Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Gaming VPS in Abu Dhabi

High clock speeds and fast disk for game servers and low latency. Built by hand, usually the same day.

Configure your game server → Recommended from $536.35 USD / month
  • Dedicated cores, never shared
  • Same price in all 24 locations
  • Any TCP or UDP port
Closest location live
Abu Dhabi and its closest data centre Abu Dhabi joined by a link to the Mumbai data centre, 2,000 km away. Abu Dhabi Mumbai Maharashtra, India
2,000 km from Abu Dhabi
30–60 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Abu Dhabi. 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.

Private servers only

Availability

Budget friendly

Only for a private server among friends. Shared processor time shows up as stutter the moment a fight starts.


$514.35USD

per month

Configure

General purpose

Recommended

Workable for smaller player counts and slower genres, where a dropped tick goes unnoticed.


$525.35USD

per month

Configure
Hourly only

Burstable

Not for game servers

Not usable. Throttles under sustained load, and a match is sustained load by definition.


$1.0286USD

per hour — booked for a window, not subscribed

Book by the hour

Launch weekend: add cores and memory on the same server and take them off when the rush settles — by hand, usually within the hour.

Host where your players are

Ping is the one number your players will judge you on, and it is theirs, not yours. Pick the region your community actually lives in — every location costs the same, so there is no reason to compromise.

Americas

Europe, Middle East & Africa

Asia-Pacific

No ping figures here on purpose: your players' latency depends on where they are, and we have not measured a route we cannot see. Distances and estimated round trips from Abu Dhabi are in the table below.

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 players, not to you. Ping is the whole experience in a shooter, and thirty milliseconds is the difference between a hit and a miss.

Asia-Pacific coverage 7 live
Asia-Pacific data centre locations 7 locations across Asia-Pacific, with Mumbai marked as the closest to Abu Dhabi. Mumbai Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi is closest to Mumbai. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Abu Dhabi ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Mumbai, India 2,000 km 30–60 ms
Delhi NCR, India 2,354 km 35–71 ms
Kolkata, India 3,477 km 52–104 ms
Singapore 5,892 km 88–177 ms
Hong Kong, China 6,077 km 91–182 ms
Tokyo, Japan 8,083 km 121–242 ms
Sydney, Australia 12,074 km 181–362 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel 2,106 km 32–63 ms
Bucharest, Romania 3,410 km 51–102 ms
Milan, Italy 4,674 km 70–140 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 4,827 km 72–145 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 4,863 km 73–146 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5,193 km 78–156 ms
London, United Kingdom 5,501 km 83–165 ms
Madrid, Spain 5,642 km 85–169 ms
Americas · 9 locations
New York, United States 11,051 km 166–332 ms
Toronto, Canada 11,127 km 167–334 ms
Chicago, United States 11,703 km 176–351 ms
Seattle, United States 12,040 km 181–361 ms
Atlanta, United States 12,243 km 184–367 ms
Miami, United States 12,622 km 189–379 ms
Dallas, United States 12,991 km 195–390 ms
Santa Clara, United States 13,176 km 198–395 ms
Los Angeles, United States 13,506 km 203–405 ms

Distances are from Abu Dhabi. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.

Dedicated cores, never shared

Any port range you need, TCP or UDP

Root access for your own server binaries

Daily off-server backups of world data

Included with every Gaming server, in every class, at every location.

Game server hosting for Abu Dhabi

We host servers for companies across Abu Dhabi — from the Corniche, Al Reem Island, Khalifa City, Yas Island and Al Maryah Island — and the setup is the same wherever you are: 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.

Mumbai is our closest location at 2,000 km, 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.

Gaming VPS in Abu Dhabi — FAQs

Should I host near me or near my players?
Near your players, always. Ping is the whole experience in a fast game, and it belongs to them rather than to you. Mumbai is closest to Abu Dhabi at 2,000 km, but if your community is elsewhere, host elsewhere — every location costs the same.
Which hardware class does a game server need?
Dedicated. A game server has to finish every tick on time, and that only holds when nothing else is competing for the cores. The shared classes show up as stutter the moment a fight starts, and Burstable throttles under exactly the sustained load a full match creates.
Can I open custom ports and run my own binaries?
Yes. Root access, any TCP or UDP port range, and your own server build — there is no supported-games list because there is nothing between you and the machine.
What ping will my players get?
That depends entirely on where they are, and we will not quote a figure for a player whose location we do not know. What we can tell you is the distance from each of our 24 locations, which is on this page — pick the one nearest your community.
How much does a game server cost in Abu Dhabi?
From $514.35 USD per month, with $536.35 USD on the Dedicated class, which is the one worth buying here. The same prices apply in all 24 locations.

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