Terraria Server Hosting

Less than most games. A vanilla server with a small or medium world uses well under a gigabyte, and a large world can climb toward 2GB. CPU use stays low until a boss fight, a big event or a base full of NPCs and liquids, where fast single cores matter more than many of them. Every plan starts at 2GB. A tModLoader server needs more, since mods load into memory: we recommend at least 4GB there. The panel shows live CPU and memory graphs, so you can size up when your world needs it.

As many as you set. Max Players is a setting in the panel, and we never charge per slot, so a plan costs the same with two or twenty people online. Bosses and events scale with the world, not the player count, so a bigger group mostly adds load from the extra players exploring and building at once.

Yes. Set World Size to Small, Medium or Large, Difficulty to Classic, Expert, Master or Journey, and any World Seed, secret seeds included, right in the panel. These shape the next world the server creates and do not change a world that already exists. To start a new world, give it a new World Name: your old worlds stay in the worlds folder, so you can switch back by name. In a Journey world you also choose who can use each Journey power, like god mode or freezing time: nobody, the host, or everyone.

Yes. Besides vanilla Terraria, you can pick a Terraria (tModLoader) or a Terraria (TShock) server when you order, or switch your server to one later and keep your files. On tModLoader, players need the same mods to join, you choose the tModLoader version, and Update on Start keeps your Workshop mods up to date. TShock adds logins, a whitelist, PvP and spawn protection settings and its own auto saves and backups, all in the config editor, and its web API lets the panel show who is online. Each TShock version works with one Terraria version, and players need that one.

Yes. On Windows your worlds are .wld files in Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds. Upload yours to the server's worlds folder with SFTP or the file manager, set World Name to the file's name without .wld, and start the server. The server picks up where your world left off. Characters are saved on each player's own PC, so everyone keeps their gear.

Yes. Players need the same version as the server to join, so you can run an older version while your group catches up. Set it back to latest to get updates again.

Yes. Physgun runs scheduled backups of your whole server, worlds included, and you can restore any snapshot in a single click from the panel. On top of that, the server can keep older copies of the world each time it saves (World backups to keep, in the config editor). Terraria saves on its own only at dawn. Stopping the server from the panel saves the world first, and you can schedule the save command as often as you like.

Set a Server Password so only your group can join. On a vanilla server, turn on Cheat protection in the config editor, which kicks players who send suspicious data such as spawned items. A TShock server adds logins and a whitelist. From the server console you can kick or ban players, and banned players are kept in the ban list file, which you can edit in the file manager.

Yes. Terraria is part of the Gamebox, so you can switch your server to another Gamebox game from the panel, as long as your server meets that game's minimum CPU, memory and storage. Switching installs the new game from scratch and wipes the old game's files, and the panel offers to take a backup first.

Yep! Every Physgun server is protected from brute force attacks and even small advanced game-specific attacks. We specialize in DDoS Protection and Network Security, your server has never been in better hands than ours.

Chicago, USA and London, UK. Pick the one closest to most of your players when you order.

Yes. Every Physgun server comes with a 3 day refund guarantee: if the server is not right for your group, contact support within three days of ordering for a full refund. Billing is month to month with no setup fee.