Decatur, United States

Hourly Game Server in Decatur

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
Decatur and its closest data centre Decatur joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 253 km away. Decatur Chicago Illinois, United States
253 km from Decatur
4–8 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Decatur. 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 Decatur. Chicago Decatur

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Decatur ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 253 km 4–8 ms
Atlanta, United States 790 km 12–24 ms
Toronto, Canada 899 km 13–27 ms
Dallas, United States 1,053 km 16–32 ms
New York, United States 1,270 km 19–38 ms
Miami, United States 1,765 km 26–53 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,668 km 40–80 ms
Seattle, United States 2,793 km 42–84 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,865 km 43–86 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,589 km 99–198 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,848 km 103–205 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,935 km 104–208 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,131 km 107–214 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,203 km 108–216 ms
Milan, Italy 7,522 km 113–226 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,619 km 129–259 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,141 km 152–304 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,255 km 154–308 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,282 km 184–368 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,699 km 190–381 ms
Kolkata, India 13,070 km 196–392 ms
Mumbai, India 13,198 km 198–396 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,721 km 221–442 ms
Singapore 15,254 km 229–458 ms

Distances are from Decatur. 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 Decatur

We host servers for companies throughout Decatur, IL 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 253 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 Decatur — 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 Decatur players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Chicago is closest to Decatur at 253 km, an estimated 4–8 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

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