A gaming VPS is sized differently from a web server, and the number that decides everything is RAM per player slot. Get that wrong and no amount of CPU rescues the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xenax KVM VPS starts at \u20b9599 a month<\/strong> in an Indian data centre with 100 Gbps DDoS protection \u2014 which for a game server is not a bonus feature, it is the thing that keeps you online when someone loses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are working figures for a vanilla server. Mods change them completely \u2014 a heavily modded Minecraft server can want three or four times this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two things people get wrong here. Running out of RAM does not slow a game server down gracefully \u2014 it swaps, then stalls, then the kernel kills it mid-session. And most game servers are single-threaded on the tick loop, so eight slow cores lose to four fast ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ping is mostly the physical distance between the player and the machine, and no amount of CPU changes it. A server in India serves Indian players at 20-40 ms. The same server serves European players at 120-160 ms and American ones at 200-250 ms, because that is how far the light has to travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So put the server where your players are. If your group is in India, an Indian server is not a compromise \u2014 it is the only way to get the ping that makes fast games playable. If half your group is in Europe, someone is going to have a worse time whatever you buy, and it is worth deciding in advance who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Game servers get attacked. Not by sophisticated adversaries \u2014 by a player who lost a round and found a booter service for a few dollars. A web host may never see this; a Minecraft server with a public IP will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What matters is that the filtering happens upstream at the network edge rather than on your machine, because a VPS being hit at 10 Gbps cannot filter its way out of it. Xenax filtering is at the edge, rated to 100 Gbps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Start one tier above what the table suggests for your player count, run a full session, and watch memory rather than CPU. If you never touch 70% of RAM you can size down at renewal; if you touch 90% during a busy evening you were already too small. Fifteen days is enough to find out, which is the length of the money-back window.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow much RAM per player, honestly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Game<\/th> Players<\/th> RAM<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Minecraft (vanilla)<\/td> up to 10<\/td> 2-4 GB<\/td><\/tr> Minecraft (modded)<\/td> up to 10<\/td> 6-8 GB<\/td><\/tr> Counter-Strike 2<\/td> 10-12<\/td> 2 GB<\/td><\/tr> Valheim<\/td> up to 10<\/td> 4 GB<\/td><\/tr> Rust<\/td> 50-100<\/td> 8-16 GB<\/td><\/tr> ARK<\/td> up to 20<\/td> 8-16 GB<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Latency is about distance, not the plan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Why DDoS protection matters more here than anywhere<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What to look for in a gaming VPS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sizing it in practice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n