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How to pick your server location without getting it wrong
The location closest to you is almost never the right one. Here's how to decide based on where your players actually are.
· 4 min read
The most common mistake when ordering a server is picking the city closest to yourself. It makes emotional sense and no technical sense: you are one player among many, and the latency that matters is the community's as a whole.
If most of your community sits on the US east coast with some presence in the west, New York keeps almost everyone under 40 ms and leaves west-coast players around 70 ms, which is perfectly playable. Doing it the other way round, hosting in Los Angeles for an east-coast community, pushes the majority above 80 ms.
For genuinely spread-out communities, decide by time zone: host where the people who play during your peak hours are, not where the largest number of registered users happen to live.
The ping meter on our site measures from your own browser against each region. Ask two or three players from different areas to run it and send you the result before you decide.
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