Game servers that survive the Reddit hug of doom.
Always-on 2 Tbps DDoS shield, anycast routing, pinned high-clock cores and hourly billing. From a 12-friend Minecraft realm to 84k-CCU launches.
Three things that keep your players online.
DDoS-tested, jitter-tuned, multi-region. Built with help from indie studios and esports operators we've supported since 2018.
Always-on DDoS shield
2 Tbps of always-on mitigation in every region. Game-aware filters for Source, Quake, Valheim and Minecraft protocols.
Anycast game routing
Players hit the nearest of 14 regions automatically. Hot-migrate sessions between PoPs with zero packet loss.
High-clock dedicated cores
Pinned 5.0 GHz Ryzen and Xeon cores for tick-rate-bound games. Hyperthreading off, real-time priority on.
Game ops that already trust us.
Halcyon's launch night handled 84k concurrent players seamlessly.
Iron Forge geo-pins matches to <12ms regional PoPs.
"We took a 90-minute outage during our last launch on a hyperscaler. On HostEngine our 240 community servers haven't seen a second of attack downtime."
Frequently asked questions
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Which games are officially supported?
We maintain tuned templates for Minecraft, Valheim, Rust, Counter-Strike 2, Source-engine titles, ARK, Palworld and Foundry. Bring any other Linux/Windows game and we'll help tune it.
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How does DDoS Shield work for game traffic?
Game-aware filters work at L4 with protocol fingerprints — RAKnet, Source, Quake3 and custom UDP. Attack vectors that look like normal traffic are absorbed by anycast capacity, not your droplet.
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Can I migrate sessions live during incidents?
Yes. We expose hot-migration as a single API call. Your players see zero disconnect when we move them between regions or hardware.
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Is hourly billing available?
Every plan, including dedicated bare-metal. Spin up event-driven capacity for a launch weekend, tear it down on Tuesday morning.
Ship on infrastructure built for the next decade.
Spin up a region in under a minute. Bring your own panel. Pay by the hour. Cancel any time.
- No credit card to start
- Free migration from any provider
- 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s