Mackay, Australia

Hourly Game Server in Mackay

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

1,438 km from Mackay

22–43 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Mackay. 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.

Asia-Pacific coverage 7 live

Mackay is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.

Sydney Nearest 1,438 km · 22–43 ms Singapore 5,512 km · 83–165 ms Hong Kong 6,131 km · 92–184 ms Tokyo 6,388 km · 96–192 ms Kolkata 8,174 km · 123–245 ms Mumbai 9,412 km · 141–282 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Mackay ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia	1,438 km	22–43 ms
Singapore	5,512 km	83–165 ms
Hong Kong, China	6,131 km	92–184 ms
Tokyo, Japan	6,388 km	96–192 ms
Kolkata, India	8,174 km	123–245 ms
Mumbai, India	9,412 km	141–282 ms
Delhi NCR, India	9,458 km	142–284 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States	11,325 km	170–340 ms
Los Angeles, United States	11,539 km	173–346 ms
Seattle, United States	11,621 km	174–349 ms
Dallas, United States	13,460 km	202–404 ms
Chicago, United States	14,283 km	214–428 ms
Atlanta, United States	14,617 km	219–439 ms
Toronto, Canada	14,915 km	224–447 ms
Miami, United States	14,993 km	225–450 ms
New York, United States	15,425 km	231–463 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel	13,461 km	202–404 ms
Bucharest, Romania	14,221 km	213–427 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	14,280 km	214–428 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	15,285 km	229–459 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	15,378 km	231–461 ms
Milan, Italy	15,475 km	232–464 ms
London, United Kingdom	15,710 km	236–471 ms
Madrid, Spain	16,663 km	250–500 ms

Distances are from Mackay. 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 Mackay

We host servers for companies throughout Mackay, QLD and the rest of Australia. 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.

Sydney is our closest location at 1,438 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 Mackay — 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 Mackay players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Sydney is closest to Mackay at 1,438 km, an estimated 22–43 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Mackay

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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Burstable Server hosting nearby

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