The Gap, Australia

Hourly Game Server in The Gap

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

733 km from The Gap

11–22 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from The Gap. 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

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

Sydney Nearest 733 km · 11–22 ms Singapore 6,145 km · 92–184 ms Hong Kong 6,926 km · 104–208 ms Tokyo 7,156 km · 107–215 ms Kolkata 8,887 km · 133–267 ms Mumbai 10,045 km · 151–301 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from The Gap ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia	733 km	11–22 ms
Singapore	6,145 km	92–184 ms
Hong Kong, China	6,926 km	104–208 ms
Tokyo, Japan	7,156 km	107–215 ms
Kolkata, India	8,887 km	133–267 ms
Mumbai, India	10,045 km	151–301 ms
Delhi NCR, India	10,170 km	153–305 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States	11,417 km	171–343 ms
Los Angeles, United States	11,571 km	174–347 ms
Seattle, United States	11,851 km	178–356 ms
Dallas, United States	13,402 km	201–402 ms
Chicago, United States	14,369 km	216–431 ms
Atlanta, United States	14,552 km	218–437 ms
Miami, United States	14,770 km	222–443 ms
Toronto, Canada	15,043 km	226–451 ms
New York, United States	15,506 km	233–465 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel	14,104 km	212–423 ms
Bucharest, Romania	14,971 km	225–449 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	15,090 km	226–453 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	16,083 km	241–483 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	16,185 km	243–486 ms
Milan, Italy	16,251 km	244–488 ms
London, United Kingdom	16,519 km	248–496 ms
Madrid, Spain	17,435 km	262–523 ms

Distances are from The Gap. 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 Gap

We host servers for companies throughout The Gap, QLD 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 733 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 The Gap — 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 The Gap players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Sydney is closest to The Gap at 733 km, an estimated 11–22 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in The Gap

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

Basic Ecommerce Chat Software IT & SaaS Software Dedicated Server Gaming Workstation RDP All The Gap hosting →

Burstable Server hosting nearby

Other towns we host for in the region.

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