Ballina, Australia
Hourly Game Server in Ballina
Spin up a server for a session or a weekend event, and stop paying when everyone logs off.
- ✓ Booked by the hour
- ✓ Any TCP or UDP port
- ✓ Taken down when you finish
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Ballina. 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
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, billed monthly, for anything with real users on it.
$83.90USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
Cores nobody else touches, billed monthly, for sustained work that must not slow down.
$94.90USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourBook 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.
Ballina is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Ballina ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 598 km | 9–18 ms |
| Singapore | 6,256 km | 94–188 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,079 km | 106–212 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 7,320 km | 110–220 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 9,016 km | 135–270 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 10,152 km | 152–305 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 10,298 km | 154–309 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 11,465 km | 172–344 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 11,606 km | 174–348 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 11,926 km | 179–358 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 13,415 km | 201–402 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 14,409 km | 216–432 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 14,561 km | 218–437 ms |
| Miami, United States | 14,745 km | 221–442 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 15,089 km | 226–453 ms |
| New York, United States | 15,541 km | 233–466 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 14,209 km | 213–426 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 15,106 km | 227–453 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 15,252 km | 229–458 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 16,237 km | 244–487 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 16,344 km | 245–490 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 16,394 km | 246–492 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 16,680 km | 250–500 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 17,575 km | 264–527 ms |
Distances are from Ballina. 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 Ballina
We host servers for companies throughout Ballina, NSW and the rest of Australia. 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 598 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 Ballina — FAQs
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