The Colony, United States

Hourly VPS in The Colony

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 The Colony. 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

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

The Colony has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.

Dallas Nearest Same city · 1–2 ms Atlanta 1,162 km · 17–35 ms Chicago 1,272 km · 19–38 ms Miami 1,807 km · 27–54 ms Toronto 1,919 km · 29–58 ms Los Angeles 1,978 km · 30–59 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from The Colony ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Dallas, United States	Same city	1–2 ms
Atlanta, United States	1,162 km	17–35 ms
Chicago, United States	1,272 km	19–38 ms
Miami, United States	1,807 km	27–54 ms
Toronto, Canada	1,919 km	29–58 ms
Los Angeles, United States	1,978 km	30–59 ms
New York, United States	2,196 km	33–66 ms
Santa Clara, United States	2,319 km	35–70 ms
Seattle, United States	2,673 km	40–80 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	7,621 km	114–229 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	7,880 km	118–236 ms
Madrid, Spain	7,942 km	119–238 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	8,138 km	122–244 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	8,235 km	124–247 ms
Milan, Italy	8,552 km	128–257 ms
Bucharest, Romania	9,648 km	145–289 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	11,173 km	168–335 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	10,370 km	156–311 ms
Hong Kong, China	13,029 km	195–391 ms
Delhi NCR, India	13,136 km	197–394 ms
Kolkata, India	13,801 km	207–414 ms
Sydney, Australia	13,823 km	207–415 ms
Mumbai, India	14,114 km	212–423 ms
Singapore	15,613 km	234–468 ms

Distances are from The Colony. 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 The Colony

We host servers for companies throughout The Colony, TX 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.

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

Hourly VPS in The Colony — 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 The Colony

Same hardware, tuned for a different job.

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