Santa Cruz, United States

Hourly VPS in Santa Cruz

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
Santa Cruz and its closest data centre Santa Cruz joined by a link to the Santa Clara data centre, 27 miles away. Santa Cruz Santa Clara California, United States
27 miles from Santa Cruz
1–2 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Santa Cruz. 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 Santa Clara marked as the closest to Santa Cruz. Santa Clara Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Santa Cruz ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States 27 miles 1–2 ms
Los Angeles, United States 293 miles 7–14 ms
Seattle, United States 735 miles 18–35 ms
Dallas, United States 1,455 miles 35–70 ms
Chicago, United States 1,854 miles 45–90 ms
Atlanta, United States 2,119 miles 51–102 ms
Toronto, Canada 2,268 miles 55–109 ms
Miami, United States 2,564 miles 62–124 ms
New York, United States 2,565 miles 62–124 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 5,190 miles 125–251 ms
Hong Kong, China 6,946 miles 168–335 ms
Sydney, Australia 7,415 miles 179–358 ms
Delhi NCR, India 7,738 miles 187–374 ms
Kolkata, India 7,871 miles 190–380 ms
Mumbai, India 8,444 miles 204–408 ms
Singapore 8,487 miles 205–410 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 5,389 miles 130–260 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 5,402 miles 130–261 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5,489 miles 133–265 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 5,713 miles 138–276 ms
Madrid, Spain 5,817 miles 140–281 ms
Milan, Italy 5,983 miles 144–289 ms
Bucharest, Romania 6,470 miles 156–312 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 7,436 miles 180–359 ms

Distances are from Santa Cruz. 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 Santa Cruz

We host servers for companies throughout Santa Cruz, 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 our closest location at 27 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 Santa Cruz — 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 Santa Cruz?
An estimated 1–2 ms to Santa Clara at 27 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.

Other servers in Santa Cruz

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