50 vs 50 Β· round live
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Choose the CPU, memory and NVMe storage your server runs on, and add more as your battles grow.
Galactic Contention Server Hosting
Run your own Star Wars battles in Squad for your unit or community, with your rotation, your votes and your rules, all set up from one panel.
- Galactic Contention installed and ready
- Map voting, rotation and team rules
- Squad and mod updates with a restart
- Switch between 535 games for free, anytime*
- From, per month
- $8.49
- Player slots
- Unlimited
- Uptime
- 99.9%
- Money-back
- 3 days
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$21.49/mo
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Secure Backups Included
Heavy Assault
$21.49/mo
Billed monthly. Cancel any time.
- Heavy Assault plan $21.49
- Secure Backups 30 GBFree
3-day money-back guarantee
Part of the Gamebox
Switch your Galactic Contention server to any of 534 other games, right from the panel, whenever you want!*
Included with
every plan
99.9%+ Uptime
Server Console
MySQL Database
(S)FTP Access
Secure Backups
Auto Restarts
DDoS Protected
No Per-Slot Fees
US & UK Locations
Automatic Install
Why host your Galactic Contention server with Physgun?
Your rotation, your votes and your rules for 50 vs 50 battles, on a server you run from one panel.
Online Β· DDoS protected
Always online, always protected
Your server stays up when you log off, and it is protected from DDoS attacks.
Deploying server Installing Galactic Contention Server online
Installs and updates itself
Order and the server installs Squad with Galactic Contention on its own, then fetches updates each time it starts.
Config EditorVoteConfig.cfg
VotingMap RotationTeamsSeeding
Vote on the next mapOn
Vote on the next layerOn
Rounds before a map repeats3
Vote on factions
Saved to VoteConfig.cfg
Every server file, without the typing
Rotation and Rules in the Config Editor
Map rotation and voting, team balance, team kill rules, seeding and Galactic Contention's cross-team voice chat, grouped and labeled in the panel.
- Rotation, Voting, Teams, Gameplay and Seeding groups
- Cross-team voice chat in one switch
Server.cfg - Physgun VS Code main Server.cfg CustomOptions.cfg
1234
// your battles, your rules
ServerName="GC Night Ops"
AllowTeamChanges=true
MaxPlayers=80
Terminal
$ ssh server@physgun.com
β Connected, Galactic Contention container ready
$ physgun status
β running Β· GC layers loaded
For the power users
SSH Access & VSCode
Connect with real developer tools and edit your server files directly. Or skip it and use the panel.
- Full SSH access included
- Edit files live in VSCode
Server Name
server nameGC Night Ops
Restart
Back online as GC Night Ops
Your Server, Your Name
Set the server name, max players, reserved slots and RCON password in the startup settings, and restart to apply them.
> ListPlayers
> ShowNextMap
Admin Commands in the Console
Type admin commands in the panel console and see the server's reply, from listing players to the next map.
readyready
Galactic Contention Ready
The server fetches Galactic Contention when it starts and boots straight into its layers, with no files to copy.
The panel every Galactic Contention server deserves.
One place for your whole server: name, max players, reserved slots and RCON password in the startup settings, a config editor for your rotation, voting, teams and seeding, a console for your admin commands, schedules you set for restarts and backups, subusers for your admins, a file manager with SSH and VS Code, and every other universal tool.
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True Console & SSH Access
Accurate, blazing-fast output piped directly from the container. Paired with complete SSH access inside the Panel!
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Galactic Contention Server Hosting, Explained
New to Galactic Contention?
What is Galactic Contention?
Galactic Contention is a free Star Wars total conversion mod for the tactical shooter Squad. It swaps Squad's modern armies for Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War factions, vehicles and maps, and keeps what Squad is known for: battles of up to 50 vs 50, nine-person squads, voice comms and teamwork. Pick from over 20 maps and over 150 unit types, fight on foot, in vehicles and in the air, and let your commander call in support.
Squad Teamwork.
Squad leaders call the plays over voice, build defenses and keep the team supplied.
Factions and Battlegrounds.
The Republic, the Separatists, the Empire and more, on famous and original battlegrounds.
Why rent a server?
What is Galactic Contention Server Hosting?
Public Galactic Contention servers are often full. Your own server gives your unit, community or event a place to play on your terms. With Physgun it installs Squad and Galactic Contention for you, with the server name, max players, reserved slots and RCON password in the startup settings, your rotation, votes, team rules and seeding in the config editor, a console for admin commands, and full file access over SFTP and SSH.
Always Online.
Your server stays up when you log off, so your community can play any time.
Your Rules.
Set your rotation, votes, team balance, team kill rules and cross-team voice chat.
Questions, answered
Straight answers before you order. Still stuck? Real people are here around the clock.
Physgun
Galactic Contention is built for battles of up to 50 vs 50. You set max players and reserved slots yourself, and we never charge per player slot.
Yes. The server runs Squad with Galactic Contention and fetches the mod each time it starts, so your first boot already plays Galactic Contention layers.
Yes. Run your layer list in order or shuffled, or let players vote on the next map, layer and factions.
Yes. With automatic updates on, the server fetches Squad and Galactic Contention updates each time it starts, so a restart brings the latest version.
Yes. You can set up a backup schedule in the panel, and secure backup storage is included in every Physgun server!
Yes, to any Gamebox game your box can run. A switch reinstalls the server, so the panel offers to take a backup first, and if the new game needs more CPU, memory or storage, upgrade your box before you switch. A switch that moves your server to another machine changes its IP address.
Yes. Every Physgun server is protected from DDoS attacks.
Chicago, USA and London, UK. Pick the one closest to most of your players.
Yes. Every server has a 3 day refund guarantee.
Still stuck?
Ready to launch your Galactic Contention server?
Run 50 vs 50 battles with your own rotation, votes and rules on a server that stays up when you log off.
- 3-day money-back guarantee
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- Real people, around the clock
