Southbank, Australia

Hourly Game Server in Southbank

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

714 km from Southbank

11–21 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Southbank. 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

Booked hourly

Burstable

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 hour

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.

Asia-Pacific coverage 7 live

Southbank is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.

Sydney Nearest 714 km · 11–21 ms Singapore 6,064 km · 91–182 ms Hong Kong 7,422 km · 111–223 ms Tokyo 8,191 km · 123–246 ms Kolkata 8,944 km · 134–268 ms Mumbai 9,821 km · 147–295 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Southbank ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia	714 km	11–21 ms
Singapore	6,064 km	91–182 ms
Hong Kong, China	7,422 km	111–223 ms
Tokyo, Japan	8,191 km	123–246 ms
Kolkata, India	8,944 km	134–268 ms
Mumbai, India	9,821 km	147–295 ms
Delhi NCR, India	10,187 km	153–306 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States	12,670 km	190–380 ms
Los Angeles, United States	12,774 km	192–383 ms
Seattle, United States	13,183 km	198–395 ms
Dallas, United States	14,484 km	217–435 ms
Chicago, United States	15,573 km	234–467 ms
Miami, United States	15,589 km	234–468 ms
Atlanta, United States	15,592 km	234–468 ms
Toronto, Canada	16,268 km	244–488 ms
New York, United States	16,672 km	250–500 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel	13,769 km	207–413 ms
Bucharest, Romania	14,961 km	224–449 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	15,600 km	234–468 ms
Milan, Italy	16,293 km	244–489 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	16,322 km	245–490 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	16,547 km	248–496 ms
London, United Kingdom	16,904 km	254–507 ms
Madrid, Spain	17,311 km	260–519 ms

Distances are from Southbank. 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 Southbank

We host servers for companies throughout Southbank, VIC and the rest of Australia. 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.

Sydney is our closest location at 714 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 Southbank — 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 Southbank players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Sydney is closest to Southbank at 714 km, an estimated 11–21 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Southbank

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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