RuneScape: Dragonwilds Server Hosting On the Decentralized Cloud

RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a co-op game for a small, committed group — six players is as large as a world gets. That makes the world itself the thing worth protecting. Host it from your own game and it exists only while you are playing, and everyone else is dropped the moment you stop. A dedicated Dragonwilds server keeps Ashenfall running around the clock, so your group logs in on its own schedule and nobody's progress depends on one person being at their desk.

Flux is a decentralized cloud that runs on thousands of independent nodes across 50+ countries, rather than in a single company's datacentre. There is no shared centre to lose: the failure of any one node is a local event, not an outage. Your plan reserves its own CPU and RAM instead of taking a slice of a shared box — which matters more here than in most games, because a Dragonwilds server is sized at about 2 GB plus 1 GB per player and has no slack to give away.

The awkward parts of running one are handled. The single UDP port the game needs is opened and routed with the same number inside and out — the mismatch that otherwise drops joining players back to the title screen with nothing in the log to explain it. Enterprise-grade DDoS protection is included on every plan. And the server revalidates its game files against Steam on every start, so moving onto a new build — the 1.0 release included — is a restart rather than a maintenance job.

You still get an ordinary management panel: start, stop and restart the server, change its settings, browse and edit the files, open a live terminal, and take backups of your world. Plans start at $5.49/month, billing is pay-as-you-go with no contract, and your world files are downloadable whenever you want them — there is nothing to be locked into.