About Us

Game server hosting since August 2012, on a control panel we build and run ourselves.

  1. 2026

    Building the servers the games didn't ship

    Subnautica 2, Grounded 2 and Solarpunk all launched without dedicated server support. Instead of waiting, we built our own: custom dedicated servers and launchers, engineered in-house, with the server source published on GitHub. Hytale went live on our servers on launch day in January. Palworld hit 1.0 in July, and every Palworld server got Pal Command, our free live map and admin console. We added over 20 new games and pushed the catalog past 100.

    The biggest project in our fourteen-year history is rolling out now: Panel V2, a ground-up rebuild of the control panel we have been developing since 2014.

    By the numbers
    100+Games in our catalog
    7Open-source projects on GitHub
    Most hosted
    • Palworld
    • Windrose
    • Hytale
    • Conan Exiles: Enhanced
    • Soulmask
    • ARK
    • Subnautica 2
  2. 2025

    Setting the stage for Hytale

    Hytale characters outside a timbered village house
    Hytale. Pre-orders opened in November, ahead of its January launch.

    After years of waiting, Hytale finally had a launch date. We closed out the year getting ready: server pre-orders opened in November, and our Hytale Creator Program went live before the game ever shipped. The control panel got its biggest overhaul in years, with a full dark theme, a new in-browser File Manager, smarter backups, and dozens of quality-of-life upgrades throughout. Palworld added PlayStation 5 crossplay, putting PS5 and PC players on the same servers. Nine new games joined the lineup, Hollow Knight: Silksong among them.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • Palworld
    • Valheim
    • Minecraft
    • Abiotic Factor
    • Enshrouded
    • 7 Days to Die
  3. 2024

    A record-breaking year for survival gaming

    Palworld and Enshrouded key art side by side
    Palworld and Enshrouded, both launched in January 2024.

    Palworld took the gaming world by storm in January 2024, reaching over 2 million concurrent Steam players and becoming one of the fastest-selling games in history. We scaled our infrastructure to meet unprecedented demand. Enshrouded also launched the same month, offering 16-player co-op survival gameplay. We added ARK: Survival Ascended, S&box, GTA V: FiveM and The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria to the lineup as well.

    Most hosted
    • Palworld
    • Enshrouded
    • ARK
    • Valheim
    • Minecraft
    • 7 Days to Die
    • Soulmask
  4. 2023

    Seventeen new worlds

    Sons of the Forest, Counter-Strike 2, Astroneer and Don't Starve Together key art
    Sons of the Forest led a year of seventeen new games.

    Sons of the Forest arrived in February and players poured in, making it one of the year's most-hosted games almost overnight. Sixteen more games followed, seventeen in all, the most we had ever added in a single year.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • Valheim
    • 7 Days to Die
    • Sons of the Forest
    • Icarus
    • ARK on PS4
    • Conan Exiles
  5. 2022

    A decade of dedication

    Survival Servers 10 year anniversary badge
    Ten years of Survival Servers.

    Survival Servers celebrated its 10-year anniversary in August 2022. A decade of providing high-quality game server hosting to communities worldwide. We continued to build on the momentum from Valheim's success, investing in infrastructure upgrades and expanding our hardware capabilities to prepare for the next generation of survival games.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • Valheim
    • 7 Days to Die
    • V Rising
    • ARK on PS4
    • DayZ
    • Minecraft
  6. 2021

    Open world redefined, setting the new standard

    Valheim vikings standing before a longship
    Valheim, the year’s breakout survival game.

    Valheim brought about a dramatic shift in the future of survival genre gaming. Not only did it break record sales, it defined how early access should be. Procedural generation with endless content possibilities met with a beautiful open world set the mark for the future. We supported our largest concurrent service total and deployed a record 36,000 services.

    Year in review, by the numbers
    36,000Game servers deployed
    15,000,000Pageviews (Google Analytics)
    Most hosted
    • Valheim
    • ARK
    • Rust
    • ARK on PS4
    • Minecraft
    • 7 Days to Die
    • Conan Exiles
  7. 2020

    Paving the road for the future of gaming

    Epic Games Store and ARK logos
    Unreal Engine 5 and the road to ARK 2.

    Achieved our highest server FPS with our new line of Xeon E processors. New performance monitoring tool released. ARK celebrated 5 years and was released as a free title on Epic Games Store. Coupled with more than usual players at home due to COVID-19 we saw major growth. Unreal Engine 5 was announced. A fun Vin Diesel backed cinematic for the all new ARK 2 was announced at the Game Awards in December.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • ARK on PS4
    • Conan Exiles
    • Minecraft
    • Rust
    • 7 Days to Die
    • DayZ
  8. 2019

    7 years later..

