Host your own game servers on a Ryzen 9 9950X KVM VPS in Frankfurt, Germany — low ping across Europe, Gen4 NVMe, free anycast DDoS protection, and full root. Hourly billing from $6.72/mo — free trial.
A Gaming VPS in Frankfurt lets you self-host game servers on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hardware with low ping across Europe. The 9950X's high single-thread clock is what keeps games like Minecraft, Rust and FiveM responsive under load. Every plan includes free always-on anycast DDoS protection, NVMe storage, full root access and hourly billing, from $6.72 per month.
A high-clock KVM VPS with the network protection game servers actually need — you install and run the server yourself.
Top-tier single-thread speed — the metric that keeps a game server's tick loop on schedule under load.
Always-on L3/L4/L7 mitigation on every plan. Game servers are the #1 DDoS target, so it's included free.
Install any game server, mods and tooling you want. Linux by default, Windows Server or your own ISO on request.
Fast world and chunk loading on NVMe, hourly billing with a monthly cap, and a free trial before you commit.
If your players are in Europe, the server should be too. Frankfurt is where the continent's traffic meets.
Frankfurt sits at the centre of European connectivity with extensive peering, so a server here is only a handful of milliseconds from players in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Poland and beyond. For fast-paced shooters and racing, those saved milliseconds are the difference between a clean hit and a rubber-band.
Instead of standing up separate boxes per country, a single Frankfurt VPS gives a pan-European clan or community a fair, roughly even ping for everyone. It is the natural meeting point for a guild that spans Western, Central and Northern Europe.
Player accounts, chat logs and stats stay inside Europe. If your community cares about where its data lives, or you simply prefer keeping EU user data on EU soil, a Frankfurt VPS keeps that story clean.
Frankfurt is our primary European site and joins Toronto and Singapore on one anycast anti-DDoS network, so routing stays resilient and traffic keeps flowing even when the wider Internet gets noisy.
Cores look good on a spec sheet. Clock speed is what your players actually feel.
Minecraft, Rust, ARK, Valheim, FiveM and most others advance the world on a single main thread running at a fixed tick rate — 20 ticks a second for Minecraft, higher for competitive shooters. That loop mostly runs on one CPU core. Add more players, mobs, entities and physics, and that one core has to do more work inside the same tick budget.
When the main thread can't finish a tick in time, the whole server falls behind. In Minecraft you see it as low "TPS"; in a shooter it's registration and rubber-banding. This is a single-thread problem, so a box with a huge core count but a modest per-core clock does not help — the busy core is still the bottleneck.
The Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) runs up to 5.7GHz with class-leading single-thread throughput. That headroom is what keeps ticks on schedule as your player count and entity count climb, which is precisely why the chassis for these machines was chosen with FiveM and Minecraft responsiveness in mind.
16 cores and 32 threads mean the main loop gets its fast core while networking, plugins, backups, world pre-generation and a voice server run on the others. High clock plus real core count is the combination a busy modded server wants.
Fast storage for world loading, and cores that stay yours.
Chunk generation, world saves, map loads and mod-pack startup all hammer the disk. Gen4 NVMe keeps that I/O quick and consistent, so a player crossing into unexplored terrain isn't waiting on a slow SATA volume to stream in new chunks.
Your VM runs under KVM with resources allocated to you. That means one busy neighbour on the node can't steal your cycles and stall your tick loop — a common cause of unexplained lag on oversold, container-based "game hosting".
High-bandwidth DDR5 keeps a memory-hungry modded server or a large player roster fed. Big mod packs and plenty of loaded chunks want RAM headroom and the bandwidth to move it quickly.
Start small on a VM-1C-2G test box and move up to a VM-8C-32G as the community grows. Bigger plans give the extra cores and RAM a heavily modded or multi-instance setup needs.
This is an unmanaged, self-service VPS. You get the box and complete control; you install the game server.
With full root on a clean VM you can run Minecraft (vanilla, Paper, Forge, Fabric), Rust, CS2, FiveM, ARK, Valheim, Terraria or anything else that runs on Linux or Windows Server. There is no preset list — if it installs on a normal server, it installs here.
