Hosting Providers

The hosting providers listed below are not affiliated with vankrupt games.

Provider              | Base CPU | Details
Arctic VR             | 4.5 GHz  | https://www.arctic-vr.com/server-hosting
Amazon Web Services   | 4.0 GHz  | https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/z1d/
VULTR                 | 4.0 GHz  | https://www.vultr.com/products/high-frequency-compute/
packet.com            | 3.5 GHz  | https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/c1-small/       
Google Cloud Platform | 3.2 GHz  | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/cpu-platforms

ARCTIC VR

Arctic VR is the largest and longest running Pavlov VR hosting provider. The In-Game Admin Menu is exclusive to the ArcticVR hosting service. They offer EU, NA East and NA West servers for both shack and PCVR. ArcticVR offers the fastest Pavlov servers as well as DDos Protection, RCON remote management, custom maps, low pings, unlimited slots, and expert support.

Website: https://www.arctic-vr.com/server-hosting

VULTR

Consider using a referral from the community:

Carlos: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8615589-6G

Carrot: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8689348

Archaeo: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8653652-6G

Cheeto: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8717358

For a Pavlov Shack server, I recommend minimum Cloud Compute, Intel High Performance, Ubuntu 20.04, and disabled automatic backups. At the time, this was $6/m. Some of the cheap options have 1TB bandwidth, and some have 2TB+. If it's a personal server, 1TB could be fine, but 2TB should be safe.

Google Cloud Platform (90 day free credit available)

The below configuration is successfully running 4 pavlov PC instances with ~15 total maps and up to 24 players per server. If you want more maps use larger boot disk. Both can dynamically be scaled based on popularity.

Menu -> compute engine -> VM instances
create instance
- region: wherever you like
- machine type: n1-highcpu-4 (4 vCPUs, 3.6 GB memory)
- boot disk: Ubuntu 20.04
- boot disk -> size: 25gb
- network tags: pavlov-server
- [create]


Menu -> Vpc network -> firewall rules
[Create firewall rule]
Name: pavlov server
Target Tags: pavlov-server
Source IP Ranges: 0.0.0.0/0
Protocols and Ports -> Specified protocols and ports -> UDP: 7777, 8177 (Shack and PC)
Protocols and Ports -> Specified protocols and ports -> TCP: 7777, 8177 (Shack-only)
Protocols and Ports -> Specified protocols and ports -> TCP: {RCON port - default 9100}
[save]

Amazon Web Services (30 day free credit available)

Login -> Change Region: Choose your region
Services -> Compute -> EC2 -> Create
Choose an AMI: Ubuntu 18.04
Instance Type: z1d.large

Instance Details -> Tenancy: Dedicated (optional: this will more than triple the cost)

Storage: 50gb disk (or whatever, you're in control of the map roster)

Security Groups:
Create a new Security Group
Security group name: pavlov-server
Description: pavlov server
Rules:
Type: Custom ICMP Rule - IPV4 / Protocol: Echo Request
Type: Custom UDP Rule / Port Range: 7777 / Source: 0.0.0.0/0
Type: Custom UDP Rule / Port Range: 8177 / Source: 0.0.0.0/0
Type: SSH (optional, but I assume you wanna SSH in..)

Launch -> Create new Keypair -> Download -> Launch

Once it's started, SSH in like:
$ ssh -i your-key.pem ubuntu@you-server-details.amazonaws.com

(I use cmder on Windows, if you're using putty or mobaxterm or something, might be different)