UK-focused · Experimental dedicated server audited · 30 August 2026

Best StarRupture Server Hosting in 2026

StarRupture’s dedicated server is still officially marked Experimental, and that changes what a good host needs to get right. We researched the full provider market, checked realistic RAM instead of just cheap slot prices, and looked closely at save recovery, DSSettings, London availability and the community-reported Server Manager security issue.

Top choices

The four StarRupture hosts we would shortlist first

These cards use the package we would realistically buy, not automatically the cheapest teaser tier. StarRupture has a four-player cap, but factory complexity can keep growing independently of player count.

#1 · Best overall
LOW.MS logo

LOW.MS

London · 10GB standard, up to 30GB

The most game-specific StarRupture package we found, with 10GB as the starting point, London, deep save guidance and strong backup controls.

£6.73/mo10GB RAM standard · 4-player game
  • ✓ 10GB standard, expandable to 30GB
  • ✓ London plus Nuremberg, Helsinki and Warsaw
  • ✓ Up to 20 cloud backups with lock, download and restore
  • ✓ Current DSSettings.txt and save-management documentation

The £6.73 headline plan is a sensible early-game baseline, but LOW.MS itself recommends more memory for mature factories.

#2 · Best for RAM headroom
Indifferent Broccoli logo

Indifferent Broccoli

Germany (EU) · Uncapped

A strong fit for a simulation-heavy factory game because the plan limits players, not memory, and includes a no-card two-day trial.

£7.38 ($9.99)4 players · uncapped RAM
  • ✓ Uncapped RAM on the 4-player StarRupture plan
  • ✓ 2-day free trial with no card
  • ✓ Germany for EU players
  • ✓ Full file access and mod compatibility

No London-specific node on the current StarRupture order page.

#3 · Best UK reliability
Host Havoc logo

Host Havoc

London · Not public

London, owned infrastructure and offsite restore tools make this the safest conventional slot-based choice in our top three.

£7.35/mo4 slots · resource allocation not public
  • ✓ London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt
  • ✓ Owns and operates its hardware
  • ✓ NVMe with Xeon/Ryzen and DDR4/DDR5
  • ✓ Offsite backups and easy data restores

The public StarRupture product does not publish a RAM allocation, so we cannot compare memory directly with LOW.MS or Kinetic.

#4 · Best transparent RAM ladder
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Kinetic Hosting

EU available · 4GB to 124GB configurable

The cleanest resource ladder in the market. We compare 12GB rather than the tempting 4GB starter because it is a more credible persistent-factory configuration.

£9.60 ($12.99)12GB plan we compare
  • ✓ 4GB to 124GB published RAM ladder
  • ✓ 12GB costs £9.60 ($12.99)
  • ✓ NVMe and up to Ryzen 9 9950X 5.7GHz
  • ✓ 5 backup slots plus SFTP/file access

The 4GB $4.99 teaser is real, but we would not choose it for a long-lived StarRupture world.

Comparison table

15 StarRupture server hosts compared

We compare the package that makes sense for a real persistent factory, not just the cheapest advertised tier. Providers without a public RAM figure are marked clearly rather than being assigned a number we cannot verify.

#ProviderCompared offerRAM / resourcesUK / EUBest for
1 LOW.MS logoLOW.MS £6.73/mo
10GB RAM standard · 4-player game
10GB standard, up to 30GB London Best overall Visit →
2 Indifferent Broccoli logoIndifferent Broccoli £7.38 ($9.99)
4 players · uncapped RAM
Uncapped Germany (EU) Best for RAM headroom Visit →
3 Host Havoc logoHost Havoc £7.35/mo
4 slots · resource allocation not public
Not public London Best UK reliability Visit →
4 Kinetic Hosting logoKinetic Hosting £9.60 ($12.99)
12GB plan we compare
4GB to 124GB configurable EU available Best transparent RAM ladder Visit →
5 GHGame Host Bros £5.90 ($7.99)
4GB starter · 8GB and 16GB available
4GB / 8GB / 16GB London Best external challenger
6 4NetPlayers logo4NetPlayers £5.10/mo
4 players
Not public London Best cheap London slot plan Visit →
7 Nitrado logoNitrado £4.61 (€5.39)
4 slots · 30 days
Not public London Cheapest verified London offer
8 GGHOSTCAP £8.12 ($10.99)
10GB Engineer plan
6GB to 40GB Germany / Poland Best external high-frequency value
9 Gaming Deluxe logoGaming Deluxe £7.80/mo
StarRupture dedicated server
Not public London Best UK backup retention
10 Shockbyte logoShockbyte £8.86 ($11.99)
4GB+ starter
4GB+ Global locations Best mainstream automation Visit →
11 G-Portal logoG-Portal £5.13 ($6.94)
4 slots · 30 days
Not public Central Europe Best simple 4-slot EU plan
12 BisectHosting logoBisectHosting Configure live
RAM-based BisectOne
Configurable 21 locations Best recovery-focused panel Visit →
13 Wabbanode logoWabbanode £6.61 ($8.94)
StarRupture starts from public games list
6GB to 16GB+ shown London Best flexible London configurator Visit →
14 Survival Servers logoSurvival Servers about £10.34/mo
4 slots regular
Not public Germany / France Best established survival specialist Visit →
15 NNodecraft £8.81/mo regular
Lite 4GB regular $11.92
2GB to 32GB London available Best sleep-to-save budget concept

