Los Altos, United States
Hourly VPS in Los Altos
Booked by the hour for work with a definite end, and taken down when it finishes.
- ✓ Booked for a window, not subscribed
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Taken down when the job ends
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Los Altos. 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
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, billed monthly, for anything with real users on it.
$83.90USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
High performance
Cores nobody else touches, billed monthly, for sustained work that must not slow down.
$94.90USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourBook 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.
Los Altos has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Los Altos ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 316 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 706 miles | 17–34 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,462 miles | 35–71 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,848 miles | 45–89 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,121 miles | 51–102 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,260 miles | 55–109 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,559 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,572 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,170 miles | 125–250 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,925 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,425 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,710 miles | 186–372 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,844 miles | 189–379 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,415 miles | 203–406 ms |
| Singapore | 8,468 miles | 204–409 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,368 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,377 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,467 miles | 132–264 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,691 miles | 137–275 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,799 miles | 140–280 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,961 miles | 144–288 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,445 miles | 156–311 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,411 miles | 179–358 ms |
Distances are from Los Altos. 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 Los Altos
We host servers for companies throughout Los Altos, CA 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.
Santa Clara is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
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