Valheim Server Hosting
on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Valheim has spent years building toward its 1.0 release, adding entire biomes, Mistlands and then Ashlands, on the way to Deep North, the final chapter before Iron Gate calls the game complete. That slow-burn development means the worlds groups have been building for years just keep growing, and a Valheim server built for the long haul needs hardware that can carry a world file that never stops expanding.

Valheim's dedicated server is less about raw player-count load and more about terrain: every biome explored, every terraformed hill, and every base built adds permanent data to the world file, and that file has to be read and written constantly as your group plays. Expanse Host runs every Valheim server on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X hardware with NVMe SSD storage specifically to keep that world-file I/O fast, so a two-year-old world with a fully terraformed home base loads exactly as quickly as a fresh one.

A 4GB plan covers a typical group of up to 5 players comfortably, but groups planning to run heavy mod stacks or explore aggressively into the later biomes should size up to 8GB or 12GB, since mods add real memory overhead on top of the base world simulation. Valheim also supports full crossplay between Steam and Xbox/Game Pass, so mixed-platform groups can play together on the same Expanse server without any workarounds.

Valheim doesn't use Steam Workshop. Its mod ecosystem runs on BepInEx, installed and managed through Thunderstore or Nexus Mods, and Expanse gives you direct file manager access to install, update, or remove BepInEx plugins yourself. Every plan also includes daily automated backups, critical for a world you might be building for years, enterprise DDoS protection via G-Core rated for 200+ Tbps attacks, and a choice of New York, Frankfurt, Singapore, or Malaysia to keep latency low for your whole crew. If your group eventually wants a change of pace, our game switch feature covers 100+ other titles on the same server at no extra cost. Plans start at $8/mo for 4GB RAM.