High-Frequency Gaming Hardware • AS57050

Dedicated Game Servers in Romania

Name: DreamServer Dedicated Game Servers
Brand: DreamServer
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.9 (28 reviews)

Deploy low-latency dedicated game servers engineered for competitive multiplayer hosting. High-frequency CPUs (Intel i7-3770, i7-4790, i9-10900K, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X), Cisco Nexus vPC active-active networking, free DSIX peering with direct access to major Romanian ISPs, and RTBH DDoS mitigation on our BGP uplinks.

Purpose-built for 128-tick Counter-Strike 2, Minecraft (Paper/Forge/Fabric), GTA SA-MP & open.mp, FiveM, Rust, ARK, Valheim, Garry's Mod and every modded community stack you can run on Linux or Windows Server.

128-Tick Ready Free DSIX Peering RTBH DDoS Mitigation AS57050 Hosting Since 2009

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Game Server Network Architecture

Every game server is dual-homed through Cisco Nexus switches over active-active vPC uplinks, so both ports forward traffic in parallel and a link or switch failure is absorbed without a single dropped packet. The fabric is engineered for sub-millisecond intra-datacenter latency, line-rate 10 Gbps throughput and symmetric forwarding, which is exactly what 128-tick FPS servers, real-time MMOs and competitive battle-royale lobbies need. Paired with free DSIX peering to every major Romanian ISP, your players reach the server on the shortest possible path, tick after tick.

Game Servers with Dual-Port Active-Active vPC and Cisco Nexus Ultra-Low-Latency Switches

Included with Every Game Server

Peer for Free at DSIX, Low Ping to Every Romanian ISP

Every dedicated game server ships with a free port to the DSIX Internet Exchange (AS58218). That means direct BGP peering with major Romanian ISPs, regional content networks, and hosting providers: no transit hops, no extra cost, and no bandwidth cap. Your players connect over the shortest possible path, cutting ping spikes and jitter during 128-tick action.

<5 ms

Typical ping from Romanian ISPs

10–25 ms

Balkans & Central Europe

0 €

DSIX peering fee, free forever

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Game Server Plans

High-frequency dedicated game servers with Cisco Nexus vPC active-active networking, optimized for competitive gaming, modded servers, and always-on game hosting. Full root access, your choice of OS, and 24/7 engineering support included.

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HyperCore i9

Intel i9-10900K

10 Cores / 20 Threads

128 GB RAM

NIC: Intel X710-DA

2x10 Gbps Active-Active

20 TB/mo

20 IPv4 | 20 IPv6

128 GB OS SSD

5x SATA + 3x NVMe

DC: DreamServer, Bucharest

🚫 Sold Out

Ryzen Fury

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

12 Cores / 24 Threads

128 GB RAM

NIC: Intel X710-DA

2x10 Gbps Active-Active

20 TB/mo

20 IPv4 | 20 IPv6

128 GB OS SSD

5x SATA + 3x NVMe

DC: DreamServer, Bucharest

🎉 Discount 🎁 Loyalty Gift

i7 4790

Intel i7 4790

4 Cores / 8 Threads

32 GB RAM

NIC: Fujitsu D2735

2x1 Gbps Active-Active

10 TB/mo

20 IPv4 | 20 IPv6

128 GB OS SSD

4x SATA + 1x NVMe

DC: DreamServer, Bucharest

🎁 Loyalty Gift ⚡ Limited

i7 3770

Intel i7 3770

4 Cores / 8 Threads

32 GB RAM

NIC: Fujitsu D2735

2x1 Gbps Active-Active

10 TB/mo

20 IPv4 | 20 IPv6

128 GB OS SSD

4x SATA + 1x NVMe

DC: DreamServer, Bucharest

🎁 EXCLUSIVE GAMING LOYALTY PROGRAM

Rent 12 Months, Keep Your Gaming Server Forever

Gaming servers marked with the Loyalty Gift badge (our i7 3770 and i7 4790 builds) are yours to keep after 12 consecutive months of uninterrupted rental. Host your community, run your competitive stack, and when you decide to stop renting, take the hardware home. No strings attached.

✅ What the Gift Includes

✓The physical server chassis and CPU (Intel i7 3770 or i7 4790)
✓A single 128 GB OS SSD (the one the server ships with)
✓The full 32 GB RAM (the chassis maximum, shipped as standard)

❌ What Is Not Included

✗Extra storage drives (HDDs, SSDs, NVMe) beyond the OS drive
✗The Fujitsu D2735 enterprise NIC is not included; the server ships with the motherboard onboard network port only
✗Any other components added during the rental period

⚠ No Warranty After Handover: Once you pick up your gifted gaming server, DreamServer provides no warranty or technical support for the hardware. The server is provided as-is, free of charge, and we cannot be held liable for any subsequent hardware failure.