GBP is primary. USD conversions use 1 USD = £0.738825 and EUR conversions use 1 EUR = £0.855505 on 30 August 2026. Provider specifications remain provider specifications; we do not present them as measured GSH benchmarks.

How we compared

How we researched the StarRupture hosting market

We checked the established game-hosting market, then expanded into additional providers appearing in StarRupture-specific searches, server catalogues and community resources. The goal is to map the actual StarRupture hosting market rather than stop at a familiar shortlist.

Realistic resources

We compare the RAM tier we would actually choose for a growing factory, not automatically the cheapest 4GB entry plan.

Save safety

DSSettings, backups, restore, downloadable saves and restart behavior matter because the dedicated server remains experimental.

UK fit

London is preferred for UK groups, then nearby European locations. We never invent latency numbers.

Implementation quality

We reward game-specific setup guidance and penalize generic configurators that advertise impossible player counts.

Testing status

This page is a current product and implementation audit. We have prior hands-on experience with several providers from other GSH game tests, but we have not rented and benchmarked a fresh StarRupture instance from every company on this page. Where first-hand StarRupture measurements do not exist, we say what we checked and what the evidence changed in our ranking instead of inventing ping, uptime or simulation numbers.

In-depth reviews

What each StarRupture host actually gets right or wrong

The difference between these products is not just price. Some publish sensible RAM, some hide it, some have excellent save tooling, and a few use generic game-hosting templates that contradict StarRupture’s real four-player limit.

1LOW.MS logo

LOW.MS

Best overall
£6.73/mo10GB RAM standard · 4-player game
10GB standard, up to 30GBLondon

LOW.MS takes #1 because its StarRupture product is unusually aligned with the actual operational problems of the experimental dedicated server. The current package starts with 10GB RAM and can be expanded to 30GB, with London available for UK groups. That already makes the starting point more realistic than several 4GB products lower in the ranking.

The bigger advantage is the support material around persistent saves. LOW.MS has current August 2026 guides for DSSettings.txt, loading the correct save after a restart and avoiding accidental new-world creation. Its own guidance treats 10GB as an early-game baseline, 15–20GB as a more realistic target for a proper four-player factory and 20–30GB as megabase territory. Those are provider observations, not Creepy Jar’s official requirements, but they are much more useful than pretending player slots tell you the memory requirement.

Existing provider experience + live StarRupture product audit

What we checked: We re-checked the current StarRupture order path, 10GB starting allocation, London availability, backup workflow, DSSettings.txt guidance and save-management documentation. We also reviewed LOW.MS’s own August 2026 guidance for memory growth as factories become more complex.

What it taught us: LOW.MS behaves like it has actually had to support this game. The documentation covers the dangerous restart/save choices instead of stopping at ‘instant setup’, and the 10GB default is much more credible than the 4GB teaser plans elsewhere. That combination is why it wins.

Pros
  • ✓ Strongest game-specific operational documentation
  • ✓ 10GB is a credible starting allocation
  • ✓ London location
  • ✓ Excellent backup controls and save portability
Cons
  • ✗ Heavy factories may need a RAM upgrade
  • ✗ Premium CPU is an extra rather than the default
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Indifferent Broccoli

Best for RAM headroom
£7.38 ($9.99)4 players · uncapped RAM
UncappedGermany (EU)

Indifferent Broccoli ranks second because StarRupture is a perfect example of why player slots and RAM should not be treated as the same resource. The current product costs $9.99 per month, about £7.38, for four players and explicitly says RAM is uncapped. Germany is the available EU location.

