Retford, United Kingdom

Hourly Game Server in Retford

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
Retford and its closest data centre Retford joined by a link to the London data centre, 209 km away. Retford London United Kingdom
209 km from Retford
3–6 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Retford. 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.

Europe, Middle East & Africa coverage 8 live
Europe, Middle East & Africa data centre locations 8 locations across Europe, Middle East & Africa, with London marked as the closest to Retford. London Retford

Retford is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Retford ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 209 km 3–6 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 407 km 6–12 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 752 km 11–23 ms
Milan, Italy 1,139 km 17–34 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 1,342 km 20–40 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,450 km 22–43 ms
Bucharest, Romania 2,193 km 33–66 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 3,691 km 55–111 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 5,457 km 82–164 ms
Toronto, Canada 5,581 km 84–167 ms
Chicago, United States 6,212 km 93–186 ms
Atlanta, United States 6,655 km 100–200 ms
Miami, United States 7,041 km 106–211 ms
Dallas, United States 7,504 km 113–225 ms
Seattle, United States 7,507 km 113–225 ms
Santa Clara, United States 8,450 km 127–254 ms
Los Angeles, United States 8,581 km 129–257 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 6,751 km 101–203 ms
Mumbai, India 7,250 km 109–218 ms
Kolkata, India 7,969 km 120–239 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,415 km 141–282 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,561 km 143–287 ms
Singapore 10,859 km 163–326 ms
Sydney, Australia 16,936 km 254–508 ms

Distances are from Retford. 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 Retford

We host servers for companies throughout Retford, England and the rest of United Kingdom. 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.

London is our closest location at 209 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 Retford — 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 Retford players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. London is closest to Retford at 209 km, an estimated 3–6 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

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