Sycamore, United States

Hourly VPS in Sycamore

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
Sycamore and its closest data centre Sycamore joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 55 miles away. Sycamore Chicago Illinois, United States
55 miles from Sycamore
1–3 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Sycamore. 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 Chicago marked as the closest to Sycamore. Chicago Sycamore

Sycamore is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Sycamore ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 55 miles 1–3 ms
Toronto, Canada 485 miles 12–23 ms
Atlanta, United States 615 miles 15–30 ms
New York, United States 766 miles 18–37 ms
Dallas, United States 776 miles 19–37 ms
Miami, United States 1,221 miles 29–59 ms
Seattle, United States 1,680 miles 41–81 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,690 miles 41–82 ms
Santa Clara, United States 1,786 miles 43–86 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 3,983 miles 96–192 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4,139 miles 100–200 ms
Madrid, Spain 4,222 miles 102–204 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 4,299 miles 104–208 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 4,361 miles 105–211 ms
Milan, Italy 4,566 miles 110–220 ms
Bucharest, Romania 5,236 miles 126–253 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 6,186 miles 149–299 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 6,263 miles 151–302 ms
Delhi NCR, India 7,484 miles 181–361 ms
Hong Kong, China 7,760 miles 187–375 ms
Kolkata, India 7,972 miles 192–385 ms
Mumbai, India 8,056 miles 194–389 ms
Sydney, Australia 9,191 miles 222–444 ms
Singapore 9,342 miles 226–451 ms

Distances are from Sycamore. 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 Sycamore

We host servers for companies throughout Sycamore, IL 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.

Chicago is our closest location at 55 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 Sycamore — 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 Sycamore?
An estimated 1–3 ms to Chicago at 55 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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