Urbandale, United States
Hourly VPS in Urbandale
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 Urbandale. 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.
Urbandale is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Urbandale ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 314 miles | 8–15 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 634 miles | 15–31 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 741 miles | 18–36 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 745 miles | 18–36 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,025 miles | 25–49 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,340 miles | 32–65 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,431 miles | 35–69 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,458 miles | 35–70 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,527 miles | 37–74 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 4,187 miles | 101–202 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,336 miles | 105–209 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,456 miles | 108–215 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,459 miles | 108–215 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,560 miles | 110–220 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,776 miles | 115–231 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,423 miles | 131–262 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,382 miles | 154–308 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,119 miles | 148–295 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,556 miles | 182–365 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,672 miles | 185–370 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,999 miles | 193–386 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,156 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,933 miles | 216–431 ms |
| Singapore | 9,271 miles | 224–448 ms |
Distances are from Urbandale. 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 Urbandale
We host servers for companies throughout Urbandale, IA 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 314 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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