Renting a dedicated server

[Jackiedaytona]

Greetings,

I am thinking about renting a private server for Satisfactory for me and maybe 2 other friends to hop in on.

I've been looking and the prices for servers seems to vary wildly.

Does anyone have any recommendations on a server host that does not overcharge, and can have the servers dedicated RAM be 16gigs?

I previously bought a package from shockbyte that was advertised as the most picked option for satisfactory servers, but it came stock with 8gigs ram, and the game maxed that out and the server didnt run after about 5min. The provider did not have it clearly on their page that the game wouldnt be able to run on that with just 1 person at the time.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

[TwinShadow]

I've been searching around myself for a while and I already am familiar with several companies, one of which I do rent a VPS from right now and has the best price available currently for a VPS with 16 GB of RAM available to it.

Right now, I have a system through OVH for about $12/m because I do smaller things with it, be it Discord bot or some other small stuff I do on it that I need some persistence with. I did some pricing around of several offers and OVH has always been the best value and me personally, they've been fine. You'll be looking at around $40-$50/m if you rent from OVH for a 16 GB VPS. vCore doesn't matter too much, but I think with that system, you'll be getting 2 or 4 anyway.

Now, all that being said, this is for a bare bones Linux install on a VPS. This is not a dedicated game server like others out there, so knowledge of minimal Linux CLI is required unless one is willing to learn. I can't comment on other services that are "dedicated" to specific games because you don't have full control of the system, which is something I want. That's why I opt to go for a VPS because at least there, I have full control of the system I rent, including root access.

If that's not what you're looking for, perhaps someone out there can provide something. I hear Nitrado is semi-popular, but I've never used them, nor do I ever plan to myself.

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BisecHosting... Problem is they only give you 10gb of Ram, which does work with two people, was a little laggy at first but I upgraded it to 20GB a ram... which was an addition $1 per GB.... its kinda steep but runs so smooth now

[CryptEarth]

go with OVH - but do not go VPS but full dedicated - OVH has its smaller sub-splits SoYouStart and KimSufi - which currently get somewhat merged into OVH cloud
anyway - for a basic dedicated root server able to host a satisfactory server you're in at around 30 bucks - but it requires you to manage the whole server all by yourself
so, be aware of that an unsecured server in the wild will be the target of hackers and spammers try to exploit its weakness: an unexperienced admin
so - unless you have at least some basic skills I would recommend a managed game instance rather than your own server - its too high of a risk just to host one game server for a short time

@twinshadow
VPS just don't have the required oomph for serving as game servers (note: dedicated server here means two things - a physical server machine and the games server software) - at least not for how resource hungry satisfactory currently is as for U7. yes, they are good to learn and to have run light stuff like some bots or a small website - but its limited by a shared host system and all limits that this comes with - not suitable for game servers