Factorio Server Hosting UK

What Is Factorio Server Hosting?

Factorio server hosting is a managed online service that runs the official Factorio headless server on professional hardware in a datacentre, around the clock, so your factory keeps producing whether anyone is logged in or not. Every GTX Gaming Factorio server comes with your choice of 12 RAM and player tiers, daily automatic backups, enterprise DDoS protection and a web control panel that turns admin jobs like uploading mods, switching saves, editing server settings or restoring a backup into a few clicks.

Unlike a server running on a spare PC at home, a dedicated Factorio server hosted by GTX runs on high-frequency CPUs with NVMe storage, tuned for the one thing Factorio truly cares about: keeping the simulation at 60 UPS while your factory multiplies.

What Is Factorio?

Factorio is the definitive factory-building game, developed and published by Wube Software. You crash-land on an alien planet, mine resources by hand, and bootstrap your way to sprawling automated factories of belts, inserters, assemblers and trains, researching ever-better technology while defending the base against the native biters. After years as one of gaming's most celebrated early-access titles, version 1.0 launched in August 2020, and the Space Age expansion took the factory to new planets and orbital platforms in 2024.

• Automation at any scale: from your first burner drill to megabases producing thousands of science packs per minute.
• Co-operative multiplayer: build one factory together, split responsibilities, or race rocket launches on shared maps.
• A legendary mod scene: thousands of mods from quality-of-life tweaks to total overhauls like Space Exploration and Krastorio.
• Famously polished: Wube's updates are frequent, stable and famously bug-light, and the game runs on PC, Mac and Linux.

Why Rent a Factorio Server?

Wube publish free headless server software, so you could self-host from a spare machine. Most groups rent instead, for reasons that show up the first time someone logs in at 3am to find the power grid down:

• The factory never sleeps: production, research and trains keep running 24/7, and friends in any timezone can build.
• UPS headroom: Factorio's simulation is mostly single-threaded, so it needs fast cores, not many cores. Dedicated high-frequency hardware holds 60 UPS where a home PC or budget host slows the whole world down.
• No port forwarding or DDoS exposure: public servers attract attacks; enterprise mitigation at the datacentre edge keeps yours online.
• Automatic updates and backups: the server keeps itself in sync with Wube's releases, and your factory is backed up daily.

Mods & the Factorio Mod Portal

Modding is half the reason factories never stop growing. The official Mod Portal hosts thousands of mods, and our servers support them all:

• Quality of life: logistics helpers, blueprint tools and interface upgrades that most servers run as standard.
• Content mods: new machines, trains, weapons and enemies layered onto the vanilla game.
• Total overhauls: Space Exploration, Krastorio 2, Bob's and Angel's and friends, which rebuild the whole progression and love a RAM tier or two of headroom.
• Matching lists: the server and every player need the same mods and versions, so keep your list somewhere shared and let the panel do the uploads.

How to Install Mods on Your Factorio Server

Mod installation is a file-drop, not a project:

• 1. Order your server: pick a tier with headroom for your list (4GB to 8GB covers most modded games) and it's live in under a minute.
• 2. Download your mods: grab them from the Mod Portal, or copy the mods folder straight out of your own Factorio installation.
• 3. Upload: drop the mod zips into the server's mods folder with the control panel's file manager or SFTP.
• 4. Restart and play: the server loads the list on boot; players with matching mods connect straight in.
• 5. Stuck? Our 24/7 team untangles version mismatches and mod conflicts every day, and can do the whole install for you.

Versions, Space Age & Experimental Releases

Factorio multiplayer requires the server and every player to run the same version, which makes version control a hosting feature rather than a footnote. Your GTX server runs the current stable release by default and updates with Wube's releases. Want to ride the cutting edge? Switch to the experimental branch. Playing the Space Age expansion? Worlds using it are supported, and your save carries its mod and DLC requirements with it. If an update lands mid-campaign, the panel's one-click update keeps the server matched to your group.

How Much Does Factorio Server Hosting Cost in the UK?

Pricing scales with the pair of resources that matter: RAM and the player allowance that comes with it. Representative tiers:

• 2GB / 30 players: from £7.50/mo. Early factories and small friend groups.
• 3GB / 40 players: from £10.00/mo. The most popular plan, vanilla worlds through the rocket launch.
• 4GB / 60 players: from £13.00/mo. Bigger vanilla factories and light mods.
• 8GB / 100 players: from £18.50/mo. Modded factories and busy community maps.
• 12GB / 140 players: from £23.50/mo. Large modded communities.
• 16GB / 180 players: from £30.50/mo. Megabases and overhaul mods.
• 32GB / 320 players: from £48.99/mo. Maximum power for giant public factories.

All plans include instant setup, DDoS protection, daily automatic backups, full mod support, up to 100GB of NVMe storage free and 24/7 support, with no setup fees and no contracts. Billing is monthly and you can change tier or cancel at any time.

What Hardware Does Factorio Server Hosting Need?

Factorio is one of the most CPU-honest games in hosting: the simulation that moves every item on every belt runs mostly on a single thread, and the moment the CPU can't finish a tick in time, UPS drops below 60 and the entire world slows down for everyone. Core count barely helps; clock speed is everything. Budget hosts put factories on oversubscribed shared cores, and it shows exactly when your base gets interesting. GTX Gaming Factorio servers run on:

• High-frequency CPUs: fast modern cores hold 60 UPS while your factory multiplies.
• RAM sized to your world: 12 tiers from 2GB to 32GB, because megabases and overhaul mods eat memory long before player count does.
• NVMe storage: up to 100GB free, so autosaves are quick instead of world-freezing.
• CPU priority and clock boosts: optional High and Realtime priority plus +5% to +20% clock tiers squeeze out extra headroom for the biggest bases.

Locations for Factorio Server Hosting

Factorio's multiplayer uses latency hiding to keep building feel snappy, but a low ping still makes everything better, from combat to belt surgery. GTX Gaming runs Factorio server hosting from a UK datacentre in London plus 15 more locations worldwide: Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Helsinki in Europe; New York, Ashburn, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles, Portland and Quebec in North America; and Sydney and Singapore for Oceania and Asia. Use the live ping test above to find the lowest-latency location for your group, pick it at checkout, and if you get it wrong our support team can migrate your server.

Factorio Server Hosting Glossary

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

Setup Guides & Help for Your Factorio Server

Once your Factorio server is live, our knowledge base and support team cover the common tasks: first boot, editing server settings and the admin list, uploading mods and saves, scheduling restarts and getting your group connected. Our 24/7 support team is on live chat and tickets for anything the guides don't cover:

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