Arcata, United States

Hourly Game Server in Arcata

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
Arcata and its closest data centre Arcata joined by a link to the Santa Clara data centre, 432 km away. Arcata Santa Clara California, United States
432 km from Arcata
6–13 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Arcata. 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 Santa Clara marked as the closest to Arcata. Santa Clara Arcata

Arcata is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Arcata ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States 432 km 6–13 ms
Seattle, United States 762 km 11–23 ms
Los Angeles, United States 916 km 14–27 ms
Dallas, United States 2,577 km 39–77 ms
Chicago, United States 3,021 km 45–91 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,567 km 54–107 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,647 km 55–109 ms
New York, United States 4,156 km 62–125 ms
Miami, United States 4,356 km 65–131 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 7,969 km 120–239 ms
Hong Kong, China 10,771 km 162–323 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,987 km 180–360 ms
Sydney, Australia 11,994 km 180–360 ms
Kolkata, India 12,205 km 183–366 ms
Mumbai, India 13,123 km 197–394 ms
Singapore 13,280 km 199–398 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Stockholm, Sweden 8,344 km 125–250 ms
London, United Kingdom 8,403 km 126–252 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8,544 km 128–256 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 8,901 km 134–267 ms
Madrid, Spain 9,157 km 137–275 ms
Milan, Italy 9,351 km 140–281 ms
Bucharest, Romania 10,075 km 151–302 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 11,618 km 174–349 ms

Distances are from Arcata. 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 Arcata

We host servers for companies throughout Arcata, CA 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.

Santa Clara is our closest location at 432 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 Arcata — 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 Arcata players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Santa Clara is closest to Arcata at 432 km, an estimated 6–13 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Arcata

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

Burstable Server hosting nearby

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