The technical side also impressed us. Indifferent Broccoli maintains a public Docker setup for the experimental dedicated server and documents DSSettings, persistent saves and the safer UDP-only approach that avoids exposing the old in-game Server Manager TCP path. That does not make it an official Creepy Jar implementation, but it does show significantly more game-specific work than a generic Pterodactyl template.

Existing provider experience + live StarRupture product audit

What we checked: We verified the current 4-player $9.99 plan, uncapped-RAM wording, Germany location, trial terms and full file access. We also reviewed Indifferent Broccoli’s public StarRupture Docker implementation, including DSSettings support, save loading and its security warning around exposing the server-manager TCP path.

What it taught us: The uncapped model makes more sense here than it does for many games. StarRupture is capped at four players, but factory complexity can keep increasing long after player count stops changing. A plan that does not tie memory to slots avoids the most obvious scaling mismatch.

Pros
  • ✓ Uncapped RAM suits factory growth
  • ✓ 2-day no-card trial
  • ✓ Game-specific Docker and DSSettings work
  • ✓ Full file access
Cons
  • ✗ No London-specific deployment
  • ✗ Higher headline price than several slot-only hosts
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Host Havoc

Best UK reliability
£7.35/mo4 slots · resource allocation not public
Not publicLondon

Host Havoc is our #3 because it combines a sensible UK price with a mature hosting stack. Four slots cost £7.35 per month, London is available, and the company says it owns and operates its hardware rather than reselling capacity. The platform uses NVMe storage with Xeon and Ryzen processors and DDR4 or DDR5 memory.

The modified TCAdmin v2 panel includes a console, file manager, logs, offsite backups and restore controls. The missing piece is RAM transparency. Host Havoc does not attach a public memory figure to the StarRupture plan, so we rank it behind the two providers above even though the operational platform is stronger than many cheaper alternatives.

Existing provider experience + live StarRupture product audit

What we checked: We verified the live four-slot StarRupture product, £7.35 monthly price, London availability, owned-hardware stack, TCAdmin controls, offsite backups and restore tooling. We also checked Host Havoc’s current StarRupture setup documentation around the initial Manage Server/session flow.

What it taught us: Host Havoc is operationally reassuring, but the missing RAM number matters in this particular game. We can verify the infrastructure and recovery tooling, but we refuse to infer that a four-slot plan automatically has enough memory for a mature factory.

Pros
  • ✓ London node
  • ✓ Owned hardware
  • ✓ Offsite backup and restore
  • ✓ Mature control panel
Cons
  • ✗ No public RAM figure
  • ✗ Slot pricing does not tell us factory headroom
4Kinetic Hosting logo

Kinetic Hosting

Best transparent RAM ladder
£9.60 ($12.99)12GB plan we compare
4GB to 124GB configurableEU available

Kinetic’s StarRupture page publishes one of the clearest resource ladders we found: 4GB at $4.99, 8GB at $7.99, 10GB at $9.99, 12GB at $12.99 and larger tiers all the way to 124GB. For this ranking we use 12GB, about £9.60, rather than rewarding the 4GB headline plan.

Every package uses NVMe and advertises access to high-clock hardware up to Ryzen 9 9950X at 5.7GHz. Five backup slots, SFTP, migrations, schedules and firewall controls are included. Kinetic says locations span the US, EU and Asia-Pacific; because the StarRupture page did not expose a specific London node in our check, we list it as EU rather than assuming London at checkout.

New StarRupture addition · live product audit

What we checked: We compared the complete live RAM ladder, current prices, NVMe storage, backup allowance, full file access, migrations, scheduled tasks and the location wording on the StarRupture page.

What it taught us: Kinetic makes it very easy to compare resources honestly. The lesson is also that the cheapest plan can be the wrong comparison: 4GB exists, but a 12GB plan is a much more credible match for a factory that will keep growing.

Pros
  • ✓ Excellent RAM transparency
  • ✓ High-clock CPU options
  • ✓ Good backup/file tooling
  • ✓ Easy upgrade path
Cons
  • ✗ 4GB starter is too aggressive for our default recommendation
  • ✗ StarRupture page does not explicitly expose London
5GH

Game Host Bros

Best external challenger
£5.90 ($7.99)4GB starter · 8GB and 16GB available
4GB / 8GB / 16GBLondon

Game Host Bros is the strongest unlinked challenger in this comparison. Its live StarRupture page starts at $7.99, about £5.90, for 4GB, with 8GB and 16GB tiers also published. London, Paris and Frankfurt are available, and the provider advertises Ryzen 9 9950X hardware, NVMe, DDoS protection and daily backups.

