Factorio Server Hosting: dedicated server from $2.30/mo

The best Factorio server hosting gives you control over server-settings.json, SFTP access to your saves, backups, and lets you change plan without losing anything as the factory grows. Our four Factorio hosting plans tick all of these, from $2.30 to $17.38 per month, with support that answers 24/7.

The Factorio dedicated server is distributed for free by Wube Software: you can host it at home, but you need a Linux machine running around the clock, a port opened on your router and a connection that holds. We offer neither free hosting nor a free trial. Renting a Factorio server from us starts at $2.30 per month, with no commitment, a fixed address and backups.

With a host like OuiHeberg, choose a plan and a country, then pay. The official dedicated server installs by itself, with no Steam account. Then set the server name and password in the OuiPanel variables, start it, and join from the Multiplayer menu of the game, with its address and port.Read the setup guide →

The official dedicated server is light and installs by itself, with no account to connect: it is online in under a minute after it is created.

The latest stable version by default. The Factorio version field, in the OuiPanel variables, also accepts the experimental version or a specific number. The change applies when you reinstall the server; your saves, mods and settings are kept. The server does not update by itself: a reinstall updates it. Your players must have exactly the same version.

No, not for the server. The Factorio dedicated server is a version of the game without an interface, known as the headless server, which Wube Software distributes freely for Linux: it needs neither a Steam account nor a purchase of the game. Each player, however, needs Factorio to connect.

Only two things: listing your server in the public game list, and downloading mods from the official mod portal. The token is on your factorio.com profile. Prefer it to your password, which would be written in plain text in server-settings.json. With us, the server is private by default: your friends join with its address and port, with no factorio.com account. To appear in the public game list, you need a factorio.com username and token, entered in the OuiPanel variables before you switch on Visible in the server browser. Without them, a server set to public refuses to start and tells you why.

Yes. Factorio multiplayer is co-op on a shared factory. With a Factorio multiplayer server, the game stays reachable for your friends even when you are offline, without leaving your PC on.

The game sets no limit: the max_players setting in server-settings.json is 0 by default, which means no limit. In practice, the size of the factory weighs on the server far more than the number of players. That is why our plans are not sold per slot. On our servers, the maximum number of players is set in OuiPanel, from 1 to 100, and is 20 by default. It is a setting, not a capacity guaranteed by the plan.

Wube Software gives no figure for the dedicated server, so there are no official Factorio server requirements. A fresh game needs little, then memory grows with the size of the factory, the explored map and mods. Our plans range from 2 to 16 GB: start small and move up a plan as the factory grows, without losing data.

The common settings are in OuiPanel, Configuration › Server settings › Environment variables: Server name, Server description, Server password, Maximum players, Factorio version, Space Age and Visible in the server browser. They are written at every start to server-settings.json, the official file of the dedicated server, in the data folder. The other settings in that file stay yours, such as auto_pause for the pause. Map generation is set in map-gen-settings.json, before the game is created. The server password is generated at delivery, 16 characters long; you can change it, or clear it for a game without a password. A reinstall keeps your saves, your mods and these files.Read the SFTP guide →

Yes, without support from us. Mods are uploaded over SFTP to the server's mods folder, and the server loads them at startup. Factorio has one rule: every player must have exactly the same game version and the same mods as the server, otherwise the connection is refused. There is no one-click install: you upload the files yourself. Make a backup before adding a mod.Read the mods guide →

Yes, if you choose so. The official dedicated server includes the Space Age expansion, with no purchase on the server side, and you switch it on with the Space Age toggle in the OuiPanel variables. The server is delivered on the base game. With Space Age, each player must own the expansion to join. Be careful, a Space Age game cannot be reopened in the base game: the server then refuses to start, so as not to damage it.

Admins are listed in the server-adminlist.json file, in the form ["player1", "player2"], using factorio.com player names. In game, an admin promotes another player with the /promote command followed by the player name, and removes them with /demote. With us, the simplest way is to type /promote followed by your player name in the OuiPanel console: you are admin from your next connection, and the server keeps the list.

The console opens in game and doubles as the chat. Admin commands start with a slash: /players for the player list, /kick and /ban to remove someone, /promote and /demote for admins, /server-save to save the game. Be careful, Lua commands (/c) permanently disable achievements for that save.Read the console commands guide →

Yes. Commands typed in the OuiPanel console are taken by the server, for example /server-save to save the game, /players to see who is connected or /promote followed by a name to make someone admin.

The server stays on, but by default Factorio pauses the game when the last player leaves: the factory does not progress without you, and nothing attacks it while you are away. The game resumes at the first connection. This behaviour is the auto_pause setting in server-settings.json.

No. The official Factorio headless server runs on Linux, and that is the version we host. You have nothing to install at home: everything is managed in OuiPanel, from your browser.

Just one, over UDP. Factorio only uses UDP for the game. Your friends connect with the server address and that port, from the Multiplayer menu.

At two levels. The game saves itself at regular intervals, into .zip files that it rotates: every 10 minutes and 5 files by default, adjustable in OuiPanel. OuiPanel adds its own server backups, on demand or scheduled, every night for example. Start keeps 2, Plus 3, Pro 5 and Ultra 10. OuiPanel backups are light: they keep your saves, mods and settings, without the game files. A backup is restored from the Backups tab, and the game downloads itself again at the next start.

The server saves the game as it stops. At the next start, it resumes from the most recent save. You stop and start it from OuiPanel.

Yes. Every server is protected by our network's anti-DDoS, up to 3 Tbps, at no extra cost.

In Marseille, Frankfurt, New York, Beauharnois in Canada and Sydney in Australia. Start, Plus and Pro are available everywhere, Ultra everywhere except Australia, at the same price. Choose the country closest to your players.

Yes. Moving up a plan resizes your server without reinstalling or losing data, in the same country. It is made for this: a Factorio factory needs more memory as it grows.

We also host Satisfactory servers, the other big factory game, in the same countries.See Satisfactory servers →

Get a OuiBox. It groups several servers, Factorio, Satisfactory, Minecraft or Rust, and shares its memory between them.See the OuiBox plans →