our closest location at 789 km, which makes it the usual starting point. If the people using the server are somewhere else, host it somewhere else — every location costs the same.

Hourly Game Server in Alberta — FAQs

How is it billed?

By the hour, for the window you book — from $0.1820. This class is billed hourly and only hourly; there is no monthly option for it.

Is it good enough for a competitive server?

For a scheduled session among friends, yes. For a persistent server that has to hold a steady tick under a full lobby, no — that wants Dedicated, because Burstable throttles under exactly that kind of sustained load.

Can I run any game on it?

Anything you can install. You get root and any port range, so it is your server binary and your configuration.

Where should I host it for Alberta players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Seattle is closest to Alberta at 789 km, an estimated 12–24 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Alberta

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

Basic Ecommerce Chat Software IT & SaaS Software Dedicated Server Gaming Workstation RDP All Alberta hosting →

Burstable Server hosting nearby

Other towns we host for in the region.

Red Deer Sylvan Lake Airdrie Coventry Hills Evanston Panorama Hills Saddle Ridge Taradale Edgemont Tuscany Cochrane Chestermere