SERVER LOCATIONS

Latency is a function of physical distance and the route between your players and the node. Hosting close to yourself is the most common mistake — if your community is spread across a continent, the location that minimises the worst ping usually produces a better server than the one that minimises your ping. For a player base spread across the United States, Dallas is the strongest single compromise. For a group split between North America and Europe, New York City or Brussels keeps both sides playable.

Ping matters more in some games than others. Shooters and anything with player-versus-player combat — Rust, Squad, Arma, Team Fortress 2 — feel every additional 30 ms. Simulation and building games such as Satisfactory, Factorio or Vintage Story are far more tolerant of latency and far more sensitive to single-thread CPU speed, which is why our nodes use high-clock AMD Ryzen 9 parts rather than many-core server CPUs.

The table above measures each location from your own browser over a WebSocket round trip, so the numbers are real rather than estimated from a map. Locations without a published figure do not yet have a latency probe deployed; the servers there run normally. If you are unsure, open a ticket with your player base's rough geography and we will recommend a location.