Novato, United States
Hourly Game Server in Novato
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 Novato. 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.
Novato is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Novato ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 100 km | 1–3 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 595 km | 9–18 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,056 km | 16–32 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,400 km | 36–72 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,985 km | 45–90 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,447 km | 52–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,641 km | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 4,129 km | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,187 km | 63–126 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,243 km | 124–247 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 11,063 km | 166–332 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 11,955 km | 179–359 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,319 km | 185–370 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,535 km | 188–376 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,455 km | 202–404 ms |
| Singapore | 13,552 km | 203–407 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,591 km | 129–258 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 8,592 km | 129–258 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 8,748 km | 131–262 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 9,108 km | 137–273 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 9,299 km | 139–279 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 9,546 km | 143–286 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 10,314 km | 155–309 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,865 km | 178–356 ms |
Distances are from Novato. 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 Novato
We host servers for companies throughout Novato, CA 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.
Santa Clara is our closest location at 100 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 Novato — FAQs
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