The Colony, United States
Hourly VPS in The Colony
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 The Colony. 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.
The Colony has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Colony ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 722 miles | 17–35 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 790 miles | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,123 miles | 27–54 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,192 miles | 29–58 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,229 miles | 30–59 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,364 miles | 33–66 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,441 miles | 35–70 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,661 miles | 40–80 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,735 miles | 114–229 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,896 miles | 118–236 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,935 miles | 119–238 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,057 miles | 122–244 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,117 miles | 124–247 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,314 miles | 128–257 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,995 miles | 145–289 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,943 miles | 168–335 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,444 miles | 156–311 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 8,096 miles | 195–391 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 8,162 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,575 miles | 207–414 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,589 miles | 207–415 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,770 miles | 212–423 ms |
| Singapore | 9,701 miles | 234–468 ms |
Distances are from The Colony. 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 The Colony
We host servers for companies throughout The Colony, TX 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.
Dallas is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
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Other servers in The Colony
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.
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