Game servers
Latency and consistency, not headline core counts.
Player experience is dominated by network distance and by the server keeping a steady tick rate. Both are addressed by choosing the right region and leaving headroom.
Recommended resource profile
A starting point, not a floor. The hints say what runs short first.
- vCPU
- 4 to 6
- Memory
- 8 to 16 GB
- Storage
- 160 GB NVMe and up
- Transfer
- 10 TB and up
Most game loops are single-thread sensitive.
Scales with world size and player count.
World saves and replays.
What this workload actually needs
Conditions that have to be true before it will work, whatever plan you pick.
Requirements
- The game server software and any license it needs. We do not supply game binaries.
- Inbound ports opened in the firewall for the specific game.
- A region close to the majority of your players.
Deployment considerations
- Requirements vary sharply between titles and with player count. Size for the peak session, not the average.
- Some titles are sensitive to shared CPU. If tick rate matters, leave more headroom than the minimum spec suggests.
- Check which regions are in stock before you announce a server address to players.
What we do not do
- We do not publish latency figures per game or per region, because we cannot substantiate them for your players.
- DDoS protection characteristics are not part of the published plan specification.
Software that suits this workload
Compatible, not preinstalled. No one-click template is configured on any plan in this catalog.
System images
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- Rocky Linux
Commonly run alongside
- Docker
- Node.js
- Python
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Plans that fit this profile
Filtered from the live catalog by the categories this workload suits.
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Game servers questions
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