San Diego, United States
Hourly Game Server in San Diego
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 San Diego. 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.
San Diego is closest to Los Angeles. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from San Diego ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Los Angeles, United States | 179 km | 3–5 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 675 km | 10–20 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,712 km | 26–51 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,902 km | 29–57 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,787 km | 42–84 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,038 km | 46–91 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,483 km | 52–105 ms |
| Miami, United States | 3,651 km | 55–110 ms |
| New York, United States | 3,907 km | 59–117 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 8,822 km | 132–265 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,983 km | 135–269 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 9,014 km | 135–270 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 9,378 km | 141–281 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 9,399 km | 141–282 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 9,782 km | 147–293 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 10,666 km | 160–320 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 12,231 km | 183–367 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,988 km | 135–270 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 11,822 km | 177–355 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 12,090 km | 181–363 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 13,033 km | 195–391 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 13,296 km | 199–399 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 14,158 km | 212–425 ms |
| Singapore | 14,286 km | 214–429 ms |
Distances are from San Diego. 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 San Diego
We host servers for companies across San Diego — from Downtown / Gaslamp, La Jolla, North Park, Pacific Beach and Mission Valley — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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.
Los Angeles is our closest location at 179 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 San Diego — FAQs
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