Normal, United States

Hourly VPS in Normal

Booked by the hour for work with a definite end, and taken down when it finishes.

Book your server → From $0.1820 / hour

Booked for a window, not subscribed
Same price in all 24 locations
Taken down when the job ends

Closest location live

190 km from Normal

3–6 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Normal. 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

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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.

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.

Americas coverage 9 live

Normal is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Chicago Nearest 190 km · 3–6 ms Atlanta 855 km · 13–26 ms Toronto 866 km · 13–26 ms Dallas 1,106 km · 17–33 ms New York 1,264 km · 19–38 ms Miami 1,831 km · 27–55 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Normal ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States	190 km	3–6 ms
Atlanta, United States	855 km	13–26 ms
Toronto, Canada	866 km	13–26 ms
Dallas, United States	1,106 km	17–33 ms
New York, United States	1,264 km	19–38 ms
Miami, United States	1,831 km	27–55 ms
Los Angeles, United States	2,672 km	40–80 ms
Seattle, United States	2,754 km	41–83 ms
Santa Clara, United States	2,856 km	43–86 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	6,540 km	98–196 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	6,796 km	102–204 ms
Madrid, Spain	6,899 km	103–207 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	7,069 km	106–212 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	7,152 km	107–215 ms
Milan, Italy	7,474 km	112–224 ms
Bucharest, Romania	8,565 km	128–257 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	10,090 km	151–303 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	10,194 km	153–306 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,209 km	183–366 ms
Hong Kong, China	12,629 km	189–379 ms
Kolkata, India	12,995 km	195–390 ms
Mumbai, India	13,128 km	197–394 ms
Sydney, Australia	14,735 km	221–442 ms
Singapore	15,182 km	228–455 ms

Distances are from Normal. 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 Normal

We host servers for companies throughout Normal, IL 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.

Chicago is our closest location at 190 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 VPS in Normal — FAQs

How is it billed?

By the hour, for the window you book — from $0.1820 per hour for 4 GB RAM · 2 Cores · 80 GB. This is the only class our data centres bill hourly, and it is the only term it can be bought on; there is no monthly option for it.

What is it good for?

Work with a definite end. A migration, a large scrape, a batch job, a load test, a render — anything you would otherwise pay a month for and use for an afternoon.

What is it bad for?

Anything sustained. Burstable trades peak speed for cheap idle time and throttles under continuous load, so it is the wrong choice for a storefront, a game server or a messaging service. Those want General purpose or Dedicated.

How fast will it feel from Normal?

An estimated 3–6 ms to Chicago at 190 km, the same as any other class — the billing term does not change the distance.

What happens when the window ends?

The server comes down and billing stops. Tell us the start and end when you book it, and take a copy of anything you need to keep before the end of the window.

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Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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