If your Minecraft community is mostly on the US West Coast and you have been hosting in Europe or Canada, your players are connecting across an ocean or across a continent. A server in San Jose puts the game much closer to them. Here is what runs there, what it costs, and when our other US location, Ashburn in Virginia, is the better pick.
Why California
Ping depends mostly on the distance between a player and the server and on the route their connection takes. San Jose sits in Silicon Valley on the West Coast, so players in California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada are close to it. Players on the East Coast are closer to our Virginia location, and both US locations are far closer for American players than a server in Europe.
You do not have to guess. The region selector on our Minecraft hosting page measures your own ping to California, Virginia and our other regions from your browser, so you can compare before you buy.
What Hardware Runs Your Server
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D on Standard, AMD Ryzen 9 9950X on Premium
- Memory: DDR5, sized to the plan you order
- Storage: NVMe SSD
- Location: San Jose, California, or Ashburn, Virginia
- DDoS protection: Included, through Cloudflare Magic Transit
On both lines the CPU is shared with other servers on the same node.
On vanilla, Paper and most modded servers, the game tick (entities, redstone, block updates) runs on one main thread, so per-core speed matters more than a high core count. AMD lists the Ryzen 9 7950X3D with 16 cores and 32 threads, a boost clock of up to 5.7 GHz and 128 MB of L3 cache thanks to its 3D V-Cache. The Ryzen 9 9950X behind Premium has the same 16 cores and 5.7 GHz maximum boost with 64 MB of L3 cache. How that turns into TPS depends on your plugins, mods and world, so check /mspt or a spark profile on your own server rather than going by the spec sheet.
USA Plans
Same RAM tiers as our other regions, and the same prices in California and Virginia. Standard costs €1.00 per GB of RAM. Premium costs our European Premium price plus €0.10 per GB. Checkout bills in EUR; dollar prices on the site are approximate conversions.
| Plan | RAM | Standard | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| MC Coal | 3GB | €3.00 | €5.55 |
| MC Iron | 4GB | €4.00 | €7.40 |
| MC Gold | 5GB | €5.00 | €9.25 |
| MC Lapis | 6GB | €6.00 | €11.10 |
| MC Diamond | 8GB | €8.00 | €14.79 |
| MC Special 1 | 12GB | €12.00 | €23.19 |
| MC Special 2 | 15GB | €15.00 | €27.75 |
| MC Special 3 | 16GB | €16.00 | €29.59 |
| MC Special 4 | 32GB | €33.19 | €60.19 |
The plan selector shows how many players each size suits. Pick USA (California) or USA (Virginia) in the region selector on our Minecraft server hosting in the USA page.
Common Questions
Is Premium available in the USA? Yes. In both California and Virginia you choose between Standard on the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Premium on the Ryzen 9 9950X, both with DDR5 and Cloudflare Magic Transit.
What if half my players are on the West Coast and half on the East Coast? A server sits in one place, so one side will always be further away. Ask a few players on each coast to open the plan selector and note their ping to California and to Virginia. Then pick the location that works for most of them, or for the players who notice lag most, such as PvP players and redstone builders.
Can I move my server from Canada or the Netherlands to the USA later? Yes. Moving a server to another of our locations is free about once a week; ask in live chat and the team moves your world files over.
Does the USA support modpacks like ATM10 or Vault Hunters? Yes, the same modpack installer and Forge, Fabric and NeoForge support work in every region, including California and Virginia.
When is support online? Live chat and Discord support is staffed roughly 08:00 to 20:00 UTC every day. During US daylight saving time that is about 4:00 to 16:00 on the East Coast and 1:00 to 13:00 on the West Coast, so US evenings fall outside staffed hours. Servers are monitored 24/7, and there is no money-back guarantee.
Get Started
See all USA Minecraft plans and pricing, pick USA (California) or USA (Virginia) in the region selector, then choose the RAM tier your community needs.