Building game server hosting since 2022
Most game
hosts work,
until you get players.
If you're running a gaming community that's gotten some players, you've probably already seen this:
- Everything is fine… until your player count spikes
- Your mod/plugin setup starts killing your performance
- Performance drops right when you're pulling pop
- Then support gives you generic answers that don't explain anything
At that point, it's not a config problem.
It's a hosting problem.
Where most hosts fall over
Most hosts are built for servers with zero players. Not yours.
The problems only show up once people actually start playing.
The performance of your server gets measured at low load, not when there's 100+ players
Bad performance shows up after your community blows up, then you risk your server pop
"Good enough" works until your community depends on it, then they blame you for bad performance
That's why everything feels fine.
Until it doesn't.
What we do differently
Physgun is built for real servers that handle real load.
We don't just give you hardware, we give you the tools to optimize it.
The Gamepanel everyone is trying to copy
The Physgun Panel is one of the most advanced, feature packed and optimized gamepanels ever to exist. All aimed at providing you, the end user with the absolute best game server managing experience possible.
Full transparency with what's happening
You can see what your server is doing and why. We even developed in-depth server metrics to profile expensive functions so you know exactly what's sapping your performance.
Game-specific optimizations
We're the only host in the industry that ships engine-level optimizations per game. We tune beneath the surface to squeeze more performance out of the same hardware than any traditional host.
Support that speaks your language
No more arguing with annoying AI responses, our team plays the games we host providing a real in-depth support experience rather than a generic copy-paste knowledgebase article.
Real servers, powered by Physgun.
A live look at the communities running on our hardware right now.
Powering
Who Physgun is actually for
Our service is for you if,
- You don't want to be burned by a host that overpromises and underdelivers.
- You hate when lag is out of your control. (and when your players complain about it)
- You care more about stability, performance, & features than saving a few dollars.
We're probably not the best fit if,
- You're just looking for the cheapest host.
- You're running something short-term and not 100% committed to your community's success.
- You're okay with making compromises with your game server.
We build servers that thousands of server owners rely on to host the largest gaming communities.
Founded 2022
How Physgun Started
Physgun was founded in 2022 by Anthony Szczurowski, 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.
Chicago, IL & London, UK
Owned and operated by Physgun
Who you'll be talking to
The Team
The people who make Physgun what it is today.
The actual spec sheet
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:
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.
Not just a logo wall
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.
Talk to a human
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.
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