Pay for capacity. Nothing else.

Under a minute in most cases. Pick a game, a plan and a region, and we provision the container, allocate a port, and point a hostname at it while you are still on the page. The first start-up also downloads the game files, which for larger games can add a few minutes — you can watch the whole thing happen in the live console.

No. Every game ships as a ready-made image with sensible defaults, so a fresh server is playable the moment it finishes booting. Everything you would normally edit by hand — the game version, the world settings, the server properties — is exposed as a form field in the panel.

Yes, on every plan at no extra cost. Attack traffic is filtered upstream of the machine your server runs on, so a volumetric attack against your address is absorbed before it reaches the game process.

Yes, at any time and without rebuilding your server. Changing plans adjusts the resources allocated to your existing container, so your world, configuration and files are untouched.