Rent a high-performance DayZ server on fast hardware. Instant 60-second setup, free mods, always-on DDoS protection and 24/7 support — from $14.99/mo.
ONLINEEvery 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.
Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Warsaw, Stockholm, Milan and Madrid — host close to your players for low ping.
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.
Most of the work on a DayZ server happens in three files. serverDZ.cfg holds the hostname, password, maxPlayers, first-person-only mode, day and night speed, and the mission that loads through the template line: dayzOffline.chernarusplus, dayzOffline.enoch for Livonia or dayzOffline.sakhal. In the mission folder, db/types.xml runs the Central Economy. Every item there has a nominal and min count plus lifetime and restock timers, so you get a loot-rich PvP server or a starving hardcore one by editing those numbers. cfggameplay.json, switched on with enableCfgGameplayFile = 1, adjusts stamina, base-building damage and placement rules without a mod.
Persistence is the other half of the job. Tents, stashes and bases are saved to the server's storage folder, and cfgeconomycore.xml sets how often the economy writes its own persistence backups and how many it keeps. Wipes are your call. When Frostline changed loot and cargo space, Bohemia wiped its official servers and recommended that community owners do the same. The file manager and SFTP give you every one of these files, and scheduled backups and scheduled tasks handle timed copies and restarts.
For sizing, Starter's 6 GB matches the memory figure in Bohemia's requirements table below, which is enough for a vanilla map. Plus (10 GB) and Pro (14 GB) leave headroom for Workshop mod stacks, and their 4 vCPUs fit the stock dayzsettings.xml, which ships with maxcores="4".
DayZ mods are Steam Workshop items, and the server loads them in two ways. -mod= is for mods that players download as well, and -serverMod= is for server-side code that is never sent to clients. Bohemia's Linux hosting guide loads Community Framework with Community Online Tools as its worked example. A mod's new items only spawn once they have entries in the Central Economy files. The one-click installer pulls Workshop mods onto the server, and you can still upload anything else over SFTP.
Your DayZ server comes with the full GGameHost panel. Click through to see what you get.
Five steps, about two minutes. No command line, no port forwarding.
Choose the DayZ plan that matches your group. Starter suits a small private world; you can upgrade in one click later without losing anything.
There is nothing to install and no server to configure by hand. Payment goes through and your machine provisions itself in under a minute.
Your login is the email you signed up with. The panel shows live CPU and RAM, a real console, and one big Start button.
Pick your version, set the slots and allocate 6–10 GB. Mods and plugins install from the panel — no FTP, no config files by hand.
Copy the address from the panel and send it to your group. Plans here run up to 60+ slots. That is the whole job — the server stays online whether or not you are.
Seven European locations, each with always-on DDoS protection and NVMe storage.
Pick the city closest to most of your DayZ players and tell us when you order — we deploy your server there.
See all locations →DayZ is a Heavy-class game. For a smooth experience we recommend 6–10 GB RAM, scaling with player count and mods. CPU clock speed matters most for tick rate — our high-clock AMD Ryzen hardware keeps DayZ fast even under load, and you can upgrade in one click as your community grows.
Bohemia publishes a single requirements table for the DayZ dedicated server. These are the figures to size a plan against:
| Resource | Documented requirement |
|---|---|
| OS | Windows Server 12-16 or Windows 10 or greater, or Linux |
| Processor | Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz, or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 2.5 GB space on the drive, with an SSD for logs and install noted as highly recommended |
The dedicated server is its own Steam application, separate from the DayZ game itself, so what the host installs and keeps updated is the server build rather than your copy of the game.
DayZ mods are Steam Workshop content, and they are enabled at the file level. The mod's folder has to exist in the server root, the keys that ship with it have to end up in the server's own keys/ directory, and the mod has to be named on the server's startup command line. A plan is mod-capable when it gives you those two things: file access to the server root and control over the startup parameters.
Both client-facing mods and server-side-only mods are covered, using a different startup switch for each, and signature checking of mod content is controlled by the verifySignatures setting in the server config.
Worth checking before you commit: how restarts are handled. Bohemia recommends the graceful shutdown method rather than stopping the process outright, to avoid negative side effects on player characters and on server storage saving. The shutdown is scheduled from a file inside the mission folder and can warn players in-game on a countdown before it happens.
In practice that means you want write access to the mission folder and control over when the server stops, rather than a fixed restart schedule you cannot adjust.
