Santa Cruz, United States

Hourly VPS in Santa Cruz

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
Santa Cruz and its closest data centre Santa Cruz joined by a link to the Santa Clara data centre, 43 km away. Santa Cruz Santa Clara California, United States
43 km from Santa Cruz
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Santa Cruz. 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

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
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Santa Clara marked as the closest to Santa Cruz. Santa Clara Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Santa Cruz ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States 43 km 1–2 ms
Los Angeles, United States 472 km 7–14 ms
Seattle, United States 1,182 km 18–35 ms
Dallas, United States 2,341 km 35–70 ms
Chicago, United States 2,984 km 45–90 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,410 km 51–102 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,650 km 55–109 ms
Miami, United States 4,127 km 62–124 ms
New York, United States 4,128 km 62–124 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 8,352 km 125–251 ms
Hong Kong, China 11,178 km 168–335 ms
Sydney, Australia 11,933 km 179–358 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,454 km 187–374 ms
Kolkata, India 12,667 km 190–380 ms
Mumbai, India 13,589 km 204–408 ms
Singapore 13,658 km 205–410 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 8,673 km 130–260 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 8,694 km 130–261 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 8,834 km 133–265 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 9,194 km 138–276 ms
Madrid, Spain 9,361 km 140–281 ms
Milan, Italy 9,628 km 144–289 ms
Bucharest, Romania 10,413 km 156–312 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 11,967 km 180–359 ms

Distances are from Santa Cruz. 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 Santa Cruz

We host servers for companies throughout Santa Cruz, 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 our closest location at 43 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 Santa Cruz — 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 Santa Cruz?
An estimated 1–2 ms to Santa Clara at 43 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.

Other servers in Santa Cruz

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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