Runcorn, United Kingdom

Hourly Game Server in Runcorn

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
Runcorn and its closest data centre Runcorn joined by a link to the London data centre, 270 km away. Runcorn London United Kingdom
270 km from Runcorn
4–8 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Runcorn. 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 Runcorn. London Runcorn

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

Show all 24 locations and distances from Runcorn ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 270 km 4–8 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 524 km 8–16 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 863 km 13–26 ms
Milan, Italy 1,226 km 18–37 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 1,436 km 22–43 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,439 km 22–43 ms
Bucharest, Romania 2,309 km 35–69 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 3,800 km 57–114 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 5,342 km 80–160 ms
Toronto, Canada 5,470 km 82–164 ms
Chicago, United States 6,104 km 92–183 ms
Atlanta, United States 6,541 km 98–196 ms
Miami, United States 6,923 km 104–208 ms
Dallas, United States 7,395 km 111–222 ms
Seattle, United States 7,430 km 111–223 ms
Santa Clara, United States 8,365 km 125–251 ms
Los Angeles, United States 8,489 km 127–255 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 6,867 km 103–206 ms
Mumbai, India 7,369 km 111–221 ms
Kolkata, India 8,084 km 121–243 ms
Tokyo, Japan 9,474 km 142–284 ms
Hong Kong, China 9,658 km 145–290 ms
Singapore 10,974 km 165–329 ms
Sydney, Australia 17,032 km 255–511 ms

Distances are from Runcorn. 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 Runcorn

We host servers for companies throughout Runcorn, 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 270 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 Runcorn — 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 Runcorn players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. London is closest to Runcorn at 270 km, an estimated 4–8 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Runcorn

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