Cincinnati, United States

Hourly Game Server in Cincinnati

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

404 km from Cincinnati

6–12 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Cincinnati. 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

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

Chicago Nearest 404 km · 6–12 ms Atlanta 598 km · 9–18 ms Toronto 660 km · 10–20 ms New York 913 km · 14–27 ms Dallas 1,310 km · 20–39 ms Miami 1,540 km · 23–46 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Cincinnati ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States	404 km	6–12 ms
Atlanta, United States	598 km	9–18 ms
Toronto, Canada	660 km	10–20 ms
New York, United States	913 km	14–27 ms
Dallas, United States	1,310 km	20–39 ms
Miami, United States	1,540 km	23–46 ms
Los Angeles, United States	3,046 km	46–91 ms
Seattle, United States	3,164 km	47–95 ms
Santa Clara, United States	3,253 km	49–98 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	6,365 km	95–191 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	6,638 km	100–199 ms
Madrid, Spain	6,646 km	100–199 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	6,987 km	105–210 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	6,988 km	105–210 ms
Milan, Italy	7,283 km	109–219 ms
Bucharest, Romania	8,420 km	126–253 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	9,921 km	149–298 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	10,543 km	158–316 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,261 km	184–368 ms
Hong Kong, China	12,911 km	194–387 ms
Kolkata, India	13,114 km	197–393 ms
Mumbai, India	13,129 km	197–394 ms
Sydney, Australia	15,078 km	226–452 ms
Singapore	15,434 km	232–463 ms

Distances are from Cincinnati. 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 Cincinnati

We host servers for companies across Cincinnati — from Downtown, Over-the-Rhine, Hyde Park, Clifton and Oakley — 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 our closest location at 404 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 Cincinnati — 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 Cincinnati players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Chicago is closest to Cincinnati at 404 km, an estimated 6–12 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

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Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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