Melbourne, United States

Hourly Game Server in Melbourne

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
Melbourne and its closest data centre Melbourne joined by a link to the Miami data centre, 261 km away. Melbourne Miami Florida, United States
261 km from Melbourne
4–8 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Melbourne. 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 Miami marked as the closest to Melbourne. Miami Melbourne

Melbourne is closest to Miami. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Melbourne ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Miami, United States 261 km 4–8 ms
Atlanta, United States 726 km 11–22 ms
New York, United States 1,528 km 23–46 ms
Dallas, United States 1,635 km 25–49 ms
Chicago, United States 1,660 km 25–50 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,735 km 26–52 ms
Los Angeles, United States 3,625 km 54–109 ms
Santa Clara, United States 3,969 km 60–119 ms
Seattle, United States 4,188 km 63–126 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,967 km 105–209 ms
Madrid, Spain 6,981 km 105–209 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,281 km 109–218 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,605 km 114–228 ms
Milan, Italy 7,813 km 117–234 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,818 km 117–235 ms
Bucharest, Romania 9,059 km 136–272 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,457 km 157–314 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 11,765 km 176–353 ms
Delhi NCR, India 13,298 km 199–399 ms
Mumbai, India 14,046 km 211–421 ms
Hong Kong, China 14,190 km 213–426 ms
Kolkata, India 14,259 km 214–428 ms
Sydney, Australia 15,085 km 226–453 ms
Singapore 16,708 km 251–501 ms

Distances are from Melbourne. 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 Melbourne

We host servers for companies throughout Melbourne, FL 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.

Miami is our closest location at 261 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 Melbourne — 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 Melbourne players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Miami is closest to Melbourne at 261 km, an estimated 4–8 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Melbourne

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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