Game server hosting in Netherlands

Minecraft, Counter-Strike, Valheim, Rust, Palworld — DDoS-protected from minute one, deployed in 41 seconds, no per-slot pricing.

Netherlands: EU member — GDPR applies. Foreign DMCA notices declined in writing by default. Dutch court order required for takedown.

See plans from $39.99/mo About Netherlands

No KYC DMCA ignored Crypto only 60-second deploy

1 Tbps

DDoS absorption

41s

Median deploy

Amsterdam (NL-AMS)

Datacenter

$39.99

Entry plan / month

Why Netherlands

The Netherlands case for Game server hosting

Amsterdam is the densest internet exchange in Europe. AMS-IX peers with 800+ networks; the median RTT to London, Frankfurt and Paris is under 10 ms. The Dutch legal regime is EU-standard — GDPR applies, but takedowns require a court order and the threshold is high in practice. We pick Amsterdam when network performance matters more than legal exoticism: gaming, low-latency relays, federated services with European users.

DDoS scrubbing capacity matters for game servers more than for almost any other workload — competitive players have access to booter services and routinely use them. Every plan includes 1 Tbps of L3/L4 absorption with L7 game-server templates (one-click profiles for the common Minecraft, CS:GO/CS2, Valheim, Rust, Palworld, and Source-engine traffic patterns). No opt-in, no extra charge, no "DDoS protection tier" upsell.

Workload alignment

What Game server hosting gets from Netherlands

1 Tbps DDoS absorption with one-click L7 game profiles. No "protection tier" upsell.

High clock Xeon Gold for single-threaded games (Minecraft chunk gen). EPYC for parallel (Rust, Valheim).

41-second median deploy. Spin up a fresh instance for a private match in less than a minute.

Low-latency peering to TIER-1 carriers. Median RTT to Western Europe under 30 ms from any of our 4 locations.

NVMe everywhere. World file I/O (Minecraft saves, Rust map cache) doesn't cap your tick rate.

Plans

Game server hosting — Netherlands plans

Plans below ship from Netherlands (Amsterdam (NL-AMS)) by default. Pick the cheapest that matches your projected load — hot-resize is live.

VPS

Business

Intel Xeon Gold 6430 · Amsterdam (NL-AMS)

6 vCPU
16 GB DDR5 ECC
240 GB NVMe
5 Gbps unmetered

$39.99/mo

Deploy in Netherlands

VPS

Pro

Intel Xeon Gold 6430 · Amsterdam (NL-AMS)

8 vCPU
24 GB DDR5 ECC
400 GB NVMe
5 Gbps unmetered

$54.99/mo

Deploy in Netherlands

VPS

Scale

AMD EPYC 9454P · Amsterdam (NL-AMS)

12 vCPU
32 GB DDR5 ECC
640 GB NVMe
10 Gbps unmetered

$69.00/mo

Deploy in Netherlands

Sysadmin FAQ

Game server hosting in Netherlands — questions answered

How big does my plan need to be for Minecraft Java with mods?

Vanilla Minecraft: vps-growth handles 20 players. Lightly modded (Quark, JEI): vps-business. Heavy modpack (Create, IF, AE2): vps-pro for 30–50 players. Beyond that, ded-shield or higher because of the sustained CPU load.

Will I be DDoS'ed off the server during competitive matches?

Booter attacks against game servers are common but our scrubbing absorbs them transparently. We've mitigated 600+ Gbps attacks against Minecraft servers without dropping the player connection. The L7 profiles are the key — they recognize Minecraft handshakes and discard malformed packets at the edge.

Where should I host for European players?

Netherlands (Amsterdam) for the lowest median RTT to Western Europe and good UK transit. Romania (Bucharest) is a strong second with great peering to Eastern Europe. Switzerland and Iceland are further but have niche peering for specific routes.

Do you charge per player slot or by traffic?

Neither. Flat monthly per plan. You can run a 100-slot Minecraft server on vps-pro (if your CPU and memory budget allows) and pay $54.99/month. No "slot tier" pricing, no traffic overage on the unmetered uplink.

Can I run a private modded Discord-only server here?

Yes — that's the most common deployment. Many of our game-server customers run private community servers behind a whitelist or auth plugin. Same plans, same pricing, just gated at the application layer.

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