North Highlands, United States
Server infrastructure for Game Server Hosting in North Highlands
Sizing infrastructure for Game Server Hosting starts with the workload, then works back to cores, memory and disk. For a medium Game Server Hosting business in North Highlands that is about Single Core, 10 GB of memory and 100 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 North Highlands. 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 Server Hosting
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$78.50 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 50 GB storage
About 0.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Game Server Hosting Most likely here
11–50 people · ~50,000 visits a month
$116.30 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 10 GB RAM
- 100 GB storage
- Managed
About 2.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Game Server Hosting
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$479.65 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 6 Cores
- 48 GB RAM
- 350 GB storage
- Managed
About 28.9 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 24 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 Server Hosting size up this way
Working from about 50,000 visits a month and roughly 50,000 requests a day, peaks run about 5× the average hour, so the build is sized for the busiest moment rather than the typical one; and each request costs real computation rather than a cache lookup, so cores matter more here than on a typical site.
- 2.9 req/sec at peak
- 6 GB working set
- 5 GB/month growth
- Linux
Which tiers suit Game Server Hosting
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 | Persistent connections and custom ports are exactly what a shared platform does not permit. |
| VPS Flexible virtual infrastructure with full root access | Workable | Enough for a small server or a test instance, though a noisy neighbour shows up immediately as jitter. |
| VDS Virtual server with resources pinned to you alone | Recommended | Pinned cores are what keep tick rate and call quality steady; on a contended instance they are not. |
| Dedicated Server An entire physical server, configured to your specification | Recommended | Single-tenant hardware removes the last source of variance, which is what these workloads are judged on. |
| Bare Metal Physical compute for sustained, demanding workloads | Workable | For operators running many instances at once on hardware they control. |
Game Server Hosting workloads you can host
Tick rate is the whole product: a stutter is felt by every player at once and is not forgiven.
- Game server instances
- Tick loop & state sync
- Voice chat relay
- Mod & map storage
- Anti-cheat
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
North Highlands is closest to Santa Clara. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from North Highlands ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Santa Clara, United States | 97 miles | 2–5 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 364 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 618 miles | 15–30 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,433 miles | 35–69 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 1,781 miles | 43–86 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 2,075 miles | 50–100 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 2,187 miles | 53–106 ms |
| New York, United States | 2,491 miles | 60–120 ms |
| Miami, United States | 2,542 miles | 61–123 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 5,154 miles | 124–249 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 6,899 miles | 167–333 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 7,504 miles | 181–362 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,637 miles | 184–369 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,787 miles | 188–376 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,340 miles | 201–403 ms |
| Singapore | 8,454 miles | 204–408 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 5,270 miles | 127–254 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 5,279 miles | 127–255 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 5,369 miles | 130–259 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 5,592 miles | 135–270 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 5,705 miles | 138–275 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 5,863 miles | 142–283 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 6,347 miles | 153–306 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 7,313 miles | 177–353 ms |
Distances are from North Highlands. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Game Server Hosting in North Highlands
The closest of our 24 data centres to North Highlands is Santa Clara, about 97 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
North Highlands has a population of about 42,694, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Game Server Hosting business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/Los Angeles, 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 state privacy laws such as the CCPA. Pricing is quoted in USD, and the figure is the same wherever the machine physically sits.
Network reach from North Highlands
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from North Highlands | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Claraamericas | 97 miles | 2–5 ms |
| Los Angelesamericas | 364 miles | 9–18 ms |
| Seattleamericas | 618 miles | 15–30 ms |
North Highlands sits in California, and 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 medium size assumed above, that is roughly 50,000 requests a day crossing that link.
Game Server Hosting hosting in North Highlands — FAQs
What size server does a Game Server Hosting business in North Highlands, CA need?
Where would the server for my North Highlands, CA business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Game Server Hosting, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host game server instances for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in North Highlands
Same city, different workload.
Game Server Hosting hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.