How to choose a VPS for game servers
What a game server VPS really needs: fast single core speed and enough RAM. Sizing, ports, systemd restarts, backups, and why latency is about location.
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What a game server VPS really needs: fast single core speed and enough RAM. Sizing, ports, systemd restarts, backups, and why latency is about location.
When a Toronto VPS is worth it: Canadian data residency limits, real latency to the GTA and northeast US, TorIX peering, and when to host somewhere else.
What a Dallas VPS actually gives you: central US latency to both coasts, dense carrier peering, the ERCOT grid question, and when to host elsewhere.
Only one reason forces a Canadian server, and it is not latency. What PIPEDA really requires, and how to measure the round trip from where your users are.