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Run a headless save that keeps advancing between sessions, with mod portal downloads, autosave rotation, and nine locations to trim latency for your engineering group.
from $5.00/mo · unlimited slots
Enterprise hardware and every feature you need, at a fraction of the price. Not feeling it? We offer a no-questions-asked 7-day refund window.
Need more than 50 GB of NVMe? Just ask.
Keep up to ten backups at once.
Split your server into more than one.
Switch to any supported game, any time.
Modpacks, worlds, mods and plugins.
Every version, mod, and modpack.
We'll tell you when and why it crashed.
No AI or bots here. Only humans.
2 GB at $5.00 handles an early save for four friends, 6 GB is right for a 10-player Space Age run, and 16 GB keeps a thousand-hour megabase loaded without stutter.
Every plan: Unlimited Slots · Unmetered Allocations/Ports · Unmetered Databases · Enterprise Hardware · Unmetered NVMe Storage
Need help choosing? Talk to a human or check the docs.
Factorio simulation is single-thread bound, so UPS lives or dies on clock speed: every plan runs AMD Ryzen 9 7900, 7950X, 9900X, or 9950X cores with DDR5 ECC memory.
Checkout provisions the headless binary automatically, so the first save can be loading a couple of minutes later.
Automated setup · No manual install
Ryzen 9 desktop silicon and DDR5 ECC memory give the tick loop the clock speed a growing factory demands.
Ryzen 9 7950X class · DDR5 ECC · NVMe SSD
Install mods from the panel or drop a whole pack into the mods folder over SFTP before your players sync.
Mod folder access · Version changer
DDoS protection sits in front of every Factorio port at no extra cost, including your default ten allocations.
Always on · No surcharge
Slot counts are never metered, so a public megabase community pays exactly what a four-person save pays.
No slot fees · Subuser access
Deploy in Miami, Dallas, New York City, San Jose, Ashburn, Salt Lake City, Toronto, Brussels, or Frankfurt.
9 locations · US, CA, EU
A dedicated Factorio server runs the simulation without rendering anything, so the map keeps advancing whether or not you are logged in. Uploading an existing save is a drag and drop into the panel file manager followed by a restart. Server settings live in the same place, which means autosave interval, autosave slot count, and whether the game pauses with no players connected are all editable from the browser.
Mods live in the mods folder, and the file manager plus SFTP access covers both single zip uploads and a full pack directory. Factorio checks the active mod set against every connecting client, so keep the server list identical to what your players run, then use the one-click version changer to land on the exact game build the pack targets. The Space Age expansion has to be owned and enabled on each client as well.
UPS falls when the factory outgrows one core's throughput, not when memory runs out, which is why the lineup uses Ryzen 9 processors rather than low-clock parts. Dense bot logistics and very long belt chains are the usual offenders. Automatic daily backups hold ten rolling slots, so you can roll back to a pre-spaghetti save after an experiment tanks the tick rate, and the task scheduler can restart the server on a fixed nightly window.
Compare all 9 game server locations for node hardware and the regions each one covers.
Common questions about running a Factorio server with us.
Factorio stays modest until the map grows. The 2 GB plan at $5.00 per month is fine for an early save with a few players, 6 GB covers a mid-game Space Age run for a dozen engineers, and 16 GB is the safe pick for a megabase carrying a long mod list. Unlimited player slots come with every tier, so you are only paying for memory.
Yes. Put the save archive into the saves folder using the panel file manager or SFTP, point the server at it, and restart. The mod list has to match what the save was built with, so install the same mods first and use the one-click version changer to get onto the matching game build before the load.
Factorio compares the active mod set when a client connects, so yes. Install mods on the server through the panel, then have everyone sync from the in-game mod menu, which pulls the same versions from the mod portal. Keeping a written list of the pack and its version numbers saves a lot of troubleshooting on patch days.
That is your choice in the server settings file. Factorio can pause when the last player disconnects or keep simulating, and either option is a single edit in the panel file manager. Leaving it unpaused means trains keep moving and science keeps ticking overnight, which is the main reason groups move off a friend's home machine.
Pick whichever sits closest to most of the group. There are nine game-server locations: Miami, Dallas, New York City, San Jose, Ashburn, Salt Lake City, Toronto, Brussels, and Frankfurt. Factorio tolerates latency better than a shooter does, but a nearby region still keeps map transfers and construction ghosts feeling immediate.
