Austin, United States

Hourly Game Server in Austin

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

293 km from Austin

4–9 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Austin. 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

Austin is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.

Dallas Nearest 293 km · 4–9 ms Atlanta 1,316 km · 20–39 ms Chicago 1,576 km · 24–47 ms Miami 1,792 km · 27–54 ms Los Angeles 1,972 km · 30–59 ms Toronto 2,199 km · 33–66 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Austin ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Dallas, United States	293 km	4–9 ms
Atlanta, United States	1,316 km	20–39 ms
Chicago, United States	1,576 km	24–47 ms
Miami, United States	1,792 km	27–54 ms
Los Angeles, United States	1,972 km	30–59 ms
Toronto, Canada	2,199 km	33–66 ms
Santa Clara, United States	2,364 km	35–71 ms
New York, United States	2,432 km	36–73 ms
Seattle, United States	2,848 km	43–85 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	7,910 km	119–237 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	8,175 km	123–245 ms
Madrid, Spain	8,196 km	123–246 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	8,452 km	127–254 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	8,528 km	128–256 ms
Milan, Italy	8,836 km	133–265 ms
Bucharest, Romania	9,948 km	149–298 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	11,466 km	172–344 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	10,544 km	158–316 ms
Hong Kong, China	13,247 km	199–397 ms
Delhi NCR, India	13,456 km	202–404 ms
Sydney, Australia	13,630 km	204–409 ms
Kolkata, India	14,103 km	212–423 ms
Mumbai, India	14,437 km	217–433 ms
Singapore	15,822 km	237–475 ms

Distances are from Austin. 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 Austin

We host servers for companies across Austin — from Downtown, South Congress, East Austin, the Domain and Zilker — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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.

Dallas is our closest location at 293 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 Austin — 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 Austin players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Dallas is closest to Austin at 293 km, an estimated 4–9 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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