Alberta, Canada
Server infrastructure for Game Development in Alberta
Most Game Development outgrow their first server in one specific place — and it is rarely the one the plan name suggests. For a small Game Development business in Alberta that is about Single Core, 16 GB of memory and 1500 GB of storage on VPS.
- ✓ 5 infrastructure tiers
- ✓ Sized for your workload, not a plan name
- ✓ Same price in all 24 locations
Estimated from fibre distance, not measured from Alberta. Your real figure depends on your connection and route, and lands inside this range.
Choose the infrastructure for your workload
Three sizes of business, each sized from an assumed traffic figure rather than a measured one. If you know your own numbers, tell us and the estimate changes with them.
Small Game Development Most likely here
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$348.50 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 16 GB RAM
- 1500 GB storage
- GPU on request
About 0.1 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 11.2 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Game Development
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$938.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 4 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 0.6 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 32 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Game Development
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$2,140.15 USD USD
per month · Dedicated Server
- 16 Cores
- 196 GB RAM
- 4000 GB storage
- Managed
- GPU on request
About 6.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 128 GB of working data.
Configure this build →These figures are assumptions stated out loud, not predictions about your business. Memory, cores and disk can all be raised on the same server later, usually within the hour, with no rebuild and no new IP address — so starting one size below the estimate is normally the cheaper mistake.
Why Game Development size up this way
Working from about 5,000 visits a month and roughly 2,667 requests a day, storage grows by roughly 105 GB a month at this size, which usually decides the build before CPU does; about 11 GB of data needs to stay in memory to keep queries fast; and each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site.
- 0.1 req/sec at peak
- 11.2 GB working set
- 105 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Game Development
Including the ones that do not, and why — that is usually the more useful half.
| Infrastructure | Verdict | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Hosting Managed space on a shared server | Not this one | There is no version of this workload that fits on shared hosting. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Useful for development, notebooks and light inference, but not for training or sustained compute. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Workable | Suits CPU-bound preprocessing and data preparation with a guaranteed share of the machine. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Production compute wants the whole machine, with memory bandwidth that is not being shared. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Recommended | Training, inference and simulation belong on physical hardware, with GPUs available on request. |
Game Development workloads you can host
Game assets are enormous binaries, and version control for them is a storage problem more than a code one.
- Asset version control
- Build farm
- Playtest builds
- Crash & telemetry capture
- Localisation pipeline
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Alberta is closest to Seattle. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Alberta ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Seattle, United States | 490 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 1,090 miles | 26–53 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,263 miles | 30–61 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,405 miles | 34–68 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,577 miles | 38–76 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 1,675 miles | 40–81 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,926 miles | 46–93 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,017 miles | 49–97 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,517 miles | 61–122 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,286 miles | 103–207 ms |
| London, United Kingdom | 4,309 miles | 104–208 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,395 miles | 106–212 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,617 miles | 111–223 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,799 miles | 116–232 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,897 miles | 118–236 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,356 miles | 129–259 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,320 miles | 153–305 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 4,943 miles | 119–239 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,545 miles | 158–316 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,830 miles | 165–330 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,112 miles | 172–343 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,508 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Singapore | 8,151 miles | 197–394 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 8,221 miles | 198–397 ms |
Distances are from Alberta. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Game Development in Alberta
The closest of our 24 data centres to Alberta is Seattle, about 490 miles away. Round-trip time is set by physical distance more than by anything else, so the nearest site is usually the right one.
Alberta has a population of about 3,277, which is why the small build above is the one most likely to fit a Game Development business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Edmonton, so routine maintenance and backups are scheduled against your overnight rather than ours.
Data stays in the jurisdiction you choose, which matters if you are working to PIPEDA. Pricing is quoted in CAD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from Alberta
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Alberta | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Seattleamericas | 490 miles | 12–24 ms |
| Santa Claraamericas | 1,090 miles | 26–53 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 1,263 miles | 30–61 ms |
every one of our 24 locations costs the same — so the only thing worth optimising is which of them your users are closest to. At the small size assumed above, that is roughly 2,667 requests a day crossing that link.
Game Development hosting in Alberta — FAQs
What size server does a Game Development business in Alberta need?
Where would the server for my Alberta business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Game Development, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host asset version control for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Alberta
Same city, different workload.
Game Development hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.