Chicago, United States
Hourly Game Server in Chicago
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 Chicago. 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.
Chicago has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Chicago ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 704 km | 11–21 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 945 km | 14–28 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,146 km | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,292 km | 19–39 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,915 km | 29–57 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,789 km | 42–84 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,802 km | 42–84 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,961 km | 44–89 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,356 km | 95–191 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,612 km | 99–198 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,728 km | 101–202 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,884 km | 103–207 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,968 km | 105–209 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,293 km | 109–219 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,380 km | 126–251 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,906 km | 149–297 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,143 km | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,039 km | 181–361 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,535 km | 188–376 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,840 km | 193–385 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,950 km | 194–389 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,874 km | 223–446 ms |
| Singapore | 15,074 km | 226–452 ms |
Distances are from Chicago. 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 Chicago
We host servers for companies across Chicago — from the Loop, River North, Lincoln Park, Wicker Park and the West Loop — 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.
Chicago is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
Hourly Game Server in Chicago — FAQs
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