Essex, United States

Hourly Game Server in Essex

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
Essex and its closest data centre Essex joined by a link to the New York data centre, 262 km away. Essex New York New York, United States
262 km from Essex
4–8 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Essex. 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 New York marked as the closest to Essex. New York Essex

Essex is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Essex ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 262 km 4–8 ms
Toronto, Canada 540 km 8–16 ms
Atlanta, United States 939 km 14–28 ms
Chicago, United States 983 km 15–30 ms
Miami, United States 1,546 km 23–46 ms
Dallas, United States 1,961 km 29–59 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,737 km 56–112 ms
Seattle, United States 3,756 km 56–113 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,931 km 59–118 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 5,832 km 87–175 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,025 km 90–181 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,124 km 92–184 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 6,464 km 97–194 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 6,571 km 99–197 ms
Milan, Italy 6,726 km 101–202 ms
Bucharest, Romania 7,911 km 119–237 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 9,377 km 141–281 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,891 km 163–327 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,000 km 180–360 ms
Mumbai, India 12,784 km 192–384 ms
Kolkata, India 12,956 km 194–389 ms
Hong Kong, China 13,073 km 196–392 ms
Singapore 15,494 km 232–465 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,764 km 236–473 ms

Distances are from Essex. 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 Essex

We host servers for companies throughout Essex, MD 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.

New York is our closest location at 262 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 Essex — 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 Essex players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. New York is closest to Essex at 262 km, an estimated 4–8 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

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