+ STORAGE
Extra NVMe
More space for large worlds or heavy modpacks. Expands instantly.
- + 50 GB NVMe storage
$2.00 one-time
CHICAGO, IL / US-CENTRAL
Minecraft and game server hosting on Ryzen 9 9950X in Chicago—DDR5, 10 Gbps uplinks, and the same hardware story we stand behind on every plan.
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CPU
9950X / 5.7GHz
MEMORY
DDR5
STORAGE
100 GB NVMe
UPLINK
10 Gbps
PRICE & SILICON BENCHMARK
SPEC DEEP DIVE
Tap CPU or DIMM again to close the detail panel.
Tap the CPU or DDR5 diagram for architecture and memory details.
Ryzen 9 9950X on Zen 5 brings a denser front-end and higher IPC than prior cores—better single-thread punch for tick-sensitive game loops and JVM / modpack workloads.
Peak boost up to 5.7 GHz gives bursty compile, world-gen, and GC phases more headroom before you feel scheduler lag on dense servers.
DDR5 on every node—higher bandwidth per channel and improved power efficiency versus DDR4, so large worlds, chunk IO, and database pages stay fed under load.
Lower I/O latency to DRAM helps JVM garbage collection and modded tick pipelines that churn allocations; pair it with the 9950X IMC for predictable frame times.
FEATURES
01 / COMPUTE
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X with DDR5 on 10 Gbps uplinks backing every game instance. Compute lives in Chicago; traffic rides a private backbone into that spine so cross-region latency stays predictable.
99.9% UPTIME
03 / STORAGE
Fast enterprise-grade NVMe with full FTP / SFTP, one-click backups, and MySQL. 100 GB of active capacity per plan.
04 / ROUTING
DDoS scrub capacity is staged at US edge sites in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Ashburn, Miami, and Dallas—anycast-fronted and stitched back to Chicago over our private backbone so clean traffic lands on your server, not in the public internet core.
02 / EDGE
Always-on volumetric scrubbing on a global anycast edge. Attack traffic is pulled into the scrubbing mesh before it reaches your workload; your server stays reachable under sustained floods.
GAME MANIFEST // PARTIAL
Hover a title to preview its recommended plan. Click to deploy. Full loadout on the manifest.
PLANS
Dedicated threads scale with RAM (2–6 per plan).
extras
Extra NVMe when you need it, plus the scrub mesh and L7 stack already folded into every plan.
Note: Extra storage is handled via support ticket after checkout.
+ STORAGE
More space for large worlds or heavy modpacks. Expands instantly.
NETWORK / INCLUDED
Minecraft-aware L7 scrubbing with bot mitigation. Ingress hits the US anycast scrub ring first, then rides the private backbone into Chicago.
PAYMENT / STRIPE
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TOPOLOGY // LATENCY PROBE
Six US anycast scrub points. One backbone. One core spine in Chicago. Click a city to probe the route.
LATENCY DASHBOARD
IDLEProbe from a scrub POP to the Chicago core spine. Samples and averages are pulled from live route measurements.
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LIVE TEST HOST
chicago_l7.graynodes.com
$ ping chicago_l7.graynodes.com
CORE SPINE
CHI
41.85° N · 87.65° W
Private backbone terminated at Chicago. All scrubbed traffic handed off behind the edge ring.
CREATOR PROGRAM
We partner with streamers and creators to provide enterprise-grade hosting in exchange for brand visibility. Partnership with GrayNodes is an upgrade: real infrastructure in Chicago, a sponsorship-level relationship, and performance you can stand behind on stream.
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