Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Hourly VPS in Edinburgh
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 Edinburgh. 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.
Edinburgh is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Edinburgh ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 534 km | 8–16 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 660 km | 10–20 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 1,024 km | 15–31 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 1,314 km | 20–39 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 1,452 km | 22–44 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 1,728 km | 26–52 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 2,421 km | 36–73 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 3,948 km | 59–118 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 5,244 km | 79–157 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 5,341 km | 80–160 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 5,959 km | 89–179 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 6,437 km | 97–193 ms |
| Miami, United States | 6,864 km | 103–206 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,189 km | 108–216 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 7,253 km | 109–218 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 8,142 km | 122–244 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 8,282 km | 124–248 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,845 km | 103–205 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,399 km | 111–222 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,040 km | 121–241 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 9,236 km | 139–277 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 9,519 km | 143–286 ms |
| Singapore | 10,930 km | 164–328 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 16,876 km | 253–506 ms |
Distances are from Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh
We host servers for companies across Edinburgh — from the Old Town, New Town, Leith, Stockbridge and Morningside — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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 our closest location at 534 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.
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