We would choose at least the 8GB tier for a real persistent world rather than treating 4GB as the ideal plan. Free migrations, one-click restore and a seven-day money-back window are also useful. We intentionally provide no outbound commercial link because GSH does not currently have a route for this provider.

Independent market audit

What we checked: We verified the live StarRupture product, $7.99 starter, 4GB/8GB/16GB tiers, London location, Ryzen 9 hardware, daily backups, migrations and the current 7-day refund policy.

What it taught us: This is exactly why we research beyond affiliates. Game Host Bros has a legitimate, detailed StarRupture product and deserves a high editorial rank. The only reason it is not eligible for our top three is our linking rule, not a weakness in the product itself.

Pros
  • ✓ Excellent current product detail
  • ✓ London location
  • ✓ Clear RAM tiers
  • ✓ Daily backups and free migrations
Cons
  • ✗ 4GB starter is not our preferred long-term size
  • ✗ Smaller provider footprint than the largest legacy hosts
64NetPlayers logo

4NetPlayers

Best cheap London slot plan
£5.10/mo4 players
Not publicLondon

At £5.10 per month including tax, 4NetPlayers is one of the cheapest London options we verified. The current product is explicitly built around StarRupture’s four-player limit and markets a persistent 24/7 world with saved progress.

A community-maintained StarRupture security tracker lists 4NetPlayers as having deployed a mitigation on 11 February 2026 for the reported Server Manager remote-control issue. We treat that as third-party security research, not an official Creepy Jar certification. The biggest missing detail remains RAM allocation.

Live product audit + community security status check

What we checked: We verified current UK pricing, London availability, four-player positioning and the provider’s place in the community-maintained StarRupture security tracker.

What it taught us: 4NetPlayers is compelling on price, but the absent RAM number keeps it below providers that let us size the factory properly. The community tracker listing a February mitigation is a meaningful positive signal for an experimental server with a known management-path issue.

Pros
  • ✓ Very low UK price
  • ✓ London node
  • ✓ Security mitigation listed by community tracker
  • ✓ Simple four-player product
Cons
  • ✗ RAM allocation not public
  • ✗ Less transparent resource sizing than top four
7Nitrado logo

Nitrado

Cheapest verified London offer
£4.61 (€5.39)4 slots · 30 days
Not publicLondon

Nitrado currently sells four StarRupture slots for €5.39 per 30 days, about £4.61, with London and Frankfurt available. Daily backups, DDoS protection and game switching are included.

That is a very aggressive price, but Nitrado does not expose the RAM allocation on the public offer we checked. Because the GSH commercial redirect for Nitrado is also unreliable, we link only to our internal review rather than sending users through a broken commercial route.

Live product audit

What we checked: We verified the current four-slot 30-day price, London and Frankfurt locations, daily backups, DDoS protection and game-switching features.

What it taught us: Nitrado is cheaper than several smaller hosts right now, but price alone cannot beat transparent resource plans when the game can become memory-hungry. We therefore keep it mid-pack despite the excellent UK headline cost.

Pros
  • ✓ Lowest verified London price in the ranked set
  • ✓ Daily backups
  • ✓ Large established network
  • ✓ Simple 4-slot configuration
Cons
  • ✗ No public RAM allocation
  • ✗ No reliable GSH affiliate route
8G

GHOSTCAP

Best external high-frequency value
£8.12 ($10.99)10GB Engineer plan
6GB to 40GBGermany / Poland

GHOSTCAP sells StarRupture from 6GB at $6.99 up to 40GB at $40.99. We use the 10GB $10.99 plan, about £8.12, as the more useful comparison point. Ryzen 9950X, NVMe and DDoS protection are advertised across the line.

Germany and Poland make it workable for UK groups, but there is no London location. GSH also has no commercial or review route for GHOSTCAP, so the provider is intentionally unlinked on this page.

Independent market audit

What we checked: We verified the live StarRupture product, complete RAM ladder, Ryzen 9950X claim, NVMe, DDoS and current starting prices.

What it taught us: GHOSTCAP is much stronger than a generic low-price entrant because it exposes exactly how much RAM you are buying. We compare the 10GB tier instead of the $6.99 6GB starter.

