Iowa City, United States
Hourly Game Server in Iowa City
Spin up a server for a session or a weekend event, and stop paying when everyone logs off.
- ✓ Booked by the hour
- ✓ Any TCP or UDP port
- ✓ Taken down when you finish
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Iowa City. 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
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, billed monthly, for anything with real users on it.
$83.90USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
Cores nobody else touches, billed monthly, for sustained work that must not slow down.
$94.90USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourBook 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.
Iowa City is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Iowa City ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 324 km | 5–10 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,017 km | 15–31 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,080 km | 16–32 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,092 km | 16–33 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,468 km | 22–44 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,051 km | 31–62 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,481 km | 37–74 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,507 km | 38–75 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,640 km | 40–79 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,606 km | 99–198 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,852 km | 103–206 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,016 km | 105–210 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 7,077 km | 106–212 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 7,210 km | 108–216 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,549 km | 113–226 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,608 km | 129–258 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 10,146 km | 152–304 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,961 km | 149–299 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,127 km | 182–364 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,424 km | 186–373 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,873 km | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,073 km | 196–392 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,554 km | 218–437 ms |
| Singapore | 14,988 km | 225–450 ms |
Distances are from Iowa City. 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 Iowa City
We host servers for companies throughout Iowa City, 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 324 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 Iowa City — FAQs
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