Icarus server hosting · No player cap from us

Your Icarus world, online in about a minute.

Pick Open World or Missions, and play behind five layers of DDoS protection. No player cap from us — up to 8, Icarus's own maximum.

  • Live in about a minute
  • Five-layer DDoS defense
  • Daily restore points
  • Cancel or resize anytime
★Running a big community? Custom servers →
Deploy IcarusLive in about a minute
Ready to deploy
Server type
Players 4
No player cap from us · plan sizes are recommendations, not caps
Region
2 vCPU6 GB RAM30 GB NVMe
$12.99first term

· Cancel anytime

Five-layer DDoS defense

Lag-free, even under attack.

Game servers are DDoS magnets: a rival server, a banned player or a bored kid can flood yours. Every Nxeon game server sits behind the Nxeon Shield, so attack traffic is scrubbed before it ever reaches your world.

Nxeon Shield

Diagram: traffic from the internet passes through Cloudflare, AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, OVHcloud VAC and NX Sentinel. Attack traffic is removed at each layer, and only clean traffic reaches your isolated server.

  1. 01Global Anycast EdgeCloudflare · L3 · L4 · L7

    Floods are absorbed across a planet-scale anycast network, hundreds of cities deep, long before they reach our regions.

  2. 02Hyperscale Flood AbsorptionAWS Shield · L3 · L4

    Elastic hyperscale capacity soaks up SYN floods, UDP reflection and amplification attacks at the network layer.

  3. 03Adaptive Traffic ProfilingAzure DDoS Protection · L3 · L4

    Machine-learned traffic baselines tune mitigation to each workload in real time, with no manual thresholds to babysit.

  4. 04Game-Grade ScrubbingOVHcloud VAC · L3 · L4 · UDP

    Purpose-built UDP filtering keeps game ticks smooth and players connected, even in the middle of an attack.

  5. 05ProprietaryNX Sentinel™Nxeon · L3 to L7

    Our in-house engine fingerprints every flow, applies zero-trust packet inspection and adaptive rate-shaping, and self-tunes firewall rules the moment attack patterns shift.

Choose your world

Pick a size, tell us how you’ll play, and see exactly how much room you’ll have.

CPU2 vCPU
Memory6 GB
NVMe storage30 GB
Will it fit?Set how you’ll play
Players 4
Comfortable
Per month$12.99first term, then $18.70/mo · $3.25 per player at 4
Deploy 6 GB · $12.99/mo
Resize anytimeCancel anytimeDaily restore pointsDDoS protected
★ Custom and enterprise

Running a big community?

When you outgrow 12 GB, or need a whole network of Icarus servers, we’ll design a setup around your players and your growth. Tell us what you’re running and we’ll size and quote it.

More resources than our largest planMulti-server networks and proxiesHelp moving existing worldsA team that knows your setup

Every server type, one switch

Choose how your Icarus server runs when you deploy it.

Open World

Persistent Prometheus open-world server.

From click to playing in about a minute

  1. 0sPick your world

    Server type and size, all on one page.

  2. ~10sCheck out

    Pay by card or wallet. No setup fees.

  3. ~45sYour server boots

    We install Icarus.

  4. ~60sJoin and play

    Copy your address into the game and you’re in.

Before you deploy

The questions people ask right before they start.

Is there a player limit?

No player cap from us — up to 8, Icarus's own maximum. Every plan's player number is only a recommendation for smooth performance on that plan's memory and CPU; you set your server's own max players in Settings.

Which size do I need?

Icarus comes in 3 sizes: 6 GB (recommended for about 4 players) at $12.99 a month (first term, then $18.70), 8 GB (recommended for about 6 players) at $18.99 a month (first term, then $27.34) and 12 GB (recommended for about 8 players) at $24.99 a month (first term, then $35.98). The picker above recommends one for your player count, and you can resize later.

Will my server lag?

Your server runs on NVMe hardware, and the size picker recommends enough memory for your players. If you grow, resize from the panel in a click.

What happens if my server gets attacked?

Every game server sits behind the Nxeon Shield: five layers of DDoS filtering that scrub attack traffic before it reaches your world.

Are my worlds backed up?

Switch on scheduled backups in your server’s panel and it keeps the last 2 daily restore points, ready to roll back to.

Can I install mods and plugins?

Icarus modding is community-run; deep server-side mod support is limited compared with Workshop-native titles. Full file access to configs and prospect/session settings; verify mod compatibility before relying on it.

Can I change size later?

Yes. Resize from the panel whenever your community is ready.

Where are the servers?

Icarus servers run in Singapore, Germany and Canada. Pick the region closest to most of your players when you deploy.

Do you offer custom servers for big communities?

Yes. If you need more than 12 GB, a network of linked servers or dedicated hardware, talk to us and we’ll size and quote a custom setup.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There’s no lock-in.

Your world is waiting.

Live in about a minute. DDoS protection and daily restore points included. Cancel anytime.