San Marcos, United States

Hourly Game Server in San Marcos

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
San Marcos and its closest data centre San Marcos joined by a link to the Los Angeles data centre, 142 km away. San Marcos Los Angeles California, United States
142 km from San Marcos
2–4 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from San Marcos. 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.

Americas coverage 9 live
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Los Angeles marked as the closest to San Marcos. Los Angeles San Marcos

San Marcos is closest to Los Angeles. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from San Marcos ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States 142 km 2–4 ms
Santa Clara, United States 639 km 10–19 ms
Seattle, United States 1,666 km 25–50 ms
Dallas, United States 1,898 km 28–57 ms
Chicago, United States 2,764 km 41–83 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,029 km 45–91 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,459 km 52–104 ms
Miami, United States 3,653 km 55–110 ms
New York, United States 3,887 km 58–117 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 8,783 km 132–263 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,939 km 134–268 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8,974 km 135–269 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 9,337 km 140–280 ms
Madrid, Spain 9,365 km 140–281 ms
Milan, Italy 9,742 km 146–292 ms
Bucharest, Romania 10,623 km 159–319 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 12,188 km 183–366 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 8,960 km 134–269 ms
Hong Kong, China 11,791 km 177–354 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,112 km 182–363 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,987 km 195–390 ms
Kolkata, India 13,254 km 199–398 ms
Mumbai, India 14,111 km 212–423 ms
Singapore 14,260 km 214–428 ms

Distances are from San Marcos. 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 Marcos

We host servers for companies throughout San Marcos, 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.

Los Angeles is our closest location at 142 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 Marcos — 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 San Marcos players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Los Angeles is closest to San Marcos at 142 km, an estimated 2–4 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in San Marcos

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