Mordhau server hosting built for the battlefield.

Mordhau's appeal is the range of ways you can fight. Frontline pits two teams against each other across objective points in huge, chaotic battles; Invasion turns that into an attack-and-defend campaign across a map; and Battle Royale drops players into a shrinking arena to be the last warrior standing. On top of those, duel servers and team deathmatch let smaller groups focus on pure skill-based melee.

With EUGameHost you can configure any of these modes, set your own map rotation and rules, and run mutators or custom maps from the Steam Workshop, so your server can be a sprawling 64-player siege one week and a ranked duel ladder the next, all from the same control panel.

Frontline & Invasion

Frontline and Invasion are the headline large-scale modes, supporting big player counts and heavy simultaneous combat. They put the most pressure on CPU and tick rate, which is exactly why high-clock hardware and generous RAM matter for keeping a full server smooth.

Duels & Team Deathmatch

Duel servers and team deathmatch are where Mordhau's deep melee system shines, rewarding timing, footwork and feints. Lower player counts mean these run comfortably on any plan, and tight, low-latency hosting makes every parry and riposte land exactly when you intend.

Self-hosting Mordhau from a home PC sounds cheaper on paper, but it rarely is once you factor in the realities. Mordhau is a demanding, CPU-bound server, and running it locally ties up your own machine, exposes your home IP and bandwidth to attack, and takes your server offline whenever your power, internet or PC has a wobble. A residential connection has neither the bandwidth nor the DDoS protection to survive the attacks battle servers routinely attract.

Renting a dedicated Mordhau server solves all of this. EUGameHost includes always-on DDoS protection free on every plan, a 10 Gbps network, full FTP/SFTP access for deep customisation, a mod manager and 24/7 support for when something needs a human. You also get automatic backups and a browser-based control panel and console, and with no contracts, you can cancel anytime, so renting carries none of the long-term risk of buying and maintaining your own hardware.

Mordhau is a CPU-sensitive game server, and the reason is its combat: simulating dozens of melee fighters swinging, blocking and feinting at once is a heavy, latency-critical workload. That means single-core clock speed and tick rate dictate your server FPS, and server FPS is what governs how responsive blocks, parries and hit registration feel to every connected player.

The pressure point is peak time on a busy Frontline or siege server. When 64 players collide on an objective with mounts, projectiles and siege engines in play, the simulation load spikes and a low-clock or oversold CPU sees its server FPS collapse, producing the rubber-banding, delayed hits and tick-rate drops that ruin melee combat. A strong single-thread processor, fast memory and quick storage are what hold performance steady when it matters most.

CPU: clock speed wins

Because Mordhau's combat simulation leans hard on per-core performance, clock speed is the single biggest factor in how a full server feels. EUGameHost runs high-clock Intel Xeon (3.8GHz+) and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X processors with the headroom to keep tick rate stable even during the busiest frontline pushes.

Memory and storage: DDR & NVMe

Mordhau's memory footprint grows with player count, mods and large maps, so generous RAM keeps the battlefield responsive: our plans ship with 16 GB, 24 GB and 32 GB. On storage, NVMe SSDs slash the time it takes to load maps, stream assets to joining players and cache mods, and every plan rides a 10 Gbps network so bandwidth is never the bottleneck.

Mordhau battle servers are frequent DDoS targets, especially around community events, tournaments or competitive disputes between clans. Generic web DDoS protection is largely ineffective against game-layer attacks, which is why proper Mordhau mitigation has to understand game traffic and UDP floods specifically.

EUGameHost includes always-on DDoS protection on every Mordhau server, with Layer 3 and 4 volumetric mitigation, Layer 7 application filtering, and Anycast routing that absorbs large-scale attacks across multiple points of presence. Crucially, protection is always on and your server is never null-routed during an attack: the failure mode of cheap hosts that quietly take your whole community offline the moment they're targeted.

Mordhau server hosting is priced mainly on the hardware tier you choose: more RAM and CPU for bigger, busier battles. A small private duel server costs very little to run, while a packed 64-player Frontline server at peak time needs more horsepower, and the pricing reflects that.

EUGameHost's Mordhau plans start from £4.80 per month for the Basic tier (16 GB RAM, 400% CPU), with the Recommended tier at £15.00 (24 GB RAM, 500% CPU) and the Ultimate tier at £22.50 (32 GB RAM, 600% CPU). Billing is flexible: pay monthly, or commit further and save. Quarterly saves 10%, semi-annual saves 20% and annual saves 25%. There are no contracts and you can cancel anytime, so you're free to scale your plan up before a big event and adjust it afterwards without penalty.

Location is the difference between sharp, responsive combat and a server that feels laggy for half your players. Mordhau is sensitive to latency (blocks, parries and hit registration all come down to fractions of a second), so you want your server hosted as close as possible to the bulk of your player base to keep ping low and combat tight.

EUGameHost offers Mordhau locations in the United Kingdom (London) and the United States (Dallas), with routing optimised for European and North American players. London is the natural home for UK and European clans, while Dallas serves North America with low latency. Run the live latency test at the top of this page to check your real ping to each before you buy, and where your community spans continents, consider a separate server per region so nobody is stuck at a high-ping disadvantage.