Carol Stream, United States
Gaming VPS in Carol Stream
High clock speeds and fast disk for game servers and low latency. Built by hand, usually the same day.
- ✓ Dedicated cores, never shared
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
- ✓ Any TCP or UDP port
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Carol Stream. 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
Only for a private server among friends. Shared processor time shows up as stutter the moment a fight starts.
$514.35USD
per month
ConfigureGeneral purpose
Recommended
Workable for smaller player counts and slower genres, where a dropped tick goes unnoticed.
$525.35USD
per month
ConfigureDedicated
The usual choice
A game server has to finish every tick on time, and dedicated cores are the only way that holds when the server is full.
$536.35USD
per month
ConfigureBurstable
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 hourLaunch 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 Carol Stream 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.
Carol Stream is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Carol Stream ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 42 km | 1–2 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 740 km | 11–22 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 965 km | 14–29 ms |
| New York, United States | 1,186 km | 18–36 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,271 km | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,938 km | 29–58 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,749 km | 41–82 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,763 km | 41–83 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,921 km | 44–88 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 6,381 km | 96–191 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 6,635 km | 100–199 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 6,759 km | 101–203 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 6,900 km | 104–207 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 6,992 km | 105–210 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 7,319 km | 110–220 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 8,401 km | 126–252 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 9,930 km | 149–298 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,113 km | 152–303 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 12,042 km | 181–361 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 12,513 km | 188–375 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 12,836 km | 193–385 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 12,958 km | 194–389 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 14,835 km | 223–445 ms |
| Singapore | 15,056 km | 226–452 ms |
Distances are from Carol Stream. 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 Carol Stream
We host servers for companies throughout Carol Stream, 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 42 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 Carol Stream — FAQs
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