Athens, United States

Hourly Game Server in Athens

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

531 km from Athens

8–16 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Athens. 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

Athens is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.

Toronto Nearest 531 km · 8–16 ms Chicago 546 km · 8–16 ms Atlanta 653 km · 10–20 ms New York 706 km · 11–21 ms Dallas 1,506 km · 23–45 ms Miami 1,519 km · 23–46 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Athens ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Toronto, Canada	531 km	8–16 ms
Chicago, United States	546 km	8–16 ms
Atlanta, United States	653 km	10–20 ms
New York, United States	706 km	11–21 ms
Dallas, United States	1,506 km	23–45 ms
Miami, United States	1,519 km	23–46 ms
Los Angeles, United States	3,253 km	49–98 ms
Seattle, United States	3,333 km	50–100 ms
Santa Clara, United States	3,455 km	52–104 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	6,195 km	93–186 ms
Madrid, Spain	6,454 km	97–194 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	6,474 km	97–194 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	6,821 km	102–205 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	6,851 km	103–206 ms
Milan, Italy	7,108 km	107–213 ms
Bucharest, Romania	8,259 km	124–248 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	9,751 km	146–293 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	10,640 km	160–319 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,175 km	183–365 ms
Hong Kong, China	12,954 km	194–389 ms
Mumbai, India	13,019 km	195–391 ms
Kolkata, India	13,061 km	196–392 ms
Sydney, Australia	15,286 km	229–459 ms
Singapore	15,451 km	232–464 ms

Distances are from Athens. 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 Athens

We host servers for companies throughout Athens, OH 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.

Toronto is our closest location at 531 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 Athens — 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 Athens players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Toronto is closest to Athens at 531 km, an estimated 8–16 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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