Potomac, United States
Hourly VPS in Potomac
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 Potomac. 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.
Potomac is closest to New York. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Potomac ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| New York, United States | 206 miles | 5–10 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 340 miles | 8–16 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 540 miles | 13–26 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 582 miles | 14–28 ms |
| Miami, United States | 932 miles | 23–45 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,175 miles | 28–57 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,284 miles | 55–110 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,310 miles | 56–112 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,408 miles | 58–116 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,667 miles | 89–177 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,788 miles | 91–183 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,848 miles | 93–186 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,059 miles | 98–196 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,122 miles | 100–199 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,223 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,958 miles | 120–239 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,870 miles | 142–283 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,766 miles | 163–327 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,490 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,981 miles | 193–385 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,080 miles | 195–390 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,135 miles | 196–393 ms |
| Singapore | 9,647 miles | 233–466 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,754 miles | 235–471 ms |
Distances are from Potomac. 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 Potomac
We host servers for companies throughout Potomac, MD 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.
New York is our closest location at 206 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.
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