Sons of the Forest Server Hosting: dedicated server from $9.26/mo

The best Sons of the Forest server hosting gives the game enough memory, leaves you in control of dedicatedserver.cfg, opens SFTP access to your files, makes backups and lets you change plan without losing anything. Our four Sons of the Forest dedicated server hosting plans tick all of these, from $9.26 to $23.17 per month, with support that answers 24/7.

With a host like OuiHeberg, choose a plan and a country, then pay. The official dedicated server is installed for you, with no Steam account to provide. Then set the server name, the number of players and the game mode, start the server, and join it from the game's multiplayer menu. The first start happens by itself, with nothing for you to relaunch.Read the setup guide →

The official dedicated server installs by itself after payment, with no account to connect. It is ready within a few minutes.

Sons of the Forest is played in co-op, with up to 8 players. When you rent a server, the game stays open to your friends even when you are offline, without leaving your PC on. They join from the game's multiplayer menu, with the server address and its game port. A password keeps the SOTF server for your group only. With us, the server is protected from creation by a password generated for it alone. You read it in the Server password variable in OuiPanel to share with your friends, and you can change it.

Yes. The server registers in the Steam server list for Sons of the Forest, under the name set in the Server name variable. The password is still asked when joining.

No, not to install it. The Sons of the Forest dedicated server is a separate tool that Endnight lets anyone download with no Steam account. We need neither your login nor your password. Each player needs the game on Steam.

Up to 8 players at once, on all our plans. This is the limit Endnight sets for the dedicated server: the MaxPlayers setting goes from 1 to 8. A bigger plan therefore gives no more slots, but more memory and processor for your game. With us, the number of slots is set in the Maximum players variable in OuiPanel, from 1 to 8. It is 4 at delivery: set it to 8 for a full group.Read the max players guide →

Endnight gives no official figure for the dedicated server. The game is memory-hungry, which is why our first plan starts at 10 GB. Our plans go up to 24 GB: move up a plan when needed, without losing data.

The dedicated server has two kinds of settings. Server settings are in OuiPanel, Configuration › Server settings › Environment variables: Server name, Server password, Maximum players, Game mode, Save slot and Automatic update. They apply at the next start. Game settings are in the official dedicatedserver.cfg file, such as the save interval, tree regrowth or structure damage. This file opens in the OuiPanel file manager or over SFTP. On our servers, the file sits in the serverconfig folder. The server name and the save slot are rewritten there at every start from the variables. The password, the players and the game mode are changed in the variables, not in the file.Read the SFTP guide →

The game mode is chosen when the save is created, between normal, hard, peaceful or custom for example. A save that already exists keeps its mode: this is how the game works. To play in another mode, you start a new save. With us, choose the mode in the Game mode variable in OuiPanel before the save is created. For a new save, change the Save slot variable: the server creates the missing save, in the chosen mode.

Not on our servers for now. Endnight offers no official mod support, and community mods rely on a third-party loader that our servers do not run today. We would rather tell you before you order. Your server runs the game as Endnight ships it.

Through the dedicated server's ownerswhitelist.txt file. You add your Steam ID to it, one per line, then restart the server. Owners then manage players from the game's Pause menu, to promote an administrator, kick or ban.

Endnight documents no commands for the dedicated server console. Administration happens in the game: the owners listed in ownerswhitelist.txt manage players from the Pause menu.Read the commands guide →

No. Sons of the Forest was only released on PC, on Steam. There is no console version, so no shared game between PC and consoles. All your players need the game on PC.

No. The Forest is Endnight's first game, and its dedicated server is a different program, with its own files and its own settings. The plans on this page are made for Sons of the Forest only.

Endnight only releases a Windows version of the dedicated server. On our Linux machines it runs with Wine, a compatibility layer for Windows programs. You have nothing to install, and dedicatedserver.cfg stays the same as on Windows.

Restart it after a game update. As long as the Automatic update variable is enabled, the server checks the Sons of the Forest version at every start and installs the latest one.

Three UDP ports. The game port carries the game, the query port serves the server list, and the BlobSync port exchanges game data with players. With us, the three ports are reserved when the server is created: you have nothing to set up. The address shown in OuiPanel gives the game port.

OuiPanel makes backups of your server, on demand or scheduled, every night for example. Start keeps 2, Plus 3, Pro 10 and Ultra 20. A backup is restored from the Backups tab in OuiPanel and puts the server back the way it was. The game itself saves every 10 minutes. Stopping or restarting from OuiPanel does not save the game: wait for the automatic save before stopping, otherwise the last few minutes may be lost.

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. Useful when your game lasts and memory fills up.

Yes. We also host Icarus, Enshrouded and Valheim servers, in the same countries.See Icarus servers →

Get a OuiBox. It groups several servers, Sons of the Forest, DayZ, Minecraft or Rust, and shares its memory between them.See the OuiBox plans →