San Rafael, United States

Gaming VPS in San Rafael

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

86 km from San Rafael

1–3 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from San Rafael. 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

Recommended for games

Dedicated

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

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

Santa Clara California and the US west coast Los Angeles Southern California and the US southwest Seattle The US Pacific Northwest and western Canada Dallas Texas and the US south Chicago Most central The US Midwest, and the most central choice for nationwide US selling Atlanta The US southeast Toronto Canada and the US northeast New York The US east coast Miami Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America

Europe, Middle East & Africa

London The UK and Ireland Stockholm The Nordic countries Amsterdam The Benelux countries and north-west Europe Frankfurt Most central Germany, Austria and central Europe — the most central choice for EU-wide selling Madrid Spain, Portugal and south-west Europe Milan Italy and southern Europe Bucharest Romania and south-east Europe Tel Aviv Israel and the eastern Mediterranean

Asia-Pacific

Tokyo Japan and South Korea Hong Kong Hong Kong, southern China and Taiwan Sydney Australia and New Zealand Delhi NCR Northern India Kolkata Eastern India and Bangladesh Mumbai Western India Singapore Most central South-east Asia, and the most central choice for the region

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 San Rafael 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

San Rafael is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.

Santa Clara Nearest 86 km · 1–3 ms Los Angeles 582 km · 9–17 ms Seattle 1,071 km · 16–32 ms Dallas 2,395 km · 36–72 ms Chicago 2,987 km · 45–90 ms Atlanta 3,445 km · 52–103 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from San Rafael ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Santa Clara, United States	86 km	1–3 ms
Los Angeles, United States	582 km	9–17 ms
Seattle, United States	1,071 km	16–32 ms
Dallas, United States	2,395 km	36–72 ms
Chicago, United States	2,987 km	45–90 ms
Atlanta, United States	3,445 km	52–103 ms
Toronto, Canada	3,644 km	55–109 ms
New York, United States	4,131 km	62–124 ms
Miami, United States	4,182 km	63–125 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan	8,254 km	124–248 ms
Hong Kong, China	11,075 km	166–332 ms
Sydney, Australia	11,950 km	179–359 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,334 km	185–370 ms
Kolkata, India	12,549 km	188–376 ms
Mumbai, India	13,470 km	202–404 ms
Singapore	13,562 km	203–407 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom	8,603 km	129–258 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	8,604 km	129–258 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	8,759 km	131–263 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	9,119 km	137–274 ms
Madrid, Spain	9,308 km	140–279 ms
Milan, Italy	9,557 km	143–287 ms
Bucharest, Romania	10,326 km	155–310 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel	11,878 km	178–356 ms

Distances are from San Rafael. 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 San Rafael

We host servers for companies throughout San Rafael, CA 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.

Santa Clara is our closest location at 86 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 San Rafael — 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. Santa Clara is closest to San Rafael at 86 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 San Rafael?

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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