Elgin, United Kingdom

Hourly VPS in Elgin

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
Elgin and its closest data centre Elgin joined by a link to the London data centre, 443 miles away. Elgin London United Kingdom
443 miles from Elgin
11–21 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Elgin. 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.

Europe, Middle East & Africa coverage 8 live
Europe, Middle East & Africa data centre locations 8 locations across Europe, Middle East & Africa, with London marked as the closest to Elgin. London Elgin

Elgin is closest to London. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Elgin ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 443 miles 11–21 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 489 miles 12–24 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 712 miles 17–34 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 778 miles 19–38 ms
Milan, Italy 995 miles 24–48 ms
Madrid, Spain 1,191 miles 29–57 ms
Bucharest, Romania 1,551 miles 37–75 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 2,511 miles 61–121 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 3,230 miles 78–156 ms
Toronto, Canada 3,278 miles 79–158 ms
Chicago, United States 3,654 miles 88–176 ms
Atlanta, United States 3,968 miles 96–192 ms
Miami, United States 4,252 miles 103–205 ms
Seattle, United States 4,375 miles 106–211 ms
Dallas, United States 4,459 miles 108–215 ms
Santa Clara, United States 4,976 miles 120–240 ms
Los Angeles, United States 5,069 miles 122–245 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Delhi NCR, India 4,239 miles 102–205 ms
Mumbai, India 4,603 miles 111–222 ms
Kolkata, India 4,972 miles 120–240 ms
Tokyo, Japan 5,640 miles 136–272 ms
Hong Kong, China 5,852 miles 141–283 ms
Singapore 6,765 miles 163–327 ms
Sydney, Australia 10,411 miles 251–503 ms

Distances are from Elgin. 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 Elgin

We host servers for companies throughout Elgin, Scotland and the rest of United Kingdom. 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.

London is our closest location at 443 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 Elgin — 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 Elgin?
An estimated 11–21 ms to London at 443 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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