    ARK Valguero landscape next to an AMD Ryzen 9 badge
    Valguero on new Ryzen hardware, our biggest performance jump yet.

    Brought on AMD as a secondary chip provider to our Intel platform. Rolled out the Ryzen 9 and EPYC server processors to our high performance lineup. Maintained focus of single threaded performance for all of our new game line ups. ARK: Survival Evolved launched a new third party map, Valguero. Added Outlaws of the Old West, Mordhau, Rune 2, and Day of Dragons.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • ARK on PS4
    • Atlas
    • Conan Exiles
    • Rust
    • 7 Days to Die
    • DayZ
  9. 2018

    Our 6th year in business!

    Content creator partners we worked with in 2018
    A few of the creators we worked with in 2018.

    Added 15 new games and established content creator partnerships with over 25 million total followers reach (summit1g, dasMEHDI, PeteZahHut, Canal do Pigman and more). Partnered officially with Frostkeep Studio's on their Rend title to deliver high performance official servers for Unreal Engine 4.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • Conan Exiles
    • ARK on PS4
    • Rust
    • 7 Days to Die
    • PixARK
    • Atlas
  10. 2017

    Staff increase, 24/7 support, PlayStation 4 servers

    PlayStation 4 and 24/7 service badges
    PlayStation 4 servers, and support moving to 24/7.

    Certification for ARK: Survival Evolved game servers for PlayStation 4 allows expansion to console game server hosting. Staff expands to 8 full-time employees for 24/7 coverage to support growing global customer base. Added Ylands, Stationeers, Citadel: Forged With Fire, Dark and Light, Blackwake, and Conan Exiles to game service offering.

    Year in review, by the numbers
    26,000Game servers deployed
    8,000,000Pageviews (Google Analytics)
    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • Conan Exiles
    • Rust
    • 7 Days to Die
    • ARK on PS4
    • Dark and Light
    • Arma 3
  11. 2016

    New development team, staff increase

    The Survival Servers team at TwitchCon
    TwitchCon — left is Steven W, middle Ryan, right Peter.

    Development of in-house control panel scales to new development team. Support technician staff increased. Added 7 Days to Die and Fragmented to game service offering.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • Rust
    • 7 Days to Die
    • Arma 3
    • Arma 2
    • Unturned
    • Hurtworld
  12. 2015

    New games, new services, new look

    Sacramento, California skyline and Tower Bridge
    Sacramento, home of our first West Coast location.

    Headquarters in Sacramento, California open. Support service expands to include a mod install service for ARMA 2 and ARMA 3 game servers. Multiple new games rolled out on in-house panel. Website re-designed. ARK: Survival Evolved becomes largest game hosted breaking company records. Added Hurtworld, Killing Floor 2, and Reign of Kings to game service offering.

    Most hosted
    • ARK
    • Arma 3
    • Arma 2
    • Rust
    • Unturned
    • Reign of Kings
    • Hurtworld
  13. 2014

    In-house control panel roll out

    The first in-house Survival Servers control panel
    The first control panel we built ourselves.

    In 2014, a custom control panel was developed in-house to cater directly towards the complex requirements behind popular ARMA 2 and ARMA 3 mods. The panel was a response to the lack of flexibility popular game panels have offered for years. Allowed us to expand to more games, more complex modding setups, and a higher level of direct customization.

    The Survival Servers anthem: high quality hardware and competitive pricing on our own custom game server control panel.

    The Survival Servers slogan and how it all began.
    Most hosted
    • Arma 2
    • Arma 3
    • Unturned
  14. 2013

    A year of growth and expansion

    Rack-mounted servers in a datacenter
    More racks, more games, more players.

    Growth led to expansion of our support team to create a 24/7 support presence. Expanded to our European locations in both Germany and France. Invested in hardware and began colocation expansion in an investment in our hardware infrastructure. Added our first game outside of Arma 2: DayZ mod — Rust!

  15. 2012

    The Survival Servers story begins

    Survival Servers co-founders Ryan and Chad
    Left is Ryan (co-founder, CEO), right Chad (co-founder).

    Survival Servers was started in August 2012 by two friends. As one of the original hosting providers for the original ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead mod "DayZ," (the obsession that started it all) Survival Servers quickly became a known brand due to the competitive pricing and full-fledged feature set of their custom DayZ Tools, Private Hive scripts, and easy integrations with other popular Arma 2 mods.

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