Rent a Server

Rent a Windrose Dedicated Server

Want to sail with your crew without babysitting a machine? Renting a Windrose dedicated server on the Flux decentralized cloud gives you a managed, always-on world from $3.70/mo — the first month free — deployed in about 30 seconds with DDoS protection and the WindrosePlus admin suite included. Here is how renting compares to self-hosting, what it costs, and what you actually get.

Why rent instead of self-hosting?

Self-hosting Windrose is free of any hosting fee, but it is not free of work. You need a spare machine with roughly 16 GB of RAM left running 24/7, you have to forward the game and dashboard ports (7777 and 8780) through your router, and your home IP is exposed to everyone who joins. Every game update means stopping the server, pulling the new build and hoping nothing broke while your crew waits.

Renting hands all of that off. The server runs on dedicated cloud resources that stay online whether your PC is on or not, the ports are opened for you, and your home connection is never exposed. You keep full control through a web dashboard — you are renting the hardware and the uptime, not giving up the admin keys.

What renting actually costs you, and what self-hosting does

Rental starts at $3.70 a month with the first month free for accounts new to Flux Cloud, billed monthly with no contract and no setup fee. The full plan table, what each tier includes and the terms of the free month live on the Windrose hosting pricing page, which is the page to send someone who is comparing numbers.

The comparison worth making is not rental against zero. Self-hosting has a bill too, it is just paid in different currency: a machine that stays powered and online around the clock, the electricity under it, a connection you are willing to expose, and the evenings you spend patching, forwarding ports and restarting something at an inconvenient hour. A rented server converts all of that into one predictable line on a card statement.

When self-hosting is still the right call

If you already run a machine that is on anyway, if your crew is small and always in the same place, and if fiddling with the server is part of what you enjoy, self-hosting is a perfectly reasonable answer and this page is not going to talk you out of it. Renting starts to win when other people depend on the world being up: a crew in different time zones, a world that has months of progress in it, or an evening where somebody else has to be the one who fixes it.

Deploy in about 30 seconds

Renting on Flux is not a ticket queue. Pick a plan and a region, and the server is provisioned, the ports opened and WindrosePlus started for you in roughly 30 seconds — then you share the address and your crew sets sail. Because Flux is a decentralized network of thousands of independent nodes across 50+ countries, there is no single point of failure behind your world. Read more about hosting on the Flux decentralized cloud.

No lock-in, ever

A rented Windrose server should never hold your world hostage. Billing is month-to-month, you can scale up or down as your crew grows, and cancel anytime. Your Windrose save is just files: download it from the dashboard file manager whenever you want. Pay by card or with crypto, whichever suits you.

Rent a Windrose server FAQ

How much does it cost to rent a Windrose server?

Renting starts at $3.70/mo for the 2-slot Starter plan, with 4-slot and 10-slot tiers at $4.67 and $5.67. Billing is pay-as-you-go, the first month is free for new users, and the exact price is calculated at checkout from your region and resources.

Where can I rent a Windrose dedicated server?

On the Flux decentralized cloud: deploy in under 30 seconds, pick a region from 50+ countries, and get the WindrosePlus dashboard and DDoS protection on every plan.

Is renting better than self-hosting?

Renting removes the work of self-hosting — no machine to keep online 24/7, no manual updates, no forwarding ports 7777 and 8780, and no exposed home IP. Self-hosting on Linux/Docker has no hosting fee but you own the ~16 GB RAM hardware, networking and uptime.

Can I rent a server for a full 8-player crew?

Yes. The 10-slot Performance plan at $5.67/mo leaves headroom for the full 8-player co-op cap; smaller crews run comfortably on the 2- or 4-slot tiers and can scale up any time.

Can I cancel my rental any time?

Yes. There is no long-term contract, so you can scale down or cancel whenever you like, and your portable save keeps you free of any lock-in.

Ready to set sail? Rent a Windrose dedicated server on Flux → from $3.70/mo, first month free.