Palo Alto, United States

Hourly VPS in Palo Alto

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

1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Palo Alto. 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

Palo Alto has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.

Santa Clara Nearest Same city · 1–2 ms Los Angeles 516 km · 8–15 ms Seattle 1,130 km · 17–34 ms Dallas 2,356 km · 35–71 ms Chicago 2,975 km · 45–89 ms Atlanta 3,415 km · 51–102 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Palo Alto ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States	Same city	1–2 ms
Los Angeles, United States	516 km	8–15 ms
Seattle, United States	1,130 km	17–34 ms
Dallas, United States	2,356 km	35–71 ms
Chicago, United States	2,975 km	45–89 ms
Atlanta, United States	3,415 km	51–102 ms
Toronto, Canada	3,637 km	55–109 ms
New York, United States	4,119 km	62–124 ms
Miami, United States	4,142 km	62–124 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	8,315 km	125–249 ms
Hong Kong, China	11,138 km	167–334 ms
Sydney, Australia	11,950 km	179–359 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,401 km	186–372 ms
Kolkata, India	12,617 km	189–379 ms
Mumbai, India	13,537 km	203–406 ms
Singapore	13,622 km	204–409 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	8,634 km	130–259 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	8,649 km	130–259 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	8,794 km	132–264 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	9,154 km	137–275 ms
Madrid, Spain	9,329 km	140–280 ms
Milan, Italy	9,589 km	144–288 ms
Bucharest, Romania	10,368 km	156–311 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	11,922 km	179–358 ms

Distances are from Palo Alto. 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 Palo Alto

We host servers for companies throughout Palo Alto, CA 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.

Santa Clara is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.

Hourly VPS in Palo Alto — 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.

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.

Other servers in Palo Alto

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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