COMMUNITY FIRST
We listen to Discord. Half the features we ship started as a vote in #suggestions. The roadmap is public.
EST. 2024 · MADE BY GAMERS
FREE GAME SERVERS.
NO TRICKS. JUST PLAY.
We host Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, and Project Zomboid servers because gaming should be accessible to everyone, not gated behind a credit-card field.
// 01 — WHY WE EXIST
WHY GAMING4FREE
EXISTS
Built in 2024 by a small crew who got priced out of hosting their own LAN one too many times.
// THE STORY
It started in 2024 with a simple idea: nobody should be priced out of playing with friends. Most hosting plans run $8–$20/month, expect a card up front, and lock the basics behind premium tiers. Splitting that across a friend group is fine — until someone moves, someone forgets, and the world goes dark.
Today, our infrastructure runs across EU-1, EU-2 and US-East data centers, with 99.5% uptime and a renewal model that keeps active worlds online. There's no card on signup, no auto-charge, no 30-day trick. Premium is there for people who outgrow the free tier — and that's it.
// 02 — VALUES
WHAT WE BELIEVE
ABOUT HOSTING
Four principles we use when deciding what to ship, what to charge for, and what to keep free.
TRANSPARENCY
Status page is live, not a marketing artifact. Outages get postmortems. The free-tier limits are spelled out, not hidden.
RELIABILITY
Real metal in real datacenters with DDoS scrubbing, daily snapshots, and 99.5% uptime. Free doesn't mean fragile.
ACCESSIBILITY
Free first, everywhere we can. No card on signup. Browser-based panel, keyboard navigable, region-routed for low ping.
// 03 — THE PARTY
MEET THE TEAM
A coalition of system admins, package devs, and gamers spinning game servers since the 2010s.
JX
JAXON
// FOUNDER
Ex-Mojang ops. Architected the panel, the queue, and the renewal loop. Plays SkyFactory at 3 AM.
@jaxonSP
SPYRO
// CHIEF ENG
Container orchestration, autoscaler, mod loaders. Wrote our zero-downtime migrator over a weekend.
@spyroPA
PIXELLA
// DESIGN
Ran the panel UI redesign. Pushes for fewer modals, more pixel art. Maintains our public asset library.
@pixellaCO
COBALT
// COMMUNITY
Runs our Discord (8.4k strong). Triages bug reports, hosts the monthly tournament, knows everyone by handle.
@cobaltBT
BYTE
// SECURITY
DDoS mitigation, intrusion detection, secrets management. Gave a talk at NLnet on game-server abuse.
@byte// 04 — UNDER THE HOOD
INFRASTRUCTURE
& SECURITY
We rent the boxes, but the orchestration, isolation, and patches are all us. No fluff stack.
EU + US DATACENTERS
Three regions: EU-1 (Frankfurt), EU-2 (Helsinki), US-East (Ashburn). Tier III with redundant power and 10 Gbps uplinks. We pick the closest node automatically.
DDOS PROTECTION
Always-on scrubbing at the edge. Layer-3/4 attacks absorbed before they reach your node. Game-aware Layer-7 filters for Minecraft and Source.
SECURITY AUDITS
Quarterly audits from a third-party security firm. Every container is sandboxed, secrets are managed in Vault, and SSH keys rotate every 30 days.
// 05 — KEEP IT FREE
SUPPORT GAMING4FREE
Donations cover ~30% of our hosting. Going premium covers the rest. No pressure either way.
BUY US A COFFEE
Every dollar goes straight to server bills. No salaries, no lattes — just RAM and bandwidth.
JOIN THE
COMMUNITY
8,400+ players, modders, and admins on Discord. Vote on the next supported game. Get help, share builds, find a crew.
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