Dodo8 GB
Basic
For getting started with a few friends.
€16.99/month
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Choose plan – ARK Basic- Memory8 GB
- vCores2
- NVMe storage40 GB
- Backup slots2
- Databases1
- Ports4
Rent an ARK Server
Your map, your rates, your rules. How fast your tribe tames, harvests and raises is up to you – you don’t pay for slots.
Which map?
How many player slots?
Plan
€16.99 /month · 8 GB RAM · 2 vCores
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- DDoS protection at no extra cost
- Data centre in Germany
Session listPreview
[EU] Camp on the Beach
Players: 0/30Day: 1- Session filter
- Unofficial
- Map
- The Island
This is how your server appears in the ARK session list, under “Unofficial”. You enter session name, map and player slots (1 to 127) in the startup settings in the panel.
Plans
Four sizes, from dodo to brontosaurus. No plan limits your slots – you decide how many survivors can join.
Raptor12 GB
Advanced
More room for mods and larger tribes.
€24.99/month
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Choose plan – ARK Advanced- Memory12 GB
- vCores3
- NVMe storage60 GB
- Backup slots3
- Databases2
- Ports4
Tyrannosaurus16 GB
Premium
For big maps, many mods and full stables.
€29.99/month
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Choose plan – ARK Premium- Memory16 GB
- vCores4,5
- NVMe storage80 GB
- Backup slots4
- Databases2
- Ports4
Brontosaurus20 GB
Community
For open servers where many tribes build.
€37.99/month
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Choose plan – ARK Community- Memory20 GB
- vCores6
- NVMe storage120 GB
- Backup slots5
- Databases3
- Ports5
Prices for monthly payment, final prices (no VAT under § 19 UStG), no setup fee. Up to 15 % less when you pay in advance – the prices per term are on the product page. In every plan: any map, Workshop mods, console, file manager and SFTP. Rather pick your own values? Go to the custom configuration
When your tribe grows
- Extend your server
- Add memory, cores or storage one by one – permanently and without changing plans.
- Boost
- More memory and CPU power for exactly the time you need it. At the weekend, for example, when the whole tribe is online.
- Change plans
- Up at any time and at once, the difference is charged pro rata. Down at the end of the term.
- Pause your server
- The tribe is taking a break? While your server is paused you only pay for keeping your data – and you resume whenever you like.
Your rates
Four values decide how fast your tribe gets ahead. Set them here – next to them you get the finished lines for your server’s settings files.
How fast should it be?
Taming
TamingSpeedMultiplierA tame that would take 2 hours is done after about 40 minutes.
Harvesting
HarvestAmountMultiplierEvery hit yields twice the amount of wood, stone and berries.
Experience
XPMultiplierEvery action earns twice as many experience points.
Baby maturation
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplierA baby that would take 4 days to grow is fully grown after about 19 hours.
The lines for your server
GameUserSettings.iniShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/
[ServerSettings] TamingSpeedMultiplier=3.0 HarvestAmountMultiplier=2.0 XPMultiplier=2.0
Game.iniShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/
[/script/shootergame.shootergamemode] BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier=5.0
The values are factors: 1.0 is what the game ships with, 3.0 means three times as fast or three times as much.
- Where do I enter this?
- In the panel’s file manager or via SFTP, in the folder
ShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer. The section[ServerSettings]already exists inGameUserSettings.ini– put the lines there instead of creating it twice. - Stop first, then edit
- ARK rewrites its settings file when it shuts down. Stop the server, change the values and start it again – then they stay.
- Hatching and mating
Game.iniis also the place for hatching time and mating interval:EggHatchSpeedMultiplierandMatingIntervalMultiplier. If the file does not exist yet, create it in the same folder.
Nexthosting Schutz
Players stay connected. Flooders get locked out.
Every game server at Nexthosting is protected against DDoS attacks at no extra cost. With a dedicated IP address, your server gets a filter all to itself – and you get the panel where you watch every attack bounce off.
All quiet. Blue means your players. They walk through the gate – that is your server's port.
Example, no real data
Arriving right now242
Turned away1
Let through238
packets per second
Moving example from the protection panel: small squares run towards a wall. Blue squares – the players – pass through the gate to the server, during an attack too. Sand-coloured squares – the attack – get stuck at the wall.
Sand stays outside
Senders that open connections in bulk are locked out automatically while an attack is running. You lift any lock with one click.
Blue keeps playing
Existing connections are never cut. Regulars – anyone who has spent a while on your server – get in straight away, even in the middle of an attack.
Your situation room
You see where it comes from
The map shows the traffic to your server, country by country. Block a country with one click – or allow only the ones you choose. If you like, the protection blocks attacking countries by itself while an attack is running.
Every attack is put on record
Course, waves and senders, minute by minute – as a PDF and as a table. One click reports the attack to Nexthosting: an urgent notice at once, followed by a full report as a PDF. On request with a confirmation you can hand to the police or other authorities.
