Ann Arbor, United States

Hourly Game Server in Ann Arbor

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
Ann Arbor and its closest data centre Ann Arbor joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 324 km away. Ann Arbor Chicago Illinois, United States
324 km from Ann Arbor
5–10 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Ann Arbor. 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

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
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Chicago marked as the closest to Ann Arbor. Chicago Ann Arbor

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Ann Arbor ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 324 km 5–10 ms
Toronto, Canada 386 km 6–12 ms
New York, United States 829 km 12–25 ms
Atlanta, United States 950 km 14–29 ms
Dallas, United States 1,559 km 23–47 ms
Miami, United States 1,865 km 28–56 ms
Seattle, United States 3,062 km 46–92 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,128 km 47–94 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,281 km 49–98 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,083 km 91–182 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,347 km 95–190 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,422 km 96–193 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,662 km 100–200 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,700 km 101–201 ms
Milan, Italy 7,012 km 105–210 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,123 km 122–244 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,638 km 145–289 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,291 km 154–309 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,907 km 179–357 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,600 km 189–378 ms
Kolkata, India 12,759 km 191–383 ms
Mumbai, India 12,783 km 192–383 ms
Singapore 15,105 km 227–453 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,200 km 228–456 ms

Distances are from Ann Arbor. 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 Ann Arbor

We host servers for companies throughout Ann Arbor, MI 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 324 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 Ann Arbor — 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 Ann Arbor players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Chicago is closest to Ann Arbor at 324 km, an estimated 5–10 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Ann Arbor

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