Pros
  • ✓ Transparent RAM ladder
  • ✓ Ryzen 9950X hardware
  • ✓ Good 10GB pricing
  • ✓ Automatic backups
Cons
  • ✗ No London node
  • ✗ No London node
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Gaming Deluxe

Best UK backup retention
£7.80/moStarRupture dedicated server
Not publicLondon

Gaming Deluxe lists its StarRupture dedicated server from £7.80 per month. London is available alongside Paris and Frankfurt, and the provider’s current stack includes full FTP, offsite backups and modern CPU/NVMe positioning.

The lack of a public RAM number prevents a higher ranking. For StarRupture we want to know whether a factory can grow into the plan, not just that the plan has four slots. Still, the price and seven-day offsite backup story make it a credible UK option.

Live product audit

What we checked: We verified the dedicated-server listing, current £7.80 price and the provider’s current StarRupture/hosting feature set, including European locations and offsite backup positioning.

What it taught us: Gaming Deluxe earns its place through recovery and UK location rather than resource transparency. Seven-day offsite retention is more useful in Early Access than another vague ‘high performance’ badge.

Pros
  • ✓ London location
  • ✓ Seven-day offsite backups
  • ✓ Good UK price
  • ✓ Full FTP
Cons
  • ✗ No public RAM figure
  • ✗ Commercial route is internal-review only
10Shockbyte logo

Shockbyte

Best mainstream automation
£8.86 ($11.99)4GB+ starter
4GB+Global locations

Shockbyte’s current StarRupture package starts at $11.99, about £8.86, with 4GB+ RAM. Automatic backups, full file access, DDoS protection and a 72-hour self-serve refund are included.

The feature set is fine; the sizing is what pulls it down. StarRupture’s player cap is only four, yet factory state can keep growing. We would upgrade above 4GB for a serious persistent world, so the starter price is not as competitive as it first looks.

Live product audit

What we checked: We verified the current $11.99 product, 4GB+ RAM headline, automatic backups, file access, refund policy and StarRupture-specific positioning.

What it taught us: Shockbyte is a useful sanity check for the whole market. The product is real and polished, but a 4GB headline tier should not be allowed to look equivalent to a 10GB or 12GB comparison just because every server supports the same four players.

Pros
  • ✓ Mainstream easy setup
  • ✓ Automatic backups
  • ✓ Full file access
  • ✓ Clear refund window
Cons
  • ✗ 4GB headline plan is too small for our default recommendation
  • ✗ More expensive than several larger-memory alternatives
11G-Portal logo

G-Portal

Best simple 4-slot EU plan
£5.13 ($6.94)4 slots · 30 days
Not publicCentral Europe

G-Portal currently charges $6.94 per 30 days for a four-slot StarRupture server, about £5.13, with Central Europe selected in the product we checked. The page correctly caps the game at four players.

G-Portal also advertises DDoS protection and substantial backup space, but does not publish the RAM allocation for this plan. We link to the internal GSH review rather than a direct commercial route.

Live product audit

What we checked: We verified current 4-slot pricing, Central Europe location, four-player cap wording and the provider’s StarRupture Early Access positioning.

What it taught us: G-Portal gets the player limit right and the price is good, but the absence of RAM detail means we cannot tell whether the plan is sized for late-game automation. It is a budget choice, not a resource-transparent one.

Pros
  • ✓ Low four-slot price
  • ✓ Correct four-player product positioning
  • ✓ European location
  • ✓ Established panel
Cons
  • ✗ No public RAM figure
  • ✗ No direct GSH commercial route
12BisectHosting logo

BisectHosting

Best recovery-focused panel
Configure liveRAM-based BisectOne
Configurable21 locations

BisectHosting offers instant StarRupture deployment, three days of included server backups, free DDoS protection and 21 worldwide locations. The control panel includes instance duplication, file management and player-management tools.

The unofficial StarRupture security tracker lists BisectHosting as mitigated on 23 January 2026. We could not retrieve a trustworthy current numeric price from the live product page, so the table says ‘Configure live’ rather than borrowing an old third-party price.

Live product audit + community security status check

What we checked: We verified the current StarRupture product, three-day backup retention, 21-location network, instance manager, file access and player-management tooling. We also checked the community vulnerability tracker status.

What it taught us: Bisect is operationally strong and unusually well suited to Early Access recovery. The only reason it is not higher is price transparency: the current public page rendered the pricing fields without a usable numeric value in our audit.

