Ancaster, Canada

Hourly VPS in Ancaster

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
Ancaster and its closest data centre Ancaster joined by a link to the Toronto data centre, 43 miles away. Ancaster Toronto Ontario, Canada
43 miles from Ancaster
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Ancaster. 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 Toronto marked as the closest to Ancaster. Toronto Ancaster

Ancaster is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Ancaster ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Toronto, Canada 43 miles 1–2 ms
New York, United States 353 miles 9–17 ms
Chicago, United States 400 miles 10–19 ms
Atlanta, United States 696 miles 17–34 ms
Dallas, United States 1,162 miles 28–56 ms
Miami, United States 1,206 miles 29–58 ms
Seattle, United States 2,050 miles 49–99 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,139 miles 52–103 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,225 miles 54–107 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 3,592 miles 87–173 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3,760 miles 91–182 ms
Madrid, Spain 3,791 miles 92–183 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 3,975 miles 96–192 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 3,978 miles 96–192 ms
Milan, Italy 4,166 miles 101–201 ms
Bucharest, Romania 4,866 miles 117–235 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 5,802 miles 140–280 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 6,442 miles 156–311 ms
Delhi NCR, India 7,275 miles 176–351 ms
Mumbai, India 7,801 miles 188–377 ms
Hong Kong, China 7,820 miles 189–378 ms
Kolkata, India 7,831 miles 189–378 ms
Singapore 9,348 miles 226–451 ms
Sydney, Australia 9,641 miles 233–465 ms

Distances are from Ancaster. 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 Ancaster

We host servers for companies throughout Ancaster, ON and the rest of Canada. 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.

Toronto is our closest location at 43 miles, 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 Ancaster — 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 Ancaster?
An estimated 1–2 ms to Toronto at 43 miles, 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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