Taupo, New Zealand

Hourly Game Server in Taupo

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

2,285 km from Taupo

34–69 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Taupo. 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

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

Sydney Nearest 2,285 km · 34–69 ms Singapore 8,575 km · 129–257 ms Tokyo 9,076 km · 136–272 ms Hong Kong 9,353 km · 140–281 ms Los Angeles 10,540 km · 158–316 ms Santa Clara 10,566 km · 158–317 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Taupo ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia	2,285 km	34–69 ms
Singapore	8,575 km	129–257 ms
Tokyo, Japan	9,076 km	136–272 ms
Hong Kong, China	9,353 km	140–281 ms
Kolkata, India	11,364 km	170–341 ms
Mumbai, India	12,441 km	187–373 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,645 km	190–379 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States	10,540 km	158–316 ms
Santa Clara, United States	10,566 km	158–317 ms
Seattle, United States	11,363 km	170–341 ms
Dallas, United States	11,985 km	180–360 ms
Miami, United States	12,899 km	193–387 ms
Atlanta, United States	13,015 km	195–390 ms
Chicago, United States	13,204 km	198–396 ms
Toronto, Canada	13,896 km	208–417 ms
New York, United States	14,181 km	213–425 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel	16,458 km	247–494 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	17,243 km	259–517 ms
Bucharest, Romania	17,453 km	262–524 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	18,348 km	275–550 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	18,402 km	276–552 ms
London, United Kingdom	18,559 km	278–557 ms
Milan, Italy	18,699 km	280–561 ms
Madrid, Spain	19,821 km	297–595 ms

Distances are from Taupo. 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 Taupo

We host servers for companies throughout Taupo, Waikato and the rest of New Zealand. 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 2,285 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 Taupo — 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 Taupo players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Sydney is closest to Taupo at 2,285 km, an estimated 34–69 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Taupo

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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Burstable Server hosting nearby

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