Preston, Australia
Hourly Game Server in Preston
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 Preston. 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.
Preston is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Preston ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 705 km | 11–21 ms |
| Singapore | 6,063 km | 91–182 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,417 km | 111–223 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,183 km | 123–245 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,943 km | 134–268 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 9,822 km | 147–295 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 10,186 km | 153–306 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 12,662 km | 190–380 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 12,767 km | 192–383 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 13,174 km | 198–395 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 14,477 km | 217–434 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 15,566 km | 233–467 ms |
| Miami, United States | 15,585 km | 234–468 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 15,586 km | 234–468 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 16,261 km | 244–488 ms |
| New York, United States | 16,666 km | 250–500 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 13,771 km | 207–413 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 14,962 km | 224–449 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 15,597 km | 234–468 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 16,293 km | 244–489 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 16,321 km | 245–490 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 16,545 km | 248–496 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 16,903 km | 254–507 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 17,313 km | 260–519 ms |
Distances are from Preston. 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 Preston
We host servers for companies throughout Preston, VIC 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 705 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.
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