South San Francisco, United States
Hourly Game Server in South San Francisco
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 South San Francisco. 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.
South San Francisco is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from South San Francisco ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 52 km | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 549 km | 8–16 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,107 km | 17–33 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 2,381 km | 36–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 2,989 km | 45–90 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 3,437 km | 52–103 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 3,648 km | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 4,133 km | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 4,167 km | 63–125 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 8,283 km | 124–248 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 11,105 km | 167–333 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 11,942 km | 179–358 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,371 km | 186–371 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,585 km | 189–378 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 13,507 km | 203–405 ms |
| Singapore | 13,590 km | 204–408 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 8,627 km | 129–259 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,634 km | 130–259 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 8,785 km | 132–264 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 9,145 km | 137–274 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 9,327 km | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 9,582 km | 144–287 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 10,355 km | 155–311 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,908 km | 179–357 ms |
Distances are from South San Francisco. 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 San Francisco
We host servers for companies throughout South San Francisco, 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 52 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 San Francisco — FAQs
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