The Colony, United States
Gaming VPS in The Colony
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 The Colony. 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 The Colony 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.
The Colony has a data centre of its own. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from The Colony ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Dallas, United States | Same city | 1–2 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,162 km | 17–35 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,272 km | 19–38 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,807 km | 27–54 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,919 km | 29–58 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,978 km | 30–59 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,196 km | 33–66 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,319 km | 35–70 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,673 km | 40–80 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 7,621 km | 114–229 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 7,880 km | 118–236 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 7,942 km | 119–238 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 8,138 km | 122–244 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 8,235 km | 124–247 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 8,552 km | 128–257 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 9,648 km | 145–289 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 11,173 km | 168–335 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 10,370 km | 156–311 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 13,029 km | 195–391 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 13,136 km | 197–394 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 13,801 km | 207–414 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 13,823 km | 207–415 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 14,114 km | 212–423 ms |
| Singapore | 15,613 km | 234–468 ms |
Distances are from The Colony. 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 The Colony
We host servers for companies throughout The Colony, TX 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.
Dallas is a data centre of ours, so a server ordered here sits in your own city.
Gaming VPS in The Colony — FAQs
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Other servers in The Colony
Same hardware, tuned for a different job.
Gaming hosting nearby
Other towns we host for in the region.