Canterbury, New Zealand
Hourly Game Server in Canterbury
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 Canterbury. 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.
Canterbury is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Canterbury ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 2,102 km | 32–63 ms |
| Singapore | 8,384 km | 126–252 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 9,415 km | 141–282 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,422 km | 141–283 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 11,236 km | 169–337 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,178 km | 183–365 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,501 km | 188–375 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | 11,165 km | 167–335 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 11,206 km | 168–336 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 12,020 km | 180–361 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 12,543 km | 188–376 ms |
| Miami, United States | 13,342 km | 200–400 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 13,535 km | 203–406 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 13,786 km | 207–414 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 14,470 km | 217–434 ms |
| New York, United States | 14,720 km | 221–442 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 16,093 km | 241–483 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 17,310 km | 260–519 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 17,548 km | 263–526 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 18,571 km | 279–557 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 18,644 km | 280–559 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 18,666 km | 280–560 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 18,975 km | 285–569 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 19,498 km | 292–585 ms |
Distances are from Canterbury. 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 Canterbury
We host servers for companies throughout Canterbury and the rest of New Zealand. 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 2,102 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 Canterbury — FAQs
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