Unturned server hosting built for survival.

Unturned's strength is its flexibility — the same server can host hardcore survival, PvP arenas, roleplay or PvE depending on the map, mods and rules you pick. The Steam Workshop is home to thousands of mods, maps, vehicles and content packs, and how you combine them defines your community's experience.

EUGameHost lets you install Steam Workshop content in a few clicks and switch your map or rules whenever you like, so you're never locked into a setup you chose on day one. With full file-level access you can also run completely custom configurations — a server that starts as vanilla survival can become a heavily-modded roleplay world without being stuck on a host's restrictions.

Official maps

Unturned ships with a range of official maps including PEI, Washington, Russia and Germany, plus curated and arena maps, each with its own size, difficulty and feel. You can run any of them out of the box and switch between them from the panel as your community's tastes change.

Steam Workshop mods

The Workshop is where Unturned really opens up — custom maps, weapons, vehicles, quality-of-life mods and total overhauls are all a click away. Because EUGameHost has built-in Workshop integration, you can add and update mods without touching the command line, and our high-clock CPUs and NVMe storage keep heavily-modded servers smooth.

Game modes

From hardcore survival to PvP, PvE, roleplay and arena play, Unturned's rules are yours to set. The visual config editor lets you tune difficulty, loot, PvP and more, and you can change your mode at any time without a fresh start.

Self-hosting Unturned from a home PC sounds cheaper on paper, but it rarely is once you factor in the realities. Running a server 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 community servers routinely attract.

Renting a dedicated Unturned 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, automatic backups and 24/7 support for when something needs a human. You also get 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.

Unturned is lighter than many survival games, but a busy, modded server still leans on a fast CPU. The simulation and most Workshop mods are sensitive to per-core clock speed, so single-thread performance — not raw core count — has the biggest effect on tick rate and how smoothly building, looting and combat feel to every connected player.

The pressure point is peak time on a mod-heavy server. When a full server of players runs custom maps, large bases and Workshop content all at once, the simulation load rises and a low-clock or oversold CPU sees its tick rate drop — producing the lag and rubber-banding that drive players away. A strong single-thread processor, generous memory and quick storage are what hold performance steady when it matters most.

CPU: single-thread speed wins

Because Unturned leans on one core for its simulation, clock speed is the single biggest factor in performance. EUGameHost runs high-clock Intel CPUs at 4GHz+ so your server has the per-core headroom it needs at peak time, without fighting noisy neighbours for cycles.

Memory and storage: DDR4 and NVMe

Unturned's memory footprint grows with player count, mods and world size, so generous DDR4 memory keeps the world responsive — our plans scale up to 32 GB. On storage, NVMe 4.0 SSDs slash the time it takes to load mods, change maps and back up your world, and every plan rides a 10 Gbps network so bandwidth is never the bottleneck for downloads.

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

EUGameHost includes always-on DDoS protection on every Unturned 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.

Unturned server hosting is priced mainly on two things: the player capacity you need and the resources your mods demand. A small survival group costs very little to run, while a busy, mod-heavy server at peak time needs more horsepower — and the pricing reflects that.

EUGameHost's Unturned plans start from £6.00 per month, sized for roughly 20, 50 and up to 100 players. 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 responsive survival and a server that feels laggy for half your players. Unturned is sensitive to latency — building, looting and combat 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.

EUGameHost offers Unturned 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 communities, 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.