Rapid City, United States

Gaming VPS in Rapid City

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
Rapid City and its closest data centre Rapid City joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 1,291 km away. Rapid City Chicago Illinois, United States
1,291 km from Rapid City
19–39 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Rapid City. 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 Rapid City 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.

Americas coverage 9 live
Americas data centre locations 9 locations across Americas, with Chicago marked as the closest to Rapid City. Chicago Rapid City

Rapid City is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Rapid City ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 1,291 km 19–39 ms
Dallas, United States 1,375 km 21–41 ms
Seattle, United States 1,526 km 23–46 ms
Los Angeles, United States 1,705 km 26–51 ms
Santa Clara, United States 1,741 km 26–52 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,906 km 29–57 ms
Atlanta, United States 1,987 km 30–60 ms
New York, United States 2,416 km 36–72 ms
Miami, United States 2,907 km 44–87 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 7,083 km 106–212 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 7,285 km 109–219 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,330 km 110–220 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,649 km 115–229 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,658 km 115–230 ms
Milan, Italy 8,042 km 121–241 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,972 km 135–269 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,536 km 158–316 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 9,114 km 137–273 ms
Hong Kong, China 11,708 km 176–351 ms
Delhi NCR, India 11,940 km 179–358 ms
Kolkata, India 12,510 km 188–375 ms
Mumbai, India 12,981 km 195–389 ms
Sydney, Australia 13,700 km 206–411 ms
Singapore 14,294 km 214–429 ms

Distances are from Rapid City. 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 Rapid City

We host servers for companies throughout Rapid City, SD 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 1,291 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 Rapid City — 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. Chicago is closest to Rapid City at 1,291 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 Rapid City?
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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