Council Bluffs, United States

Hourly Game Server in Council Bluffs

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
Council Bluffs and its closest data centre Council Bluffs joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 688 km away. Council Bluffs Chicago Illinois, United States
688 km from Council Bluffs
10–21 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Council Bluffs. 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

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
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Chicago marked as the closest to Council Bluffs. Chicago Council Bluffs

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Council Bluffs ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 688 km 10–21 ms
Dallas, United States 947 km 14–28 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,310 km 20–39 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,375 km 21–41 ms
New York, United States 1,831 km 27–55 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,119 km 32–64 ms
Seattle, United States 2,204 km 33–66 ms
Miami, United States 2,247 km 34–67 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,278 km 34–68 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,894 km 103–207 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,129 km 107–214 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,304 km 110–219 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,344 km 110–220 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,490 km 112–225 ms
Milan, Italy 7,843 km 118–235 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,871 km 133–266 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,419 km 156–313 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 9,760 km 146–293 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,223 km 183–367 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,296 km 184–369 ms
Kolkata, India 12,904 km 194–387 ms
Mumbai, India 13,206 km 198–396 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,193 km 213–426 ms
Singapore 14,877 km 223–446 ms

Distances are from Council Bluffs. 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 Council Bluffs

We host servers for companies throughout Council Bluffs, IA 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.

Chicago is our closest location at 688 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 Council Bluffs — 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 Council Bluffs players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Chicago is closest to Council Bluffs at 688 km, an estimated 10–21 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Council Bluffs

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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