Pros
  • ✓ Strong recovery tooling
  • ✓ 21 locations
  • ✓ Community security mitigation listed
  • ✓ Good file and instance management
Cons
  • ✗ Current numeric price not exposed in our crawl
  • ✗ Only three backup days included by default
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Wabbanode

Best flexible London configurator
£6.61 ($8.94)StarRupture starts from public games list
6GB to 16GB+ shownLondon

Wabbanode’s public games list shows StarRupture from $8.94, about £6.60, and its current docs confirm London alongside Germany, France and Finland. Help pages cover initial Manage Server setup, direct IP connection and automatic daily backups.

The problem is the live configurator. It maps 6GB, 8GB, 10GB and higher tiers to player counts far above StarRupture’s actual four-player cap. That appears to be a generic template rather than game-specific sizing. We ignore those player estimates and rank Wabbanode on the underlying hosting product instead.

Live product audit

What we checked: We verified the live StarRupture setup/join documentation, London availability, public $8.94 starting price and the current configurator’s RAM/player guidance.

What it taught us: The hosting platform itself is credible; the page template is the problem. A configurator saying 8GB is for roughly 32 StarRupture players is clearly not game-specific advice. That costs Wabbanode ranking points because sizing guidance is part of what a managed host is selling.

Pros
  • ✓ London location
  • ✓ Flexible RAM choices
  • ✓ Good current setup docs
  • ✓ Daily backup retention
Cons
  • ✗ Generic sizing guidance contradicts the real player cap
  • ✗ Configurator output looks unfinished in places
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Survival Servers

Best established survival specialist
about £10.34/mo4 slots regular
Not publicGermany / France

Survival Servers lists StarRupture as a current new game and prices it on a slot basis. Four slots work out around $14 per month at the regular rate, roughly £10.34, with Germany and France among the European locations.

The provider offers its custom panel, location switching and standard versus premium infrastructure options, but does not expose the kind of RAM detail we want for this game. It remains a legitimate option, just not a standout one.

Live product audit

What we checked: We verified that StarRupture is currently live in Survival Servers’ catalogue, current per-slot positioning, European locations and the standard/premium infrastructure model.

What it taught us: Survival Servers is credible but not especially compelling on current StarRupture value. The product exists and the survival-hosting experience is real, yet the package is harder to size and more expensive than the top choices.

Pros
  • ✓ Established survival-game host
  • ✓ European locations
  • ✓ Custom panel
  • ✓ Flexible datacenter model
Cons
  • ✗ No London node
  • ✗ Weaker resource transparency
  • ✗ Higher regular price
15N

Nodecraft

Best sleep-to-save budget concept
£8.81/mo regularLite 4GB regular $11.92
2GB to 32GBLondon available

Nodecraft’s Lite 4GB plan is $8.34 for the first month and $11.92 regular, about £8.81 at renewal. Premium starts much higher but stays online 24/7. The platform supports RAM configurations from 2GB to 32GB and offers London among a broad location network.

We rank Nodecraft lower because the cheaper Lite product explicitly shuts down when unused. That undermines one of the main reasons to rent a StarRupture server in the first place: a shared factory that remains available independently of one player’s session.

Independent market audit

What we checked: We compared Nodecraft’s current Lite and Premium StarRupture products, first-month versus renewal pricing, RAM options and always-on behavior.

What it taught us: This is a good example of why headline prices need context. A sleeping budget server can be fine for friends who only play together, but it is not the same product as a 24/7 world where anyone can keep building independently.

Pros
  • ✓ London location
  • ✓ Wide RAM range
  • ✓ Cloud backup tooling
  • ✓ Interesting trial/budget model
Cons
  • ✗ Lite tier sleeps when unused
  • ✗ Premium always-on pricing is much higher
  • ✗ Lite pricing is harder to compare directly with always-on hosting
Full market coverage

Every StarRupture host we checked

We checked the wider StarRupture hosting market on 30 August 2026. Where a provider has no verified managed StarRupture product, we say so rather than filling the comparison with unrelated VPS offers.

