Upper Alton, United States

Gaming VPS in Upper Alton

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
Upper Alton and its closest data centre Upper Alton joined by a link to the Chicago data centre, 393 km away. Upper Alton Chicago Illinois, United States
393 km from Upper Alton
6–12 ms estimated round trip

Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Upper Alton. 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 Upper Alton 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 Upper Alton. Chicago Upper Alton

Upper Alton is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.

Show all 24 locations and distances from Upper Alton ▾
Location Distance Est. round trip
Americas · 9 locations
Chicago, United States 393 km 6–12 ms
Atlanta, United States 772 km 12–23 ms
Dallas, United States 907 km 14–27 ms
Toronto, Canada 1,042 km 16–31 ms
New York, United States 1,391 km 21–42 ms
Miami, United States 1,733 km 26–52 ms
Los Angeles, United States 2,558 km 38–77 ms
Seattle, United States 2,756 km 41–83 ms
Santa Clara, United States 2,773 km 42–83 ms
Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations
London, United Kingdom 6,735 km 101–202 ms
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6,994 km 105–210 ms
Madrid, Spain 7,077 km 106–212 ms
Stockholm, Sweden 7,273 km 109–218 ms
Frankfurt, Germany 7,349 km 110–220 ms
Milan, Italy 7,667 km 115–230 ms
Bucharest, Romania 8,764 km 131–263 ms
Tel Aviv, Israel 10,287 km 154–309 ms
Asia-Pacific · 7 locations
Tokyo, Japan 10,273 km 154–308 ms
Delhi NCR, India 12,405 km 186–372 ms
Hong Kong, China 12,751 km 191–383 ms
Kolkata, India 13,177 km 198–395 ms
Mumbai, India 13,329 km 200–400 ms
Sydney, Australia 14,597 km 219–438 ms
Singapore 15,316 km 230–459 ms

Distances are from Upper Alton. 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 Upper Alton

We host servers for companies throughout Upper Alton, 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 393 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 Upper Alton — 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 Upper Alton at 393 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 Upper Alton?
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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