Game hosting
done to perfection.

Most hosts oversell their hardware, automate support with bots, and list specs that look great in a table but fall apart when your server hits peak hours. We started Physgun because we were tired of that as server owners ourselves.

Everything here is built around one question: what would we actually want?

50,000+

Customers

90+

5-Star Reviews

99.9%+

Uptime

24/7

Human Support

How Physgun Started

Physgun was founded in 2022 by [FOUNDER_NAME], a Garry's Mod addon developer and server owner who kept running into the same issue: hosts that looked fine on the pricing page but couldn't keep a server stable past 40 players.

The original Physgun servers ran on Ryzen hardware at a time when most hosts were still deploying budget Intel Xeons. The control panel was custom-built from day one — not licensed or bolted onto someone else's software.

That's still the approach today. We've grown to serve over 50,000 customers across Garry's Mod, Rust, S&Box, Minecraft, and more — but the fundamentals haven't changed: don't oversell, don't lie about hardware, and actually show up when something breaks.

Our infrastructure

Chicago, IL & London, UK — owned and operated by Physgun

The Team

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What We Actually Run

We don't use vague terms like "enterprise-grade hardware" without backing them up. Here's what's inside the machines your server runs on:

CPUs

Overclocked AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Rust) and Ryzen 9 7900X (GMod, S&Box, and others). No budget Xeons on performance plans.

Memory

DDR5 RAM across all Ryzen-based plans. Faster, lower-latency than the DDR4 you'll find on cheaper hosts.

Storage

NVMe SSDs on all performance plans. Map loads and mod syncs are noticeably faster compared to SATA or spinning drives.

DDoS Protection

10 Tbps+ DDoS mitigation network with Anycast routing included on every server. Both volumetric floods and Layer 7 attacks are covered.

Locations

Data centers in Chicago, IL (US) and London, UK. Pick based on where your players are — most EU and US players land under 50ms.

Anycast Network

Anycast is included by default and routes players to the closest edge node. This directly improves your server list ping — a real advantage in Rust and GMod browser.

Uptime is monitored continuously. Automated crash recovery restarts affected services within seconds. If something needs human intervention, it goes to the same team that handles support — not a separate NOC you can't reach.

Games We Actually Understand

Listing ten game logos doesn't make you an expert in hosting them. Here's what we mean when we say we know these games:

Garry's Mod

GMod is our longest-running hosting service. We understand the difference between a Sandbox server idling at 8 players and a DarkRP server hitting 80 with 200+ addons loaded from the Steam Workshop. TTT, Zombie Survival, Deathrun, Murder: they all have different bottlenecks, and we know how to host for all of them.

Rust

Our Rust plans run on overclocked Ryzen 9 9950X hardware, which matters because Rust is unusually CPU-bound during peak raid hours and cargo events. We support Carbon and Oxide (uMod) for plugin stacks, and our team has hands-on experience with modded servers running hundreds of plugins. Vanilla, 2x, 5x, 10x, the hardware scales for it.

S&Box

S&Box is the spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, built on Unreal Engine by Facepunch. We've been hosting it since early access. We've been tracking the platform's development, API changes, and server requirements from the start. As the game matures, our infrastructure is already set up to handle the kinds of community-made games and mods that S&Box is designed for.

And many, many more games we have experience hosting

Contact Our Support

We're a small, specialized team. The person who answers your ticket has almost certainly dealt with the same issue before, on the same hardware, in the same game.

Support is available via our Discord server ( discord.gg/physgun ) and a standard ticket system through the client portal. Discord is the faster channel for quick questions, tickets are better for anything that requires account access or detailed back and forth.

We don't promise "instant 24/7 live chat", that's marketing language for offshore support that doesn't know the product. What we do promise is that your issue gets seen by someone who can actually fix it, not someone who pastes a script and closes the ticket. Response times during business hours are typically under a few hours. Evenings and weekends are slower, but we're still watching.