ProviderPriceSlots / RAMCPU
Indifferent Broccoli£7.38 ($9.99)4 players / uncapped RAMNot public
LOW.MS£6.73/mo4 players / 10GB standardRyzen 7950X / 9950X optional
Host Havoc£7.35/mo4 slots / RAM not publicXeon / Ryzen
DatHostNo verified plan
Kinetic HostingFrom £3.69 ($4.99)4GB-124GB RAMUp to Ryzen 9 9950X 5.7GHz
GTX GamingConfigure live4 players / RAM configurableIntel 13900K / Ryzen 5800X-7950X3D
Apex HostingNo verified plan
Gaming Deluxe£7.80/mo4 players / RAM not publicIntel / AMD 5GHz+
GGServersNo verified plan
Shockbyte£8.86 ($11.99)4GB+ RAMHigh-frequency CPU
Sparked HostNo verified plan
ScalaCubeNo verified plan
AleForgeNo verified plan
G-Portal£5.13 ($6.94)4 slots / RAM not publicNot public
HostingerNo verified plan
Nitrado£4.61 (€5.39)4 slots / RAM not publicNot public
Wabbanode£6.60 ($8.94)6GB-16GB+ RAMRyzen, model varies
Godlike HostNo verified plan
4NetPlayers£5.10/mo4 players / RAM not publicIntel / AMD
Aim2GameNo verified plan
Epic HostsNo verified plan
GameServers.comNo verified plan
LevelUp HostingNo active service
Grid HostingNo verified plan
Survival Servers≈£10.34/mo4 slots / RAM not publicStandard / Premium hardware
BisectHostingConfigure liveRAM configurableNot public
Game Host Bros£5.90 ($7.99)4GB / 8GB / 16GBRyzen 9 9950X
GHOSTCAP£5.16 ($6.99)6GB-40GB RAMRyzen 9 9950X
Nodecraft£8.81/mo regular2GB-32GB RAMNot public
MineStrator£11.97 (€13.99)8GB starterAMD EPYC 7543P
PingPerfectConfigure live10 slots / 9GB standardRyzen / EPYC, 4.5GHz+
LogicServers£5.19 ($7.02) ex VAT4 slots / RAM not public4GHz+ CPU
Citadel Servers£6.99/moUp to 4 players / RAM not publicHigh-performance Xeon
CreeperHost£10.25 ($13.87)Premium / Pro, RAM variesHybrid VPS / dedicated CPU
GG Host£4.37 ($5.92)4 slots / RAM not publicModern high-performance CPU
PingPlayers£7.95 ($10.76)4GB starterHigh-frequency CPU
ServerwaveFrom £4.42 ($5.98)2GB+ scalable RAMAMD EPYC 4345P, up to 5.5GHz
Streamline ServersA$11.25/mo6-8GB RAMHPGS hardware / model not public
Gravel HostNo verified plan
XGamingServerNo verified plan
Pine HostingNo verified plan
BerryByteNo verified plan
PebbleHostNo verified plan
IcedHostNo verified plan
CybranceeNo verified plan
RespawnHostNo verified plan
Solace ServersNo verified plan
HostKeyNo verified plan
FusioraNo verified plan
Dedicated server reality

StarRupture has an official dedicated server, but it is still Experimental

Creepy Jar’s dedicated-server tool is Steam App 3809400. It is free to download, currently Windows-only, launches through StarRuptureServerEOS.exe and uses Epic Online Services technology. That Experimental label matters because server behavior has continued to change throughout Early Access.

Windows-only server tool

The current official dedicated-server app lists Windows support. Linux hosts commonly rely on compatibility or container approaches rather than a native Linux server binary.

Four-player co-op

The game is built around up to four players. Provider configurators advertising eight, 32 or 64 StarRupture players are not game-specific sizing guidance.

Early Access changes

Update 1 expanded the world and factory systems, while Update 2: Quality of Life is still forthcoming with its launch date to be announced.

RAM and factory scaling

Do not size a StarRupture server by player slots

Creepy Jar has not published a simple official dedicated-server RAM table that we could verify. Provider guidance therefore has to be treated as operational evidence, not official requirements. The useful pattern is that mature factories can need materially more memory even though the player cap never moves above four.

Our comparison baseline: 10–12GB is a more credible place to compare persistent StarRupture hosting than a 4GB teaser. LOW.MS ships 10GB and says heavier four-player factories can move into the 15–20GB range. Indifferent Broccoli removes the fixed RAM cap entirely. Kinetic makes the tradeoff transparent with a published 4GB-to-124GB ladder.
4GB starter

Several hosts sell it. We treat it as a budget or early-world option, not proof that a mature factory will be comfortable.

10–12GB

Our practical comparison range for a normal persistent world because it offers more breathing room without paying megabase prices.

15–30GB+

Useful when the factory becomes simulation-heavy. This is provider guidance territory, so monitor real usage rather than following a fixed player-count formula.

