Left 4 Dead 2 Server Hosting
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008. This co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
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Left 4 Dead 2 server plans & pricing
L4D2 I
From € 4,99 € 3,99 / mo
1x CPU thread
2 GB DDR5 memory
100 GB NVMe SSD storage
No slot limit
17 Tbit DDoS protection
L4D2 II
From € 9,99 € 7,99 / mo
2x CPU threads
4 GB DDR5 memory
200 GB NVMe SSD storage
No slot limit
17 Tbit DDoS protection
L4D2 III
From € 14,99 € 11,99 / mo
4x CPU threads
8 GB DDR5 memory
300 GB NVMe SSD storage
No slot limit
17 Tbit DDoS protection
Why host your own Left 4 Dead 2 server?
Left 4 Dead 2 is still the co-op zombie shooter to beat, and after fifteen years the community keeps it alive with custom campaigns, mutations and Versus leagues. A dedicated server of your own means no more laggy listen servers hosted from a friend's PC: a fixed address, your campaigns, your plugins and your rules, in your region, online whenever the four of you want to play.
Our Left 4 Dead 2 hosting runs the official SRCDS dedicated server on AMD Ryzen CPUs with NVMe storage, behind VibeSHIELD DDoS protection with a Source-engine filter. Install SourceMod and MetaMod, upload campaign .vpk files, edit server.cfg, all from the control panel or over SFTP. The server is online within minutes of ordering.
Which Left 4 Dead 2 plan do you need?
Left 4 Dead 2 is light on memory; storage for custom campaigns and the number of players set the size:
Four friends: L4D2 I
2 GB and a thread for a campaign or survival server with the standard 4 survivors, vanilla or with a few SourceMod plugins, and 100 GB for campaigns.
Versus and custom campaigns: L4D2 II
4 GB and two threads for 8-player Versus and Scavenge, a plugin stack and a library of community campaigns on 200 GB.
Communities and extended lobbies: L4D2 III
8 GB and four threads for 8-plus survivor servers through SourceMod, many plugins, mutations and a large campaign library on 300 GB. Upgrading keeps your files.
Game modes, campaigns and SourceMod
Your server is a normal SRCDS install with full file access, so everything the Left 4 Dead 2 community has built works.
Every official mode and the mutations
Campaign, Versus, Survival, Scavenge and Realism, plus the official mutations, set through server.cfg or on the fly from the console. Private lobbies connect with a search key, or players join by address.
Custom campaigns and add-ons
Upload campaign and map .vpk files to the addons folder over SFTP or the file manager and they are playable after a restart; players download the same campaign from the Workshop.
SourceMod and MetaMod
Install MetaMod and SourceMod for admin tools, map voting, custom mutations, extended survivor counts and gameplay tweaks. Plugins drop into addons/sourcemod/plugins and load on restart.
Left 4 Dead 2 server locations worldwide
Low ping is half the fun. Our Left 4 Dead 2 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 is delivered installed and running a campaign. Getting your own server live takes a few steps:
- 1Set the hostname, password and rcon password in server.cfg
- 2Install MetaMod and SourceMod if you want plugins
- 3Upload your custom campaigns to the addons folder
- 4Set the game mode and a search key for your lobby
- 5Restart from the panel and join by address or through your lobby
Switching from another Left 4 Dead 2 host?
A Left 4 Dead 2 server is its cfg folder and its addons folder: server.cfg, SourceMod plugins and configs, and the campaign .vpk files. Upload them over SFTP, restart, and everything behaves as it did, in a new datacenter.
- 1
Download your cfg folder and the addons folder from the old host
- 2
Upload them over SFTP, SourceMod plugins and configs included
- 3
Restart and point your community at the new address
Game control panel guides
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.
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DDoS protection
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.
