Enshrouded Server Hosting Canada

What Is Enshrouded Server Hosting?

Enshrouded server hosting is a managed service that runs the official Enshrouded dedicated server on professional hardware in a datacentre, around the clock, so your world stays online whether or not you are at your PC. Every GTX Gaming Enshrouded server includes up to 5GB of RAM, up to 100GB of NVMe storage, daily automatic backups, enterprise DDoS protection and a web control panel that turns jobs like restarting the server, editing the configuration file or restoring a backup into a few clicks.

People look for it as an Enshrouded dedicated server, an Enshrouded game server or simply an Enshrouded server to rent, and they all mean the same thing: a private, always-on home for your own Enshrouded server, with your rules, your settings and your friends.

What Is Enshrouded?

Enshrouded is a co-op survival crafting action RPG from the German studio Keen Games, built on the studio's own Holistic engine. You play a Flameborn, woken in a fallen kingdom that has been swallowed by a corrupting fog called the Shroud, and set out to survive, fight and rebuild. The game entered Early Access on Steam on 24 January 2024, and its full 1.0 release is planned for 15 October 2026.

• Survive the Shroud: the fog hides the best loot and the worst enemies, and your time inside it is limited.
• Build anything: a voxel-based building system lets you shape terrain and raise anything from a hut to a great hall.
• Action RPG combat: dodge, parry and cast your way through beasts and bosses, with a large, open skill tree to shape your character.
• Co-op for up to 16: the whole game can be played solo, but it is designed to be shared with friends.

Enshrouded is a co-operative game. Keen Games says there is no PvP mode and none is currently planned, so a server is a shared world to explore and build in together.

Why Rent an Enshrouded Server?

Enshrouded lets one player host a session from their own PC, and the dedicated server software comes with the game on Steam, so you could run it from a spare machine at home. Most groups rent an Enshrouded server instead, for reasons that show up the first time the host logs off in the middle of a build:

• Always online: the world runs 24 hours a day, so friends in any timezone can log in without waiting for the host.
• Nothing to run at home: Keen Games recommends a machine with 16GB of RAM and a fast six to eight core CPU for the dedicated server. Renting leaves your own PC free for the game itself.
• Proper hardware: high-frequency CPUs and NVMe storage in a datacentre, with DDoS protection at the network edge.
• Backups and support: daily automatic backups and a 24/7 support team mean a bad setting or a broken save is an inconvenience, not a disaster.

Getting Started & Joining Your Enshrouded Server

Your server is set up the moment you order and starts on the Default difficulty preset. From there, getting everyone into the world typically looks like this:

• Order: choose your slots and location, and your server is set up instantly.
• Name it: give the server its own name in the configuration file so it is easy to find.
• Set your passwords: decide which roles you want and give each its own password.
• Join: in Enshrouded choose Join from the main menu, make sure dedicated servers are shown in the server filter and search for your server name.

Mark the server as a favourite and it sorts to the top of the list next time. If it does not show up in the in-game browser, add the IP address and port from your control panel as a favourite in the Steam client under View, Game Servers.

Enshrouded Server Settings & Difficulty Presets

An Enshrouded dedicated server is configured through a single file, enshrouded_server.json, which you edit from Configuration Files in the control panel. It holds the server name, the slot count, voice and text chat options and the difficulty preset. Keen Games documents every option in its dedicated server configuration guide. The presets are:

• Default: the standard experience, recommended for first-time players.
• Relaxed: fewer enemies and more resources and loot, for groups most interested in base building and light-hearted adventuring.
• Hard: more enemies, and more aggressive ones, for a tougher combat experience.
• Survival: additional survival mechanics on top of more aggressive enemies.
• Custom: unlocks the individual settings, so you can tune the game one value at a time.

With Custom selected you can adjust player health, mana and stamina, how long characters can stay in the Shroud, the number of enemies and how many attack at once, experience gain, mining and resource yields, plant growth, workshop speed, weapon durability, hunger and the length of day and night. Restart the server after saving and the new rules apply to everyone.

