The Colony, United States
Hourly Game Server in The Colony
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 The Colony. 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.
The Colony has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Colony ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,162 km | 17–35 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,272 km | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,807 km | 27–54 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,919 km | 29–58 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,978 km | 30–59 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,196 km | 33–66 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,319 km | 35–70 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,673 km | 40–80 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 7,621 km | 114–229 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 7,880 km | 118–236 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,942 km | 119–238 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,138 km | 122–244 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 8,235 km | 124–247 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 8,552 km | 128–257 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,648 km | 145–289 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,173 km | 168–335 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,370 km | 156–311 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 13,029 km | 195–391 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 13,136 km | 197–394 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 13,801 km | 207–414 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 13,823 km | 207–415 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 14,114 km | 212–423 ms |
| Singapore | 15,613 km | 234–468 ms |
Distances are from The Colony. 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 The Colony
We host servers for companies throughout The Colony, TX 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.
Dallas is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
Hourly Game Server in The Colony — FAQs
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Other servers in The Colony
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.
Burstable Server hosting nearby
Other towns we host for in the region.