🇬🇧 UK GUIDES

Learn About Game Server Hosting

No jargon, no upsell. Five plain-English guides covering what actually matters before you rent a server — written so you can make a genuinely informed decision, not just pick the first result.

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Five guides, in the order most people need them

New to hosting? Start with guide 1. Already renting somewhere and want to check you’re not overpaying or under-protected? Jump straight to hardware or security.

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1. What Is Game Server Hosting?
The absolute basics — what a game server actually is, why you’d rent one instead of hosting from home, and what “24/7 uptime” really buys you.
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2. Dedicated Hosting Explained
Dedicated vs shared vs VPS — what you’re actually renting, why “dedicated” gets used loosely in marketing, and when it genuinely matters.
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3. Hardware Requirements Guide
CPU clock speed vs core count, DDR5 vs DDR4, NVMe vs SATA — what actually affects your server’s performance and what’s just a spec sheet number.
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4. Security for Game Servers
What DDoS protection actually is, why “we have DDoS protection” means very different things between providers, and what else you should ask about.
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5. VPS Hosting Explained
What a VPS actually is, how it differs from managed game hosting, and when the extra control is worth the extra setup work.
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About the author
Linus — author at Game Server Hosting
Linus GSH Founder

SEO & Digital Marketer · Avid survival gamer · Sweden/UK

I'm an avid gamer from Sweden with a lot of time spent in England in the last 5 years who loves survival games — ARK, Palworld, Valheim, Sons of the Forest, V Rising and plenty of WoW and Dota 2 on the side. I created this site to help other gamers find the best server hosting without wasting money on laggy providers.

By day I work in SEO and Google Ads, helping businesses rank and convert. I've been hosting game servers since the Minecraft + Hamachi LAN days and have learned the hard way what separates a good host from a bad one. Every ranking on this site is based on real testing and price-to-performance — no paid placements.