ARK: Survival Ascended Server Hosting
Tame, build and survive on your own ARK: Survival Ascended server. AMD Ryzen 9 power, NVMe storage and DDoS protection, with CurseForge mods and clusters to move survivors and dinos between your servers.
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ARK: Survival Ascended server plans & pricing
- No slot limit on any plan
- VibeSHIELD DDoS protection
- AMD Ryzen 9, DDR5 memory, NVMe storage
- Online in minutes, in every location
ARK SA I
Suits about 1-10 players
ARK SA II
Suits about 10-30 players
ARK SA III
Suits about 30-50 players
ARK SA IV
Suits about 50-70 players
Why host your own ARK: Survival Ascended server?
ARK: Survival Ascended is ARK rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5: the same island, dinos and tribes, with the lighting, the water and the building system redone, crossplay between PC, Xbox and PlayStation, and mods through CurseForge that console players can run too. A server of your own gives your tribe a world with your rates and rules that keeps running whether you are online or not.
ASA is the hungriest game we host: an empty server already uses around 10 GB of memory, and it climbs with players, tames and mods. Our plans start at 16 GB and go to 32 GB, on AMD Ryzen CPUs with high clocks and NVMe storage, behind VibeSHIELD DDoS protection. The first start downloads the game and takes a few minutes; after that the server is yours.
Which ARK: Survival Ascended plan do you need?
Memory decides everything with ASA. Pick by player count, and go up a size when you run a long mod list:
A tribe of friends: ARK SA I
16 GB and four threads for up to 10 players on The Island with a handful of mods.
Communities: ARK SA II to III
20 to 24 GB for 10 to 50 players, bigger bases, Scorched Earth or The Center, and a proper mod list.
Full servers: ARK SA IV
32 GB and eight threads for 50 to 70 players, heavy mods and a map in a cluster. Upgrading keeps your save.
CurseForge mods, crossplay and clusters
Everything the official dedicated server supports works here, with the panel doing the repetitive parts.
CurseForge mods
Enter the mod IDs in the panel and the server downloads them and keeps them updated. Because ASA mods are server-delivered, console and PC players get them automatically.PC, Xbox and PlayStation together
Crossplay is on by default: Steam, Xbox and PlayStation players find your server under Unofficial in the in-game list and play in one world.Rates, rules and clusters
XP, taming, harvesting, breeding and PvP rules sit in GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini from the panel. Link several of your servers into a cluster to transfer between maps.
ARK: Survival Ascended server locations worldwide
Low ping is half the fun. Our ARK: Survival Ascended servers run in 15 datacenters across Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania and Africa, every one on the same AMD Ryzen hardware with NVMe storage and behind VibeSHIELD, our own DDoS protection network with 17 Tb/s of mitigation capacity. You pick the location at checkout, and the latency checker below shows your real ping to each one before you order.
Outgrown your first choice? Our team moves your server to another location on request, with your files intact, so the location you start in is never a lock-in.
Your first steps after ordering
The server downloads the game on its first start and then runs The Island. Getting your tribe in takes a few steps:
- 1Wait for the first start to finish downloading the game
- 2Set the server name and a password in the panel
- 3Enter your CurseForge mod IDs
- 4Set your rates in GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini
- 5Make yourself admin with the admin password and enablecheats
- 6Find the server under Unofficial with Show Player Servers on
Switching from another ARK: Survival Ascended host?
An ASA save is the SavedArks folder for your map plus the two ini files. Save the world on the old server, download the folder, upload it over SFTP, set the same map and mods, restart, and your tribe finds its base and dinos where they left them.
- 1
Save the world and download the SavedArks folder from the old host
- 2
Upload it over SFTP together with your ini files
- 3
Enter the same mod IDs and map, restart and rejoin
Game control panel help centre
Step by step walkthroughs for setting up and running your server, written by the team that hosts it.
- How to Log In to the Game PanelEvery game server is managed in the VibeGAMES game panel at game.vibegames.com.
- How to Start Your Game ServerStarting your game server takes one click. Here is where to find it and what the other power buttons do.
- How to Manage Your Files Using the File ManagerThe file manager is built into the game panel and covers almost everything you need day to day: browsing, uploading, editing, archiving and deleting files.
- How to manage your files via FTP using FilezillaSFTP is the fastest way to make big changes to your server, such as uploading complete resources or downloading everything at once.
ARK: Survival Ascended server hosting FAQ
What customers say
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VibeSHIELD, our globally anycasted DDoS-protected network, now spans 46 scrubbing locations worldwide. Every point of presence filters traffic the instant it lands, stopping attacks as close to the source as possible, long before they ever reach your server.
All 46 locations combine into one unified DDoS-protected fabric, so the full capacity of the entire network backs every individual server. Layer that on top of custom game-aware filtering, tuned for the protocols our customers actually use, and it doesn't matter how big the attack is or how long it lasts. Your players stay connected.
