Ashburton, New Zealand

Hourly Game Server in Ashburton

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

2,088 km from Ashburton

31–63 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Ashburton. 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.

Asia-Pacific coverage 7 live

Ashburton is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.

Sydney Nearest 2,088 km · 31–63 ms Singapore 8,368 km · 126–251 ms Hong Kong 9,406 km · 141–282 ms Tokyo 9,423 km · 141–283 ms Los Angeles 11,189 km · 168–336 ms Kolkata 11,221 km · 168–337 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Ashburton ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia	2,088 km	31–63 ms
Singapore	8,368 km	126–251 ms
Hong Kong, China	9,406 km	141–282 ms
Tokyo, Japan	9,423 km	141–283 ms
Kolkata, India	11,221 km	168–337 ms
Mumbai, India	12,160 km	182–365 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,485 km	187–375 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States	11,189 km	168–336 ms
Santa Clara, United States	11,229 km	168–337 ms
Seattle, United States	12,042 km	181–361 ms
Dallas, United States	12,567 km	188–377 ms
Miami, United States	13,364 km	200–401 ms
Atlanta, United States	13,559 km	203–407 ms
Chicago, United States	13,809 km	207–414 ms
Toronto, Canada	14,494 km	217–435 ms
New York, United States	14,743 km	221–442 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel	16,071 km	241–482 ms
Bucharest, Romania	17,293 km	259–519 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	17,545 km	263–526 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	18,560 km	278–557 ms
Milan, Italy	18,627 km	279–559 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	18,662 km	280–560 ms
London, United Kingdom	18,974 km	285–569 ms
Madrid, Spain	19,475 km	292–584 ms

Distances are from Ashburton. 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 Ashburton

We host servers for companies throughout Ashburton, Canterbury and the rest of New Zealand. 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.

Sydney is our closest location at 2,088 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 Ashburton — 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 Ashburton players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Sydney is closest to Ashburton at 2,088 km, an estimated 31–63 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Ashburton

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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