Game Server Hosting Guides

18 guides

• How to set up a 7 Days to Die dedicated server

  Install with SteamCMD app 294420, copy serverconfig.xml before editing it, open the right ports, and avoid the settings that corrupt save data.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up an ARK: Survival Evolved server

  Install ARK with SteamCMD, build the launch line, forward all four ports, find the two ini files, and protect the Saved folder before it costs you a world.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up an Enshrouded dedicated server

  Install the Enshrouded server from Steam Tools, edit enshrouded_server.json, open the query port, and understand what the world saves actually cover.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up a Factorio headless server

  Create the save first, start it with --start-server, write server-settings.json, open UDP 34197, and find the one router setting that breaks joins.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• Find what is actually lagging your server

  Read TPS and MSPT before buying a bigger plan: tell slow ticks from a bad route, and find the add-on or setting actually at fault.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up a Garry's Mod dedicated server

  Install app 4020 with SteamCMD, set the mandatory Steam login token, mount a Workshop collection, open 27015, and escape a beta branch cleanly.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to make a Minecraft server for friends

  Choose between Paper, Vanilla and Forge, match the Java version, accept the EULA, set the handful of server.properties lines that matter, and open 25565.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• Move a game server without losing the world

  Carry a world, its configuration and its mod set to a new host, verify the copy, and keep the old server until the new one is proven.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up a Palworld dedicated server

  Install the Palworld server, edit the right ini file, open UDP 8211, keep backups, and decide honestly whether to keep hosting it yourself.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• Set up a Project Zomboid dedicated server

  Install the Project Zomboid server, fix the start script before it fails, open both UDP ports, find the ini and lua files, and add mods the way that works.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up a Rust dedicated server

  Install the Rust server with SteamCMD, get the query port right, let server.cfg win, and decide honestly whether to keep hosting it yourself.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• A Rust wipe day checklist for operators

  Force wipe timing from Facepunch's own wipe timer, map versus blueprint wipes, and how to prepare plugins before you announce a wipe.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up a Satisfactory dedicated server

  Install the Satisfactory server with SteamCMD, open both ports, claim it from the Server Manager, and learn where the saves and logs really live.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• Why your server is not showing in the list

  Isolate the real cause when a game server starts cleanly but never appears in the browser: identity, ports, backend, filters and route.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to create a Steam GSLT for your server

  Create a Game Server Login Token, apply it with +sv_setsteamaccount, and avoid the token mistakes that quietly break a public server.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up a Terraria dedicated server

  The vanilla Terraria server and TShock, side by side: where the files are, what serverconfig.txt controls, port 7777, and which files to back up.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• How to set up a Valheim dedicated server

  Install the Valheim server tool, edit a copy of the start script, forward both ports, find your world files, and choose between the two backends.

  Updated 7 September 2026
• When Workshop and mod content will not load

  Diagnose Workshop collections and mod downloads that fail on a dedicated server, then isolate the one add-on breaking the install.

  Updated 7 September 2026