Punchbowl, Australia
Hourly VPS in Punchbowl
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 Punchbowl. 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.
Punchbowl has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Punchbowl ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Sydney, Australia | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Singapore | 3,913 miles | 94–189 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 4,581 miles | 111–221 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,865 miles | 117–235 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 5,673 miles | 137–274 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 6,304 miles | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,462 miles | 156–312 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 7,442 miles | 180–359 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 7,512 miles | 181–363 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 7,758 miles | 187–375 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 8,596 miles | 208–415 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 9,253 miles | 223–447 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 9,296 miles | 224–449 ms |
| Miami, United States | 9,346 miles | 226–451 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 9,683 miles | 234–468 ms |
| New York, United States | 9,945 miles | 240–480 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 8,804 miles | 213–425 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,459 miles | 228–457 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 9,689 miles | 234–468 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 10,238 miles | 247–494 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 10,283 miles | 248–496 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 10,338 miles | 250–499 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 10,557 miles | 255–510 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 10,982 miles | 265–530 ms |
Distances are from Punchbowl. 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 Punchbowl
We host servers for companies throughout Punchbowl, NSW and the rest of Australia. 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.
Sydney is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
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Other servers in Punchbowl
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.