Alton, United States

Hourly Game Server in Alton

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

396 km from Alton

6–12 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alton. 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

Alton is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Chicago Nearest 396 km · 6–12 ms Atlanta 772 km · 12–23 ms Dallas 904 km · 14–27 ms Toronto 1,045 km · 16–31 ms New York 1,395 km · 21–42 ms Miami 1,733 km · 26–52 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Alton ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States	396 km	6–12 ms
Atlanta, United States	772 km	12–23 ms
Dallas, United States	904 km	14–27 ms
Toronto, Canada	1,045 km	16–31 ms
New York, United States	1,395 km	21–42 ms
Miami, United States	1,733 km	26–52 ms
Los Angeles, United States	2,555 km	38–77 ms
Seattle, United States	2,754 km	41–83 ms
Santa Clara, United States	2,770 km	42–83 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	6,738 km	101–202 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	6,998 km	105–210 ms
Madrid, Spain	7,081 km	106–212 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	7,277 km	109–218 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	7,352 km	110–221 ms
Milan, Italy	7,671 km	115–230 ms
Bucharest, Romania	8,768 km	132–263 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	10,291 km	154–309 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	10,273 km	154–308 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,408 km	186–372 ms
Hong Kong, China	12,752 km	191–383 ms
Kolkata, India	13,179 km	198–395 ms
Mumbai, India	13,332 km	200–400 ms
Sydney, Australia	14,594 km	219–438 ms
Singapore	15,317 km	230–460 ms

Distances are from Alton. 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 Alton

We host servers for companies throughout Alton, IL and the rest of United States. 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.

Chicago is our closest location at 396 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 Alton — 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 Alton players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Chicago is closest to Alton at 396 km, an estimated 6–12 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

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Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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