Bloomington, United States

Hourly Game Server in Bloomington

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
Bloomington and its closest data centre Bloomington joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 192 km away. Bloomington Chicago Illinois, United States
192 km from Bloomington
3–6 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Bloomington. 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 Chicago marked as the closest to Bloomington. Chicago Bloomington

Bloomington is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Bloomington ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 192 km 3–6 ms
Atlanta, United States 853 km 13–26 ms
Toronto, Canada 867 km 13–26 ms
Dallas, United States 1,103 km 17–33 ms
New York, United States 1,264 km 19–38 ms
Miami, United States 1,828 km 27–55 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,672 km 40–80 ms
Seattle, United States 2,756 km 41–83 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,856 km 43–86 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,542 km 98–196 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,799 km 102–204 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,901 km 104–207 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,072 km 106–212 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,154 km 107–215 ms
Milan, Italy 7,477 km 112–224 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,568 km 129–257 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,093 km 151–303 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,196 km 153–306 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,213 km 183–366 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,632 km 189–379 ms
Kolkata, India 12,998 km 195–390 ms
Mumbai, India 13,132 km 197–394 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,734 km 221–442 ms
Singapore 15,185 km 228–456 ms

Distances are from Bloomington. 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 Bloomington

We host servers for companies throughout Bloomington, IL 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.

Chicago is our closest location at 192 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 Bloomington — 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 Bloomington players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Chicago is closest to Bloomington at 192 km, an estimated 3–6 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Bloomington

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