Player Roles & Passwords on an Enshrouded Server

Instead of one password for the whole server, Enshrouded uses roles. Each user group in the configuration file has its own password and its own permissions, and the password a player types when joining decides which role they get. A typical setup has four:

• Admin: full access, including kicking and banning players and placing or removing Flame Altars.
• Friend: can use chests, build and terraform, but cannot extend the base with new Flame Altars.
• Guest: can fight, loot and explore, but cannot open chests or change your bases.
• Visitor: can look around, but cannot change the world or your bases.

You can change what each group is allowed to do and reserve slots for a group, so your regulars always have a place even when the server is busy.

World Saves, Backups & Moving Your Enshrouded World

Enshrouded splits its saves in two. The world, with everything you have built and unlocked in it, is stored on the server and saved every five minutes. Characters are stored on each player's own PC, so a character, with its equipment and skills, can move between servers.

That split makes moving an existing world simple: upload the world save files to your server's save folder through the File Manager or SFTP, restart, and everyone joins with the character they already have. On top of the game's own saves, GTX Gaming takes daily automatic backups that you can restore from the Backup Manager, and Scheduled Tasks let you add restarts or extra backups on a timer.

How Much Does Enshrouded Server Hosting Cost in Canada?

Pricing is simple: you pay for the number of player slots, with up to 5GB of RAM and up to 100GB of NVMe storage included on every server:

• 4 slots: from CA$7.69/mo. Solo players, duos and a small party.
• 6 slots: from CA$10.67/mo. A close group of friends.
• 8 slots: from CA$13.52/mo. A regular group with room for guests.
• 10 slots: from CA$16.37/mo. Two parties exploring at once.
• 12 slots: from CA$18.79/mo. Bigger communities.
• 14 slots: from CA$21.17/mo. Busy community servers.
• 16 slots: from CA$23.34/mo. The full 16 players the game supports.

All plans include instant setup, DDoS protection, daily automatic backups and 24/7 support, with no setup fee and no contract. Billing is monthly by default, with three-month, six-month and yearly cycles available at a discount, and you can change plan or cancel at any time.

How Many Slots & How Much RAM Does an Enshrouded Server Need?

Choose a slot for everyone who will be online at the same time, not for everyone who has ever been invited: a group of ten where six play on a typical evening is comfortable on six or eight slots. On memory, Keen Games states that the dedicated server uses around 4.4GB when idle, plus up to 100MB for each connected player, and should not need more than about 6GB in total. The up to 5GB included with every server therefore suits smaller groups, and the 8GB upgrade, which adds CA$5.32/mo, gives a busy server of up to 16 players comfortable headroom. The control panel shows live memory use, so the sensible approach is to start on the included allocation, watch the graph once your group is playing, and upgrade from your client area in a couple of clicks if you are running close to the limit.

Locations for Enshrouded Server Hosting

Combat in Enshrouded rewards well-timed dodges and parries, so a low ping matters: host close to your players. GTX Gaming runs Enshrouded server hosting from a Canadian datacentre in Quebec plus 17 more locations worldwide: New York, Ashburn, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles and Portland in the USA; London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Madrid in Europe; Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore and Mumbai in Asia-Pacific; plus Moscow. Some locations carry a surcharge, shown at checkout. Use the live ping test above to find the lowest-latency location for your group, pick it at checkout, and if you need to move later our support team can migrate your server.

Enshrouded Server Hosting Glossary

Quick definitions of the terms you'll meet across Enshrouded, our control panel and the knowledge base:

Setup Guides & Help for Your Enshrouded Server

Once your Enshrouded server is live, our Enshrouded guides and support team cover the common tasks: naming your server, setting role passwords, choosing a difficulty preset, uploading a world, scheduling restarts and restoring a backup. Our 24/7 support team is on live chat and tickets for anything the guides don't cover:

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