Boulder, United States

Hourly Game Server in Boulder

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

1,105 km from Boulder

17–33 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Boulder. 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

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

Dallas Nearest 1,105 km · 17–33 ms Los Angeles 1,327 km · 20–40 ms Santa Clara 1,476 km · 22–44 ms Chicago 1,493 km · 22–45 ms Seattle 1,603 km · 24–48 ms Atlanta 1,978 km · 30–59 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Boulder ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Dallas, United States	1,105 km	17–33 ms
Los Angeles, United States	1,327 km	20–40 ms
Santa Clara, United States	1,476 km	22–44 ms
Chicago, United States	1,493 km	22–45 ms
Seattle, United States	1,603 km	24–48 ms
Atlanta, United States	1,978 km	30–59 ms
Toronto, Canada	2,173 km	33–65 ms
New York, United States	2,636 km	40–79 ms
Miami, United States	2,812 km	42–84 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	7,533 km	113–226 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	7,744 km	116–232 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	7,809 km	117–234 ms
Madrid, Spain	8,067 km	121–242 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	8,107 km	122–243 ms
Milan, Italy	8,490 km	127–255 ms
Bucharest, Romania	9,442 km	142–283 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	11,005 km	165–330 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	9,297 km	139–279 ms
Hong Kong, China	11,969 km	180–359 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,388 km	186–372 ms
Kolkata, India	12,913 km	194–387 ms
Sydney, Australia	13,395 km	201–402 ms
Mumbai, India	13,442 km	202–403 ms
Singapore	14,548 km	218–436 ms

Distances are from Boulder. 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 Boulder

We host servers for companies throughout Boulder, CO 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.

Dallas is our closest location at 1,105 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 Boulder — 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 Boulder players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Dallas is closest to Boulder at 1,105 km, an estimated 17–33 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

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