Delaware, United States
Server infrastructure for Gaming Companies & Communities in Delaware
What Gaming Companies & Communities actually need from a server is predictable performance under load, and enough headroom to grow into. For a medium Gaming business in Delaware 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 Delaware. 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 Gaming
1–10 people · ~5,000 visits a month
$78.50 USD USD
per month · VPS
- Single Core
- 6 GB RAM
- 50 GB storage
About 0.2 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 2.1 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Medium Gaming 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 2.3 requests a second at peak, holding roughly 6 GB of working data.
Configure this build →Large Gaming
51+ people · ~500,000 visits a month
$347.35 USD USD
per month · VDS
- 2 Cores
- 32 GB RAM
- 350 GB storage
- Managed
About 23.2 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.
Which tiers suit Gaming Companies & Communities
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. |
Gaming Companies & Communities workloads you can host
- Game servers
- Matchmaking
- Player databases
- Voice chat
- Mod & asset hosting
- Anti-cheat
Gaming in Delaware, business by business
These are not the same workload. Sized at the medium band, here is what each one actually needs.
| Business | Build | Tier | What decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game Server Hosting | 1 vCPU · 10 GB · 100 GB | VPS | Tick rate is the whole product: a stutter is felt by every player at once and is not forgiven. |
| Game Development | 4 vCPU · 48 GB · 4000 GB | VDS | Game assets are enormous binaries, and version control for them is a storage problem more than a code one. |
| Esports Organisations | 1 vCPU · 10 GB · 1000 GB | VPS | Everything happens during the event window, where thousands watch a match that must not stutter. |
| Gaming Communities | 1 vCPU · 10 GB · 350 GB | VPS | Evenings and weekends carry nearly all the activity, and voice runs for hours per session. |
| Gaming Venues | 4 vCPU · 64 GB · 1500 GB | VDS | Every outcome is logged for audit, and the regulator's requirements shape the architecture more than the playe... |
Where your server runs
All 24 locations cost the same, so pick whichever sits closest to the people who will actually use the server.
Delaware is closest to Chicago. Every marker costs the same per month.
Show all 24 locations and distances from Delaware ▾
| Location | Distance | Est. round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Americas · 9 locations | ||
| Chicago, United States | 261 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Toronto, Canada | 299 miles | 7–14 ms |
| Atlanta, United States | 458 miles | 11–22 ms |
| New York, United States | 477 miles | 12–23 ms |
| Dallas, United States | 921 miles | 22–44 ms |
| Miami, United States | 1,018 miles | 25–49 ms |
| Los Angeles, United States | 1,970 miles | 48–95 ms |
| Seattle, United States | 1,994 miles | 48–96 ms |
| Santa Clara, United States | 2,086 miles | 50–101 ms |
| Europe, Middle East & Africa · 8 locations | ||
| London, United Kingdom | 3,844 miles | 93–186 ms |
| Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 4,013 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Madrid, Spain | 4,023 miles | 97–194 ms |
| Frankfurt, Germany | 4,230 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Stockholm, Sweden | 4,231 miles | 102–204 ms |
| Milan, Italy | 4,415 miles | 107–213 ms |
| Bucharest, Romania | 5,120 miles | 124–247 ms |
| Tel Aviv, Israel | 6,053 miles | 146–292 ms |
| Asia-Pacific · 7 locations | ||
| Tokyo, Japan | 6,527 miles | 158–315 ms |
| Delhi NCR, India | 7,518 miles | 181–363 ms |
| Hong Kong, China | 7,970 miles | 192–385 ms |
| Mumbai, India | 8,052 miles | 194–389 ms |
| Kolkata, India | 8,058 miles | 195–389 ms |
| Sydney, Australia | 9,459 miles | 228–457 ms |
| Singapore | 9,526 miles | 230–460 ms |
Distances are from Delaware. Round trips are estimated from fibre distance, not measured — the figure your users see depends on where they are.
Gaming Companies & Communities in Delaware
The closest of our 24 data centres to Delaware is Chicago, about 261 miles away. Choosing the closest data centre is the cheapest performance improvement available, and it costs nothing extra.
Delaware has a population of about 37,995, which is why the medium build above is the one most likely to fit a Gaming business here — though the other two are a click away if it does not. Local time is America/New York, 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 Delaware
Estimated from fibre distance rather than measured, and stated as a range. Your own access network decides the rest.
| Data centre | Distance from Delaware | Estimated round trip |
|---|---|---|
| Chicagoamericas | 261 miles | 6–13 ms |
| Torontoamericas | 299 miles | 7–14 ms |
| Atlantaamericas | 458 miles | 11–22 ms |
Delaware sits in Ohio, 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.
Gaming Companies & Communities hosting in Delaware — FAQs
What size server does a Gaming business in Delaware, OH need?
Where would the server for my Delaware, OH business actually run?
Is a VPS enough for Gaming Companies & Communities, or do we need a dedicated server?
Can you host game servers for us?
Can we start smaller and grow?
Other industries in Delaware
Same city, different workload.
Gaming Companies & Communities hosting nearby
The same workload, in the nearest cities.