Rent a high-performance Garry's Mod server on fast hardware. Instant 60-second setup, free mods, always-on DDoS protection and 24/7 support — from $10.99/mo.
Every plan includes DDoS protection, NVMe storage, one-click mods and 24/7 support. Upgrade or downgrade anytime — no setup fees.
Prices in USD. * Slots are performance-based, not licence-capped. 7-day money-back guarantee.
Premium hardware, real protection and a control panel built for gamers — not sysadmins.
Your server is online in under 60 seconds — pick a plan, pay, play. No waiting, no manual config.
Always-on, multi-Tbps filtering on every plan and location keeps your world online through any attack.
High-clock AMD Ryzen cores and NVMe SSD storage deliver zero-lag tick rates and fast world loads.
High-performance hardware with single-digit ping and global locations available on request.
Install modpacks and plugins straight from the control panel — no files, no fuss.
Real humans on live chat and tickets, with a 7-day money-back guarantee on every plan.
Garry's Mod is the Source-engine sandbox that became a platform — DarkRP, TTT, Prop Hunt, Sandbox and thousands of Workshop addons. A dedicated GMod server lets you pick a gamemode and build a community around it. Pick a plan and your Garry's Mod server deploys in under 60 seconds — no manual install, no command line, no shared lobbies. It ships ready for Steam Workshop addons and Lua gamemodes, so you can shape the server exactly how your community plays.
We run Garry's Mod on high-clock AMD Ryzen CPUs with NVMe SSD storage, wrapped in always-on multi-Tbps DDoS protection — for smooth tick rates, fast world loads and single-digit ping. We recommend around 2–6 GB of RAM, scaling with players and mods. Plans scale to 16–128 slots.
Manage everything from a modern control panel: a live console, one-click mod & plugin installer, visual config editor, scheduled automatic backups — plus real 24/7 human support whenever you need it.
Your Garry's Mod server supports Steam Workshop addons and Lua gamemodes — install straight from the panel or upload your own with full file access. No SSH, no headaches, and you can upgrade RAM in one click if a big modpack needs more.
Your Garry's Mod server comes with the full GGameHost panel. Click through to see what you get.
Your Garry's Mod server, online in three simple steps.
Pick the Garry's Mod plan that fits your community and budget. Not sure? Start small — upgrade in one click anytime.
Checkout and your server provisions automatically in under 60 seconds, with console access right away.
Install mods, tweak settings, then share your server address and start playing with friends.
Tuned routing and high-clock hardware keep response times low for every player.
Fast tick rates and snappy response — ideal for competitive and modded play.
Always-on, multi-Tbps filtering included on every server.
Need a specific region for your community? Just ask and we will provision it.
Garry's Mod is a Medium-class game. For a smooth experience we recommend 2–6 GB RAM, scaling with player count and mods. CPU clock speed matters most for tick rate — our high-clock AMD Ryzen hardware keeps Garry's Mod fast even under load, and you can upgrade in one click as your community grows.
The dedicated server is its own Steam application — Facepunch documents it as app 4020 — and it downloads through SteamCMD with an anonymous login, so running one does not tie up a copy of the game on a personal Steam account.
It does need a Game Server Login Token. The wiki says a token verifies game ownership, ensures clients can still connect after the server's IP changes, and helps prevent fake servers. Since the May 2020 update it calls the setting mandatory for all Garry's Mod servers and warns that servers without one suffer a severe penalty in server list ranking.
steamcommunity.com/dev/managegameservers. The “App ID of the base game” field takes 4000 — the base game, not the 4020 server application.Steam lists Garry's Mod for Windows, macOS and SteamOS + Linux, and Cross-Platform Multiplayer appears among the features on its store page alongside Online PvP, LAN PvP, Online Co-op and LAN Co-op.
Steam's stated client requirements are a 2 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM and 10 GB of storage as a minimum, and a 2.5 GHz processor, 8 GB of RAM and 25 GB of storage as recommended. Those figures describe each player's own machine, not the server.
For the server itself, the Garry's Mod wiki documents Windows and Linux builds and states that macOS dedicated servers are no longer shipped.
Two things scale server load beyond the slot count.
Simulation rate. The target tick rate is set with the -tickrate startup parameter and decides how many simulation steps run each second; raising it adds work for every connected player.
Physics allowance. Sandbox play is bounded by spawn limits as well as by slots. A widely used reference configuration ships sbox_maxprops 100 and sbox_maxragdolls 50; loosening those is what turns a quiet build server into a physics-heavy one.
Worth checking with any host: Facepunch publishes the x86-64 build on its own SteamCMD branch rather than on public, so if you plan to run that build, confirm you can switch branches yourself.
