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Counter-Strike 2 server hosting
Terrorists plant the bomb, Counter-Terrorists defuse it. Counter-Strike 2 brings the classic round-based tactical shooter to Source 2, with updated maps, smoke that reacts to the world and sub-tick networking.
- Up to 64 players
- Runs well on 4 GB
- Backed up every day
- Hosted in Europe (Falkenstein)
Pick a size
Every size from 2 GB runs Counter-Strike 2. Bigger sizes suit more players, and the price per GB is the same for every game.
2 GB
Suits 2–12 players 2 GB comes with 1 vCPU and 80 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$5.98/mo$0.008/h
Choose 2 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server3 GB
Suits 7–20 players 3 GB comes with 1.5 vCPU and 80 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$8.97/mo$0.012/h
Choose 3 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server4 GB
Recommended
Suits 12–32 players 4 GB comes with 2 vCPU and 80 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$11.96/mo$0.016/h
Choose 4 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server6 GB
Suits 15–45 players 6 GB comes with 3 vCPU and 80 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$17.94/mo$0.025/h
Choose 6 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server8 GB
Suits 20–50 players 8 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 80 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$23.92/mo$0.033/h
Choose 8 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server10 GB
Suits 25–60 players 10 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 80 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$29.90/mo$0.041/h
Choose 10 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server12 GB
Suits 25–64 players 12 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 96 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$35.88/mo$0.049/h
Choose 12 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server16 GB
Suits 35–64 players 16 GB comes with 4 vCPU and 100 GB of fast NVMe storage. Your world backups never use it up. Player counts are a guide for competitive 5v5 up to community deathmatch, not a limit. The server accepts up to 64 players, set in its settings.
$47.84/mo$0.066/h
Choose 16 GB for a Counter-Strike 2 server
Need more room? Extra storage is $0.10 per GB a month. Prices excl. VAT/sales tax. EU customers also pay their country's VAT (e.g. $3.74/GB at 25% in Sweden).
You pay by the hour from your credit while the server exists, even when it's stopped. Delete it any time to stop paying.
What you get
Run competitive, casual, deathmatch, wingman or arms race, starting on the map you choose. Every plan includes 80 GB of storage, enough for the game's files.
- Runs well on 4 GB, starts at 2 GB The first start downloads about 60 GB of game files.
- Room for 10 players, up to 64 in the settings
- Always the latest Counter-Strike 2
- Game modes: Competitive, casual, deathmatch, wingman, arms race
- Daily off-site backups, and one-click backups whenever you want Restore any backup from the server page. Backups don't use your server's disk.
- Kick players from the Players tab
- See who's playing from the server page
- Give friends their own access to start, stop or manage the server, without sharing your password
- Schedule restarts and other tasks, like in-game announcements and backups
More ways to run it
- If the game crashes, it starts again on its own
- Get a Discord or email alert when your server crashes, starts or stops
- Your world is yours: download a backup file any time
Getting started
Bring your world
Already playing somewhere else? Upload your saves and files as a .zip and we add them to Counter-Strike 2's files, with a backup first.
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Stop the server first, then use World in the Settings tab. Files with the same name are replaced and nothing else is deleted. You can download your world as a backup file any time.
How your friends join
Copy your server's address from the server page once it says Running.
In Counter-Strike 2, enable the developer console in Settings and open it with the ~ key.
Type connect followed by the address, and password followed by your password if you set one.
More details
Default port 27015. The address on the server page already has the right one.
Questions about Counter-Strike 2 servers
Why does the first start take so long?
Because the server downloads about 60 GB of game files first.
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Later restarts reuse them unless the server is recreated.
Do I need a Steam game server token?
Only to show up in the public server list. Friends can join by address without it.
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Create one for app 730 at steamcommunity.com/dev/managegameservers and add it in the settings.
Which game modes are available?
Competitive, casual, deathmatch, wingman and arms race.
More details
Pick one and a starting map, such as de_dust2, when you create the server.
Can I run plugins?
Not yet. Counter-Strike 2 servers run without plugins for now.
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CounterStrikeSharp isn't installed, and the Files tab reaches only the cfg folder.
What is backed up?
Your server's config files, every day and whenever you make a backup.
More details
That is the config folder. Game files aren't part of the backup, because they download again from Steam. Restore any backup from the server page.
Ready to play Counter-Strike 2 together?
Pick a size, see the price, and send your friends the address as soon as it's running.