Shawinigan, Canada
Server infrastructure for Game Server Hosting in Shawinigan
Infrastructure for Game Server Hosting is a question of matching the machine to the application, then putting it near the people using it. For a medium Game Server Hosting business in Shawinigan 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 Shawinigan. 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.
Shawinigan is closest to Toronto. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Shawinigan ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Toronto, Canada | 381 miles | 9–18 ms |
| New York, United States | 409 miles | 10–20 ms |
| Chicago, United States | 803 miles | 19–39 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 1,075 miles | 26–52 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,495 miles | 36–72 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 1,584 miles | 38–76 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 2,293 miles | 55–111 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 2,508 miles | 61–121 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,563 miles | 62–124 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,170 miles | 77–153 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 3,339 miles | 81–161 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 3,375 miles | 81–163 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 3,556 miles | 86–172 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 3,573 miles | 86–173 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 3,743 miles | 90–181 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 4,447 miles | 107–215 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 5,380 miles | 130–260 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,409 miles | 155–309 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 6,922 miles | 167–334 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 7,420 miles | 179–358 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 7,516 miles | 181–363 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,658 miles | 185–370 ms |
| Singapore | 9,119 miles | 220–440 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,994 miles | 241–483 ms |
Distances are from Shawinigan. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Game Server Hosting in Shawinigan
The closest of our 24 data centres to Shawinigan is Toronto, about 381 miles away. Every kilometre between your users and the server is latency you cannot optimise away in software.
Shawinigan has a population of about 38,211, 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/Toronto, 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 Shawinigan
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Shawinigan | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Torontoamericas | 381 miles | 9–18 ms |
| New Yorkamericas | 409 miles | 10–20 ms |
| Chicagoamericas | 803 miles | 19–39 ms |
Shawinigan sits in Quebec, 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 Shawinigan — FAQs
What size server does a Game Server Hosting business in Shawinigan, QC need?
Where would the server for my Shawinigan, QC 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 Shawinigan
Same city, different workload.
Game Server Hosting hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.