Developer Documentation

Free game server hosting for developers

Are you still paying for your dedicated game server fleet? Host your game servers at 4Netplayers, and we won’t charge you for anything. Instead, you can even earn money. Sounds good? Continue reading to understand how we make this possible.

You’re a game-developer, no sys-admin!

You signed up as a game developer, now your primary browser window is AWS, GCP or Azure Console? We want you to focus on your game, while we do what we can do best: hosting game servers all over the world with the best latency and ping available!

Automatic server updates

Provide us with a new version of your server and we’ll roll that out to the public immediately. We’ll take care of all those ugly details.

Stop worrying about costs

If your game is successful, your players will be happy to have their own servers and will pay the cloud infrastructure for you. While your game is launching, 4Players will take care of enough servers to get your game started.

Leverage our reach

4Players has close to ninety thousand paying customers that operate their private and public game servers in our cloud. Each one of them can create a server for your game in seconds.

Develop in the real world

Develop your game under real-world conditions and address issues in your netcode early enough.

Tech-support inclusive

Having issues with your servers? Our tech and support team will be there for you to help to get your servers up and running.

Earn revenue shares

Earn money with all servers your customers have created for your game.

For your players

Ready to launch your game or just started developing one? Need some servers to alpha and beta test with your friends or community? We got you covered!

1. Add your game
1. Add your game

Contact us and we’ll add your game into our game library. You decide if your dedicated game server will be shown to the public or will be available only for a closed testing group.

2. Set up your fleet
2. Set up your fleet

By using our innovative administration panel you can setup servers with different configurations. For example, try out which tick rate works best for your game.

3. Integrate into your game
3. Integrate into your game

Use our REST-API to collect available servers and to show them in your game. Add a “Get your own server” button into your game and give your players the option to purchase their own server, while you earn a revenue share.

Our offering

You develop, we take care of your servers.

Prerequisites for this offers

  • 4Players is your exclusive server partner
  • A button “Rent a server” is added to your game directing your users to our sales funnel
  • Windows or Linux binary for dedicated server

Leverage the power of the 4Players platform for your game. Understanding games and what needs to be in-place for games to be great is part of our DNA for more than 20 years. Trust our experience in gaming and game server hosting.

Powered by our global network

Leverage our global server network, optimized for real-time traffic: built on the back of more than 20 years of experience with hosting game and voice servers for gamers and the industry.

Next-Level Game Hosting

Low latency

Real-time experiences require extremely low latency and reliability. We are serving the industry with game- and voice-servers for more than 20 years.

Traffic included

Traffic is one of those things that is hard to estimate and harder to optimize. Don’t worry about your next invoice as in all our services, traffic is included.

Scalability

Our global network relies on our own, proprietary server orchestration tools that allows scaling servers in real-time even with different port configurations and UDP traffic.

Gameservers for more than 250 games and mods

This is how everything started more than 20 years ago: Serving gamers and communities with best-in-class gameservers with an easy-to-understand web-interface.

V Rising
V Rising
Minecraft
Minecraft
Arma Reforger
Arma Reforger
Farming Simulator 22
Farming Simulator 22
Valheim
Valheim
Satisfactory
Satisfactory
Conan Exiles
Conan Exiles
ARK
ARK