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 North American player base, pick the side of the continent most of your players live on: New York City or Toronto for the east, Miami for the south and San Jose for the west. 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, such as Rust, Squad, Arma and 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.