Load the exact mod pack, plugin set, map rotation and tuning you want, and keep full control of your files over SSH or RDP. Nothing is locked behind a panel's supported list, and no one else decides which versions you can run.
Linux distributions are the default, Windows Server is available on request, and you can upload your own custom ISO. Bring a pre-baked image or build the environment up exactly the way your server likes it.
To be clear, we do not provide a game control panel, one-click installers or pre-built server images. You set the server up yourself. That trade buys you total flexibility and full ownership of the machine, with no managed layer in the way.
Spin up for a weekend, shut down after — pay only for the hours it ran.
Billing is hourly with a monthly cap. A VM you run for a Saturday tournament costs only for those hours; a VM you leave up all month never bills more than its listed monthly price. There is no long-term contract to sign.
Stand up a beefy box for a launch weekend, a LAN, a modded season or a one-off tournament, then tear it down when it's over. This is exactly the pattern hourly pricing is built for, and it keeps a seasonal community's costs honest.
Provisioning is automated in the Nexus panel. After signup you order a Frankfurt VM and it comes up in minutes with your chosen image, full root or administrator access, and console access, ready for you to install the game server.
Top up by card, PayPal or Bitcoin. Prices are shown in USD and are tax-inclusive on the panel, so the number you see is the number you pay.
Create an account on the Nexus panel, start a free trial, and deploy a Frankfurt VM in minutes. Pick a Linux image (or Windows Server / your own ISO), SSH in, and install your game server the way you want it. Free anycast DDoS is on from the moment the VM boots — nothing to configure. Scale the plan up as your community grows, or shut it down after the event and pay only for the hours it ran.
Monthly pricing in USD, tax-inclusive. Hourly billing from $0.010/hr with a monthly cap. Every plan runs on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X with Gen4 NVMe, full root, and free anycast DDoS protection.
| Plan | vCPU / RAM | Good For | From | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VM-1C-2G | 1 vCPU / 2 GB | Small vanilla / test server | $6.72/mo | Order → |
| VM-2C-2G | 2 vCPU / 2 GB | Small community server | $10.08/mo | Order → |
| VM-2C-4G | 2 vCPU / 4 GB | Modded server, small roster | $14.11/mo | Order → |
| VM-4C-8G | 4 vCPU / 8 GB | Busy modded / mid-size clan | $27.55/mo | Order → |
| VM-6C-16G | 6 vCPU / 16 GB | Large community / event box | $55.10/mo | Order → |
| VM-8C-32G | 8 vCPU / 32 GB | Heavy modded / multi-instance | $110.21/mo | Order → |
Straight answers on hardware, game servers, protection and billing.
The hardware and the network. A gaming VPS wants a high single-thread clock, because most game-server tick loops run on one core, and it wants DDoS protection, because game servers are heavily targeted. Our Frankfurt VMs give you a 5.7GHz Ryzen 9 9950X, dedicated KVM resources, NVMe, and free anycast DDoS on every plan.
Anything you can install on Linux or Windows Server. Customers commonly run Minecraft, Rust, CS2, FiveM, ARK, Valheim and Terraria, but because you get full root you are not limited to a preset list. You install and configure the server software yourself, exactly as you would on any bare-metal box.
Yes, on every plan at no extra cost. Always-on anycast SucuraGuard mitigation filters L3/L4 volumetric floods and L7 attacks before they reach your VM. Game servers are one of the most attacked service types online, so we include protection by default rather than selling it as a paid add-on.
Most game servers advance the world on a single main loop that runs on one core, at a fixed tick rate like 20 or 64 ticks per second. If that one thread can't finish a tick in time, everyone feels lag. A faster core, like the 9950X at up to 5.7GHz, keeps ticks on schedule with more players and entities.
Yes. Billing is hourly from $0.010/hr with a monthly cap, so you can spin up a VM for a weekend tournament or LAN event and shut it down afterward, paying only for the hours it ran. A VM left running all month never bills more than its listed monthly price.
You set it up yourself. This is an unmanaged, full-root KVM VPS, not a managed game panel. There are no one-click game installers or pre-built server images. You get a clean Linux or Windows Server VM, or your own custom ISO, and you install and configure the game server the way you want it.
Ryzen 9 9950X, NVMe, free anycast DDoS, full root — provision in minutes, or start a free trial.
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