Timaru, New Zealand

Hourly Game Server in Timaru

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

2,079 km from Timaru

31–62 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Timaru. 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

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

Sydney Nearest 2,079 km · 31–62 ms Singapore 8,348 km · 125–250 ms Hong Kong 9,411 km · 141–282 ms Tokyo 9,457 km · 142–284 ms Kolkata 11,205 km · 168–336 ms Los Angeles 11,252 km · 169–338 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Timaru ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia	2,079 km	31–62 ms
Singapore	8,348 km	125–250 ms
Hong Kong, China	9,411 km	141–282 ms
Tokyo, Japan	9,457 km	142–284 ms
Kolkata, India	11,205 km	168–336 ms
Mumbai, India	12,130 km	182–364 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,467 km	187–374 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States	11,252 km	169–338 ms
Santa Clara, United States	11,295 km	169–339 ms
Seattle, United States	12,109 km	182–363 ms
Dallas, United States	12,624 km	189–379 ms
Miami, United States	13,409 km	201–402 ms
Atlanta, United States	13,612 km	204–408 ms
Chicago, United States	13,869 km	208–416 ms
Toronto, Canada	14,552 km	218–437 ms
New York, United States	14,798 km	222–444 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel	16,029 km	240–481 ms
Bucharest, Romania	17,268 km	259–518 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	17,566 km	263–527 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	18,559 km	278–557 ms
Milan, Italy	18,601 km	279–558 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	18,677 km	280–560 ms
London, United Kingdom	18,998 km	285–570 ms
Madrid, Spain	19,409 km	291–582 ms

Distances are from Timaru. 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 Timaru

We host servers for companies throughout Timaru, Canterbury 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 2,079 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 Timaru — 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 Timaru players?

Wherever your players are, not where you are. Sydney is closest to Timaru at 2,079 km, an estimated 31–62 ms — but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere. Every location costs the same.

Other servers in Timaru

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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