Alma, Canada
Hourly Game Server in Alma
Spin up a server for a session or a weekend event, and stop paying when everyone logs off.
- ✓ Booked by the hour
- ✓ Any TCP or UDP port
- ✓ Taken down when you finish
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alma. 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
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, billed monthly, for anything with real users on it.
$83.90USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
Cores nobody else touches, billed monthly, for sustained work that must not slow down.
$94.90USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourBook 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.
Alma is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Alma ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 807 km | 12–24 ms |
| New York, United States | 891 km | 13–27 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,451 km | 22–44 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,955 km | 29–59 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,641 km | 40–79 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,730 km | 41–82 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 3,697 km | 55–111 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 4,136 km | 62–124 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 4,196 km | 63–126 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,912 km | 74–147 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,177 km | 78–155 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,285 km | 79–159 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,530 km | 83–166 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,530 km | 83–166 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,842 km | 88–175 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,956 km | 104–209 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 8,467 km | 127–254 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,150 km | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 10,907 km | 164–327 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 11,713 km | 176–351 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 11,860 km | 178–356 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,114 km | 182–363 ms |
| Singapore | 14,449 km | 217–433 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 16,140 km | 242–484 ms |
Distances are from Alma. 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 Alma
We host servers for companies throughout Alma, QC 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.
Toronto is our closest location at 807 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.
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