Hardware

One core does the work.
Make it the fastest one.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X — 16 cores / 32 threads, 5.7GHz boost, DDR5-6000, NVMe Gen4

Ryzen 9th Gen 9000 Series Central South Africa Every plan, every game

Clock speed decides tick rate. Not core count.

2.5GHz

A typical South African host (Xeon Gold)

Your game server runs on one core, so make it the fastest one. DDR5-6000 and NVMe Gen4 on every plan.

What every plan runs on

  • ProcessorAMD Ryzen 9 9950X16 cores, 32 threads, 5.7 GHz boost. Your server's tick loop runs on one of them, so it is the boost clock that matters.
  • MemoryDDR5-6000Chunk loads, entity updates and plugin work are memory-bound; fast memory keeps the tick short.
  • StorageNVMe Gen4World saves, backups and map generation without waiting on the disk.
  • PanelPelicanConsole, file manager, backups and schedules in the browser; SFTP for everything else.
  • LocationCentral South AfricaPositioned for low latency from every major South African city. The ping below is measured from your browser.

Against the usual options

Specification Typical SA hostXeon Gold Budget hostRyzen 5 IntenseServersRyzen 9 9950X
Clock speed 2.5 GHz 4.5 GHz 5.7 GHz
Memory DDR4 DDR4 DDR5-6000
Storage SATA SSD NVMe Gen3 NVMe Gen4
Price per GB RAM ~R42 ~R40 R40.00 Best value

Competitor columns are typical published specifications and per-GB prices for those classes of host, not one named provider.

Why clock speed, not core count

A game server is one loop: read what the players did, move everything, send the result, repeat — twenty times a second in Minecraft, sixty-four in Counter-Strike 2. That loop runs on one core. A tick that overruns its slot is lag your players feel, and extra cores do not shorten it; a faster core does.

Hosts quote core counts because they are easy to sell. Every plan here gets the same 5.7 GHz core; the plans differ in the memory and cores around it, and the builder prices exactly that.

  • 1core runs your world's tick loop, whatever the plan
  • 5.7GHz boost on that core, on every plan
  • R40per GB of RAM a month on custom builds, one core per 4 GB
  • R1.00per GB of NVMe a month, 10 to 500 GB

Ping is distance

310ms

From a server in Singapore

Typical round trip from Johannesburg.

The same hardware on every plan.

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