For game studios

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.

Tuned for tick rate

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.

In the wild

Game ops that already trust us.

Community network

Mossridge Games runs 240 community servers across 14 regions.

0 attack downtime
Indie title

Halcyon's launch night handled 84k concurrent players seamlessly.

84k CCU
Esports league

Iron Forge geo-pins matches to <12ms regional PoPs.

<12ms p99 RTT
"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."
JC Jules Carter CTO, Mossridge Games
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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Ready when you are

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
Frankfurt · 3 nodes · healthy
38ms p99
# 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
55s
median provision
14
global regions
$200
welcome credit