Crystal Lake, United States

Hourly VPS in Crystal Lake

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
Crystal Lake and its closest data centre Crystal Lake joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 43 miles away. Crystal Lake Chicago Illinois, United States
43 miles from Crystal Lake
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Crystal Lake. 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 Chicago marked as the closest to Crystal Lake. Chicago Crystal Lake

Crystal Lake is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Crystal Lake ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 43 miles 1–2 ms
Toronto, Canada 462 miles 11–22 ms
Atlanta, United States 624 miles 15–30 ms
New York, United States 747 miles 18–36 ms
Dallas, United States 801 miles 19–39 ms
Miami, United States 1,229 miles 30–59 ms
Seattle, United States 1,690 miles 41–82 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,711 miles 41–83 ms
Santa Clara, United States 1,805 miles 44–87 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 3,957 miles 96–191 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4,114 miles 99–199 ms
Madrid, Spain 4,197 miles 101–203 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 4,274 miles 103–206 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 4,335 miles 105–209 ms
Milan, Italy 4,540 miles 110–219 ms
Bucharest, Romania 5,210 miles 126–252 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 6,161 miles 149–297 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 6,260 miles 151–302 ms
Delhi NCR, India 7,463 miles 180–360 ms
Hong Kong, China 7,751 miles 187–374 ms
Kolkata, India 7,954 miles 192–384 ms
Mumbai, India 8,034 miles 194–388 ms
Sydney, Australia 9,213 miles 222–445 ms
Singapore 9,331 miles 225–451 ms

Distances are from Crystal Lake. 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 Crystal Lake

We host servers for companies throughout Crystal Lake, IL 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.

Chicago 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 Crystal Lake — 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 Crystal Lake?
An estimated 1–2 ms to Chicago 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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