Security & DSSettings

The Server Manager vulnerability is a real hosting-quality test

An unofficial, community-maintained StarRupture security project reported a remote-control issue in the older in-game Server Manager TCP path. Its last provider-status table from 14 February 2026 lists 4NetPlayers, BisectHosting, Citadel Servers and AMP as mitigated or not vulnerable. This is community security research, not an official Creepy Jar CVE certification, so we describe it exactly that way.

Why DSSettings.txt matters

The safer community approach is to configure the server with DSSettings.txt and expose only the gameplay UDP port where possible, rather than keeping the old Server Manager TCP path open. Indifferent Broccoli’s public Docker implementation explicitly warns about this distinction.

Save configuration is also unforgiving: StartNewGame=true should not remain enabled after the initial world creation if the goal is to keep loading an existing world. This is why current save and restart documentation scores highly in our ranking.

Configuration

The DSSettings.txt values worth understanding

{ “SessionName”: “YourFactory”, “SaveGameInterval”: “300”, “StartNewGame”: “false”, “LoadSavedGame”: “true”, “SaveGameName”: “AutoSave0.sav” }

The exact file and startup flow can change while the dedicated server remains experimental. The point is not to copy these values blindly: it is to understand that restart behavior is controlled separately from the four-player game limit. Back up the world before changing startup or save settings.

Early Access update risk

Update 1 made factory scale more important, and Update 2 is still coming

Creepy Jar released Update 1 in April 2026 with a larger playable area, new zones and resources, ziplines, a Development Station, higher-tier buildings and more than 40 new items and recipes. The current Update 2: Quality of Life roadmap includes building copy/paste, production-per-minute UI, autosave warnings and other factory-management improvements, with the release date still to be announced.

Recent developer notes have also continued to mention crash and dedicated-server session fixes. That is why we rank backups and recoverability so heavily. Early Access hosting is partly about surviving the next patch without sacrificing a factory that took dozens of hours to build.

Self-hosting

Can you self-host a StarRupture dedicated server?

Yes. The official experimental tool is free on Steam as App 3809400, but the current native server is Windows-only. Community Docker projects can wrap the SteamCMD installation for Linux-based hosts, although that is a community solution rather than a native Creepy Jar Linux binary.

Self-hosting is most attractive if: you already have spare hardware, a public WAN setup that the game can reach, and you are comfortable managing ports, DSSettings, save files and Early Access updates yourself. Renting is easier when you care more about 24/7 access, remote backups and letting someone else handle the experimental server’s rough edges.
FAQ

StarRupture server hosting FAQ

LOW.MS is our current #1 overall pick because its StarRupture product starts at 10GB RAM, offers London, includes strong cloud backup controls and has unusually detailed current documentation for DSSettings.txt and save recovery. Indifferent Broccoli is #2 for uncapped RAM, while Host Havoc is #3 for London, owned hardware and offsite restore tooling.
Creepy Jar has not published a simple official dedicated-server RAM table that we could verify. Provider guidance varies dramatically. LOW.MS starts at 10GB and suggests 15-20GB for heavier four-player factories, while other hosts sell 4GB starters. We therefore treat roughly 10-12GB as a more credible comparison point for a persistent world and recommend monitoring actual usage as the factory grows.
StarRupture is designed around four-player online co-op. We do not trust hosting configurators that advertise guidance for eight, 32 or 64 StarRupture players, because those figures conflict with the game’s current player limit.
Yes, but it is explicitly experimental. The current StarRupture Dedicated Server tool is Steam App 3809400, is free to download, and currently supports Windows. It runs StarRuptureServerEOS.exe and uses Epic Online Services technology.
DSSettings.txt is a JSON configuration file used by the experimental dedicated server to control the session name, save interval and whether the server should create a new world or load an existing save. A bad StartNewGame setting can create serious restart/save problems, which is why we value hosts that document it clearly.
A community-maintained StarRupture security project reported a remote-control issue in the older in-game Server Manager TCP path. Its tracker lists mitigations for 4NetPlayers, BisectHosting, Citadel Servers and AMP by February 2026. This is community security research rather than an official Creepy Jar security certification. We favor implementations that use DSSettings and avoid exposing unnecessary TCP management ports.
Not automatically. Four players is the game cap, but factory complexity can continue growing regardless of player count. Several hosts sell 4GB plans, while other providers recommend materially more memory for mature factories. We compare realistic resource packages instead of treating the cheapest teaser tier as the best value.
Yes, with hosts that provide save/file access. StarRupture save files can be uploaded to the dedicated server’s SaveGames directory and loaded through the server configuration. We strongly prefer providers that also let you download backups so you are never locked into one host.
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