Columbus, United States

Hourly Game Server in Columbus

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

444 km from Columbus

7–13 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Columbus. 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

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

Chicago Nearest 444 km · 7–13 ms Toronto 508 km · 8–15 ms Atlanta 702 km · 11–21 ms New York 766 km · 11–23 ms Dallas 1,469 km · 22–44 ms Miami 1,600 km · 24–48 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Columbus ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States	444 km	7–13 ms
Toronto, Canada	508 km	8–15 ms
Atlanta, United States	702 km	11–21 ms
New York, United States	766 km	11–23 ms
Dallas, United States	1,469 km	22–44 ms
Miami, United States	1,600 km	24–48 ms
Los Angeles, United States	3,176 km	48–95 ms
Seattle, United States	3,232 km	48–97 ms
Santa Clara, United States	3,368 km	51–101 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	6,206 km	93–186 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	6,480 km	97–194 ms
Madrid, Spain	6,488 km	97–195 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	6,830 km	102–205 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	6,837 km	103–205 ms
Milan, Italy	7,124 km	107–214 ms
Bucharest, Romania	8,263 km	124–248 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	9,762 km	146–293 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	10,539 km	158–316 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,133 km	182–364 ms
Hong Kong, China	12,864 km	193–386 ms
Mumbai, India	12,990 km	195–390 ms
Kolkata, India	13,004 km	195–390 ms
Sydney, Australia	15,222 km	228–457 ms
Singapore	15,369 km	231–461 ms

Distances are from Columbus. 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 Columbus

We host servers for companies across Columbus — from Downtown, the Short North, German Village, Easton and Dublin — 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 444 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 Columbus — 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 Columbus players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Chicago is closest to Columbus at 444 km, an estimated 7–13 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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