Acton, United Kingdom
Hourly VPS in Acton
Booked by the hour for work with a definite end, and taken down when it finishes.
- ✓ Booked for a window, not subscribed
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Taken down when the job ends
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Acton. 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.
Pay for the window, not the month
Most hosting assumes the work never stops. A lot of work does: it starts, it finishes, and paying for the remaining twenty-nine days is simply waste.
Booked, not subscribed
You name a start and an end. The server is built for that window and comes down at the end of it, and the bill stops with it.
Sized for the job
An hour on a large machine often costs less than a day on a small one. Book the size that finishes the work rather than the size that fits a monthly budget.
Not for anything sustained
This class throttles under continuous load. If the thing you are running has users on it, buy General purpose or Dedicated instead — we would rather say so here 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.
Acton has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Acton ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 368 km | 6–11 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 648 km | 10–19 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 967 km | 15–29 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 1,261 km | 19–38 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 1,440 km | 22–43 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 2,101 km | 32–63 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 3,566 km | 53–107 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 5,560 km | 83–167 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 5,703 km | 86–171 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 6,344 km | 95–190 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 6,760 km | 101–203 ms |
| Miami, United States | 7,117 km | 107–214 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 7,632 km | 114–229 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,693 km | 115–231 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 8,626 km | 129–259 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 8,748 km | 131–262 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,740 km | 101–202 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,202 km | 108–216 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,972 km | 120–239 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,564 km | 143–287 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 9,632 km | 144–289 ms |
| Singapore | 10,858 km | 163–326 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 17,003 km | 255–510 ms |
Distances are from Acton. 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 servers for Acton
We host servers for companies throughout Acton, England and the rest of United Kingdom. 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.
London is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
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