Boulder, United States

Hourly VPS in Boulder

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
Boulder and its closest data centre Boulder joined by a link to the Dallas data centre, 687 miles away. Boulder Dallas Texas, United States
687 miles from Boulder
17–33 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Boulder. 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 Dallas marked as the closest to Boulder. Dallas Boulder

Boulder is closest to Dallas. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Boulder ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Dallas, United States 687 miles 17–33 ms
Los Angeles, United States 824 miles 20–40 ms
Santa Clara, United States 917 miles 22–44 ms
Chicago, United States 928 miles 22–45 ms
Seattle, United States 996 miles 24–48 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,229 miles 30–59 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,350 miles 33–65 ms
New York, United States 1,638 miles 40–79 ms
Miami, United States 1,747 miles 42–84 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 4,681 miles 113–226 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4,812 miles 116–232 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 4,852 miles 117–234 ms
Madrid, Spain 5,012 miles 121–242 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 5,037 miles 122–243 ms
Milan, Italy 5,276 miles 127–255 ms
Bucharest, Romania 5,867 miles 142–283 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 6,838 miles 165–330 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 5,777 miles 139–279 ms
Hong Kong, China 7,437 miles 180–359 ms
Delhi NCR, India 7,697 miles 186–372 ms
Kolkata, India 8,024 miles 194–387 ms
Sydney, Australia 8,323 miles 201–402 ms
Mumbai, India 8,352 miles 202–403 ms
Singapore 9,040 miles 218–436 ms

Distances are from Boulder. 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 Boulder

We host servers for companies throughout Boulder, CO 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 our closest location at 687 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 Boulder — 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 Boulder?
An estimated 17–33 ms to Dallas at 687 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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