You decide how strict
Three protection levels – and if you like, the protection tightens by itself when an attack starts. You are told by e-mail and Discord as soon as an attack begins and when it is over. Plus: a test of the protection at the push of a button, co-managers for your community's admins, and traffic per port.
What the protection costs
- With every game server
- The data centre's basic protection against DDoS attacks. At no extra cost.
- With a dedicated IP address
- A filter for your address alone, and the protection panel with it – for €3.79 a month plus a one-time setup fee of €4.99, with no further charge. Usually set up within a few minutes; you can also add it later.
Order a ARK serverCompare plans
You pick the dedicated IP address as an add-on while ordering. Server location: a data centre in Germany.
Eleven maps, one field
Which map runs is decided by a single field in the startup settings. Tap an island – next to it you see what to enter.
The islands are drawn freely, not the real outlines.
Startup settingsHow you enter it in the panel
Map
TheIsland
This map belongs to an expansion. Anyone who wants to join needs it in their own game.
Session name
[EU] Camp on the Beach
Maximum players
30
Mods
none
Paste the links or IDs of your mods. Above, they turn into the list for the “Mods” field – in the order you paste them.
- Changing the map
- Enter the name of the new map and restart the server. Every map saves to its own file,
TheIsland.arkfor example – the state of the old map stays where it is. - Workshop mods
- The IDs of your mods go into the “Mods” field, separated by commas. On start your server downloads them itself and keeps them up to date.
- Passwords
- A server password for closed groups and an admin password for the in-game commands. You change both in the startup settings.
- BattlEye and updates
- You switch BattlEye on or off. If your server should look for a new version of the game on every start, switch on the automatic update.
- Launch parameters
- You add extra parameters yourself, for example
-crossplay, so players from the Epic Games Store can join as well.
Your camp in the panel
Console, files, backups and permissions for your admins – all in the browser. The pictures show the real panel.
Screenshot from the Nexthosting panel (shown in German). Arrow keys switch between the areas.
Cheat sheet for the console
Whatever you type into the panel’s console goes straight to your server.
saveworld- saves the world at once
broadcast Restart in 5 minutes- shows a message to all players
listplayers- shows who is online right now
kickplayer <ID>- removes a player from the server
destroywilddinos- makes all wild creatures respawn
- Stopping saves
- When you stop the server in the panel, it saves the world first.
- Schedules
- Restarts or backups at fixed times are set up by you in the panel.
- Crash notice
- If your server crashes you are told, if you like – by e-mail or Discord.
Included for free: your server’s live status
Your players can see for themselves whether the server is up and how full it is right now.
- In Discord
- A message in your channel that updates itself: status, players, map and address. No bot needed.
- On websites and forums
- A banner as an image, for a signature for example. You copy the embed code in the panel.
Included with every game server at no extra charge, you switch it on in the panel. Player count and map are available for games with a server query, online or offline is always shown.
Example: a Discord channel shows the status message of a server with 12 of 50 players, ping, uptime and address. Below it is a forum post whose signature contains the status banner of the same server. Both show the same player count.
Frequently asked questions
What survivors want to know before ordering.
Your question is not here? Write to us
How quickly is my ARK server ready?
After payment your server sets itself up. With ARK the first setup takes longer than with small games, because the game is around 23 GB in size. You open the panel straight from your customer account.
How many players fit on my server?
No plan limits your slots. You set the maximum yourself in the startup settings, anywhere between 1 and 127.
How many your server carries smoothly depends on the map, the mods and the number of tamed creatures. If it gets tight, you add memory or cores.
Which maps can I play?
The Island, The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles and Fjordur, plus the maps of the expansions Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction and Genesis (Part 1 and 2). You enter the map in the startup settings; it applies from the next start.
For maps from an expansion, your players need that expansion in their own game.
Can I use mods from the Steam Workshop?
Yes. You enter the IDs of your mods in the startup settings, separated by commas. On start your server downloads them itself and keeps them up to date.
How do I set the rates for taming, harvesting and breeding?
With factors in two settings files: TamingSpeedMultiplier, HarvestAmountMultiplier and XPMultiplier go into GameUserSettings.ini, BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier into Game.ini. Both are in the folder ShooterGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer; you edit them in the file manager or via SFTP.
Stop the server first – ARK rewrites its settings file when it shuts down. The rates calculator puts the finished lines together for you.
What happens when ARK updates?
If you switch on the automatic update in the startup settings, your server looks for a new version of the game on every start. It keeps your mods up to date on start anyway.
How do I back up my world?
When you stop the server in the panel, it saves the world first. For backups every plan has slots of its own, two to five depending on the plan: you back up with one click or set up a schedule yourself in the panel.
Can I change, extend or cancel later?
You move to a larger plan at any time and at once, the difference is charged pro rata; to a smaller one at the end of the term. Or you add memory, cores or storage one by one with “Extend your server”.
With monthly billing you can cancel your plan monthly. Longer terms can be chosen as well; then the agreed term applies.