ARK: Survival Ascended Server Hosting On the Decentralized Cloud
Rent a dedicated ARK: Survival Ascended server from $11.99/mo. Crossplay with PlayStation 5 and Xbox, CurseForge mods, and your tribe's world online around the clock.
Host your own ARK: Survival Ascended dedicated server on the Flux decentralized cloud. Crossplay with PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox, CurseForge mods, every official map, your own rates, and an RCON console in the dashboard. 16 to 24 GB plans from $11.99/month, with DDoS protection and nodes in 50+ countries.
Manage Everything From One Dashboard
Full control of your ARK server from the browser: rates, players, files, backups and an RCON console. No SteamCMD, no SSH.
Overview
status, address, live CPU and RAM, players and version at a glance
Live status
Whether your world is up, how many players are on it, the game build, and how much CPU, RAM and disk it uses right now.
Rates and rules
XP, taming, harvesting, breeding, imprinting, difficulty, day length and PvE or PvP, in forms instead of ini files.
RCON console
Kick and ban by EOS ID, broadcast, save the world and run any admin command.
Choose your location
Place the server in any of 50+ countries, and see which of them have room for it right now.
Scale hardware
Add CPU, RAM or disk when your tribe or your mod list outgrows the plan.
Live console
A real terminal into the container, beside the server log as it happens.
File manager
Your saves, Game.ini and every other file, straight from the browser.
World & backups
Save the world now, download it, upload one from your PC or another host, and roll back to an earlier world.
Why Host Your ARK Server on Flux?
ARK is a game about a world that keeps going: tames to feed, bases to hold, a tribe that logs in at all hours. A dedicated ARK: Survival Ascended server keeps that world running around the clock, with your own rates, your map and your mods, and it is the only way PlayStation 5 and Xbox players get a server of their own, because consoles cannot host one.
The server is also one of the heaviest to run: an Unreal Engine 5 program that holds the whole map in memory, around 11 GB before anyone joins. Every plan here starts at 16 GB of dedicated RAM, reserved for your server rather than shared, on a decentralized cloud of thousands of independent nodes across 50+ countries.
The awkward parts are handled. The Windows server runs under Proton in a container you never have to build, crossplay is on, its ports are opened and routed for you, and it updates itself with a warning to players first. Your save is synced to a standby node, and enterprise-grade DDoS protection is included on every plan.
You still get an ordinary management panel: your rates and rules in a form, an RCON console, a file browser, a live terminal and backups. Plans start at $11.99/month, billing is pay-as-you-go with no contract, and your saves are downloadable whenever you want them.
Why Host Your ARK Server With Us
Dedicated ARK: Survival Ascended hosting on the Flux decentralized cloud, with crossplay, CurseForge mods, DDoS protection and 50+ global locations
Fast Deployment
Provisioned in about 30 seconds; the first start then installs ARK, so the world is up within half an hour
DDoS Protection
Enterprise-grade DDoS protection keeps your server online during attacks
Global Server Network
Choose from 50+ countries worldwide to minimize latency for players
24/7 Monitoring
Real-time performance monitoring with automatic alerts
Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Only pay for resources you use with transparent, flexible pricing
99.9% Uptime
Distributed network architecture ensures maximum availability
Cost Effective
Save up to 70% compared to traditional cloud providers
Decentralized Infrastructure
No single point of failure across thousands of independent nodes
How to Set Up Your ARK Server
No SteamCMD, no Proton, no port forwarding. Go from sign-up to a live dedicated server in four steps.
Create an account
Sign up free in seconds with Google, email, or a Flux (ZelCore / SSP) wallet. No commitment.
Pick a plan
Choose 16, 20 or 24 GB for the size of your tribe and your mod list. You can change it later from the dashboard.
Choose a region
Select a server location from 50+ countries worldwide so your world runs close to your players.
Name it, pick a map, deploy
Give the server the name your players will search for, choose the map and deploy. The first start downloads about 12 GB of server files, so give it a while before you go looking for it.
ARK: Survival Ascended Server Plans
Dedicated ARK: Survival Ascended hosting from $11.99/month. Every plan starts at the 16 GB the server actually needs, with crossplay and mods on all of them.
ARK 16GB
ARK 20GB
ARK 24GB
We don't sell player slots. The player count on each plan is its starting Max Players and a guide to what its memory carries comfortably, not a limit we enforce: you change Max Players yourself in Deployment Settings.
*The first week is free for customers new to Flux Cloud: one free week per account, not per app or per server. It takes no card and ends on its own after 7 days unless you choose to keep the server. If you've deployed any app on Flux before, standard pricing applies. Our 30-day money-back guarantee covers your first paid month, whether or not you took the free week first.
Global ARK Server Locations
Deploy your ARK: Survival Ascended server on a decentralized network of 6,468 Flux nodes across 51 countries. Pick the closest region for the best ping.
Germany1,385
United States1,108
Finland982
France697
Denmark516
Canada381
Poland206
Russia196
United Kingdom94
Norway90
Ukraine77
United Arab Emirates53
Japan46
Chile43
Switzerland42
Australia38
Sweden37
Singapore36
Italy33
Romania32
Latvia29
Slovakia21
Portugal17
Hungary16
Spain16
Bulgaria15
Belgium13
South Africa10
Hong Kong8
Estonia8
Argentina8
Israel8
Lithuania7
Brazil6
Luxembourg5
Ireland4
Greece3
Vietnam3
Mexico3
Moldova3
Taiwan3Germany1,385United States1,108Finland982France697Denmark516Canada381Poland206Russia196United Kingdom94Norway90Ukraine77United Arab Emirates53Japan46Chile43Switzerland42Australia38Sweden37Singapore36Italy33Romania32Latvia29Slovakia21Portugal17Hungary16Spain16Bulgaria15Belgium13South Africa10Hong Kong8Estonia8Argentina8Israel8Lithuania7Brazil6Luxembourg5Ireland4Greece3Vietnam3Mexico3Moldova3Taiwan3ARK Server Features Explained
Crossplay with PlayStation 5 and Xbox
Servers start with crossplay on (-ServerPlatform=ALL), so PC players on Steam and Epic and console players all find them in the in-game unofficial list. Switch to PC only in Deployment Settings if your tribe is all on PC.
Your rates, in a form
XP, taming, harvesting, difficulty, day length and PvE or PvP live in GameUserSettings.ini, which ARK rewrites when it shuts down. The Server Settings tab stops the server, writes your changes and starts it again, so an edit never comes undone.
Mods from CurseForge
List CurseForge project IDs in load order and the server downloads and loads them on its next start. On a crossplay server, pick mods that support consoles.
An RCON console in the dashboard
See who is online, kick or ban by EOS ID, broadcast to every screen, save the world or run any admin command, with the admin password read from your deployment so nobody retypes it.
Every map, one save each
The Island, The Center, Scorched Earth, Aberration, Extinction, Ragnarok, Valguero and Genesis: Part 1, plus Astraeos and Lost Colony for players who own them. Each map keeps its own save, so switching map never overwrites a world.
ARK: Survival Ascended Server Guides
Everything you need to set up, configure and share an ARK: Survival Ascended dedicated server with your tribe.
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