Timaru, New Zealand

Gaming VPS in Timaru

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

2,079 km from Timaru

31–62 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Timaru. 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

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

Europe, Middle East & Africa

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

Asia-Pacific

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

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 Timaru 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

Timaru is closest to Sydney. Every marker costs the same per month.

Sydney Nearest 2,079 km · 31–62 ms Singapore 8,348 km · 125–250 ms Hong Kong 9,411 km · 141–282 ms Tokyo 9,457 km · 142–284 ms Kolkata 11,205 km · 168–336 ms Los Angeles 11,252 km · 169–338 ms

Show all 24 locations and distances from Timaru ▾

Location	Distance	Est. round trip
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Sydney, Australia	2,079 km	31–62 ms
Singapore	8,348 km	125–250 ms
Hong Kong, China	9,411 km	141–282 ms
Tokyo, Japan	9,457 km	142–284 ms
Kolkata, India	11,205 km	168–336 ms
Mumbai, India	12,130 km	182–364 ms
Delhi NCR, India	12,467 km	187–374 ms
Americas · 9 locations
Los Angeles, United States	11,252 km	169–338 ms
Santa Clara, United States	11,295 km	169–339 ms
Seattle, United States	12,109 km	182–363 ms
Dallas, United States	12,624 km	189–379 ms
Miami, United States	13,409 km	201–402 ms
Atlanta, United States	13,612 km	204–408 ms
Chicago, United States	13,869 km	208–416 ms
Toronto, Canada	14,552 km	218–437 ms
New York, United States	14,798 km	222–444 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
Tel Aviv, Israel	16,029 km	240–481 ms
Bucharest, Romania	17,268 km	259–518 ms
Stockholm, Sweden	17,566 km	263–527 ms
Frankfurt, Germany	18,559 km	278–557 ms
Milan, Italy	18,601 km	279–558 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands	18,677 km	280–560 ms
London, United Kingdom	18,998 km	285–570 ms
Madrid, Spain	19,409 km	291–582 ms

Distances are from Timaru. 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 Timaru

We host servers for companies throughout Timaru, Canterbury and the rest of New Zealand. 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.

Sydney is our closest location at 2,079 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 Timaru — 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. Sydney is closest to Timaru at 2,079 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 Timaru?

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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