South Lake Tahoe, United States

Hourly Game Server in South Lake Tahoe

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
South Lake Tahoe and its closest data centre South Lake Tahoe joined by a link to the Santa Clara data centre, 246 km away. South Lake Tahoe Santa Clara California, United States
246 km from South Lake Tahoe
4–7 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from South Lake Tahoe. 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 Santa Clara marked as the closest to South Lake Tahoe. Santa Clara South Lake Tahoe

South Lake Tahoe is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from South Lake Tahoe ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States 246 km 4–7 ms
Los Angeles, United States 565 km 8–17 ms
Seattle, United States 983 km 15–29 ms
Dallas, United States 2,192 km 33–66 ms
Chicago, United States 2,743 km 41–82 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,219 km 48–97 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,398 km 51–102 ms
New York, United States 3,886 km 58–117 ms
Miami, United States 3,977 km 60–119 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 8,379 km 126–251 ms
Hong Kong, China 11,178 km 168–335 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,196 km 183–366 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,299 km 184–369 ms
Kolkata, India 12,566 km 188–377 ms
Mumbai, India 13,427 km 201–403 ms
Singapore 13,691 km 205–411 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 8,392 km 126–252 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,428 km 126–253 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8,555 km 128–257 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 8,916 km 134–267 ms
Madrid, Spain 9,079 km 136–272 ms
Milan, Italy 9,348 km 140–280 ms
Bucharest, Romania 10,142 km 152–304 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 11,699 km 175–351 ms

Distances are from South Lake Tahoe. 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 South Lake Tahoe

We host servers for companies throughout South Lake Tahoe, 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.

Santa Clara is our closest location at 246 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 South Lake Tahoe — 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 South Lake Tahoe players?
Wherever your players are, not where you are. Santa Clara is closest to South Lake Tahoe at 246 km, an estimated 4–7 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in South Lake Tahoe

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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