Punchbowl, Australia
Software VPS in Punchbowl
Dedicated cores for builds, CI and compute that cannot wait its turn. Built by hand, usually the same day.
- ✓ Dedicated cores throughout
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Root access, any toolchain
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
Cheap for a build box that runs overnight and that nobody waits on.
$283.50USD
per month
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Consistent processor time, which keeps build times roughly repeatable.
$294.50USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
The usual choice
Dedicated cores mean nothing else competes for them, so a build takes as long as it takes and no longer.
$305.50USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
Not for compilation
A poor fit. Throttles under sustained load, and compilation is sustained load throughout.
$0.5859USD
per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed
Book by the hourAdd cores for a heavy release week and take them off afterwards — the change is made by hand on the same server, usually within the hour.
Your toolchain, your runners
A build server is only useful if it can run what you actually build with. This is a machine with root on it, not a platform with a supported-language list.
Any runtime, any version
Install the compiler, SDK or interpreter you need, at the version you need, including the ones your CI provider stopped supporting.
Self-hosted CI runners
Point GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins at it and stop paying per build minute. The machine is yours whether it is busy or idle.
Nothing else on your cores
On the Dedicated class no other customer shares the processor, which is what makes a build time repeatable rather than merely typical.
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 the people pushing code and to whatever the build pulls from — package registries and your git host are the two round trips a build makes most.
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 | 6,297 km | 94–189 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,372 km | 111–221 ms |
| Tokyo, Japan | 7,830 km | 117–235 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 9,130 km | 137–274 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 10,146 km | 152–304 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 10,400 km | 156–312 ms |
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 11,976 km | 180–359 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 12,090 km | 181–363 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 12,485 km | 187–375 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 13,835 km | 208–415 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 14,892 km | 223–447 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 14,961 km | 224–449 ms |
| Miami, United States | 15,041 km | 226–451 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 15,584 km | 234–468 ms |
| New York, United States | 16,005 km | 240–480 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 14,168 km | 213–425 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 15,222 km | 228–457 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 15,593 km | 234–468 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 16,477 km | 247–494 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 16,548 km | 248–496 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 16,638 km | 250–499 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 16,989 km | 255–510 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 17,674 km | 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.
Root access and your choice of toolchain
Daily off-server backups
No shared CPU — dedicated cores throughout
Any Linux image, or Windows if you build for it
Included with every Software server, in every class, at every location.
Build hosting 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.
Software VPS in Punchbowl — FAQs
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Other servers in Punchbowl
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.