Why High-Frequency CPUs Win Game Server Battles

Counter-Strike, Minecraft, Rust, GTA SA-MP, FiveM, Garry's Mod, Valheim. Nearly every competitive game engine pins its main simulation loop to a single thread. What matters is how fast that one core runs. That is why our gaming lineup ships with CPUs chosen for raw GHz, not core count: Intel i7-3770, i7-4790, i9-10900K and AMD Ryzen 9 3900X.

Tick Rate Is Single-Thread Bound

Source engine (CS2, CS:GO, TF2, GMod), Minecraft, Unity and Unreal run the authoritative game loop on one core. 128-tick CS2, 20-tick Minecraft Java, 30-tick Rust: every tick must finish physics, AI and networking before the next starts. Higher GHz means more headroom to hit target tickrate consistently, even with 64+ players online.

Crisp Hit Registration

Every millisecond spent on input handling, hitbox traversal and lag compensation is a millisecond your players feel. A 4.9 GHz i9-10900K core processes a single tick in roughly half the time of a budget 2.4 GHz VPS. The result: fewer "I shot first" moments, less rubberbanding and a snappier feel in ranked play.

Headroom for Mods & Plugins

A vanilla Minecraft server is one thing. Add 40 plugins, WorldGuard, McMMO, a 128-player community and a live map renderer, and you choke a weak core fast. High-GHz chips give you the spare cycles heavy mod stacks demand (Forge, Fabric, Paper, FiveM, Oxide) without dropping TPS below 20.

Built for Competitive Gaming

Everything you need to run a serious game-hosting operation: 128-tick CS2 headroom, network-level DDoS mitigation, full root access, and compatibility with every popular hosting panel and mod framework.

128-Tick Ready

Our i9-10900K, Ryzen 9 3900X and i7-4790 builds handle 128-tick CS2 and CS:GO comfortably. Pair with the Intel X710-DA 10 GbE NIC for multi-match hosting where tick budget and bandwidth both matter.

RTBH DDoS Mitigation

We offer Remotely Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering on our BGP uplinks. When a destination IP gets flooded, you can announce a blackhole community to us and the attack traffic is dropped at the upstream edge before it reaches your server, keeping the rest of your infrastructure reachable.

Panel & Mod Friendly

Full root, any OS (Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Windows Server). Install Pterodactyl, AMP, WISP, LinuxGSM, or your own stack. Optional pre-install for Minecraft Paper/Forge/Fabric, CS2 metamod/sourcemod, MTA:SA, SA-MP/open.mp.

Fast Deploy, Real Support

Servers online within hours. 24/7 engineering support from real humans, not first-line triage bots. We have hosted Romanian and international gaming communities since 2009 and we know what serious hosting customers need.

Included on All Dedicated Servers

RTBH DDoS Mitigation with sFlow Telemetry

We operate Remotely Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering on our BGP uplinks, continuously monitored via sFlow telemetry on our edge routers. When traffic to a destination IP spikes above baseline, our sFlow collector detects the anomaly in real time and triggers a blackhole route over iBGP. The blackhole community is automatically announced to our upstream Transit Providers, so the attack traffic is dropped at their network edge before it ever reaches our network, while the rest of your infrastructure stays online.

Your other match servers stay online during an attack. A DDoS aimed at one IP does not take the whole game-hosting fleet down, so players on the surviving IPs keep playing without ping spikes or disconnects. You can announce a blackhole community yourself (if you operate BGP with us) or simply ask our NOC to trigger it. RTBH is effective against volumetric L3/L4 floods (UDP, SYN, amplification). Layer 7 application-layer attacks fall outside the scope of RTBH and require application-level defenses such as a WAF, rate limiting, or caching that you implement at your own application tier.

Attack traffic sFlow telemetry BGP blackhole announcement

Games We Optimize For

From competitive FPS and survival mods to persistent open-world RPGs, our hardware is tuned for the workloads gaming communities actually run. Do not see your title? Ask us. If it runs on Linux or Windows Server, we can host it.

Counter-Strike 2 & CS:GO

128-tick, metamod, sourcemod

Counter-Strike 1.6

AMX Mod X, ReHLDS, classic RO scene

Minecraft Java

Paper, Spigot, Forge, Fabric, Bukkit

Minecraft Bedrock

Nukkit, PocketMine, dedicated BDS

GTA SA-MP & open.mp

pawn scripts, MySQL backends

MTA: San Andreas

Lua scripts, custom gamemodes

FiveM (GTA V)

txAdmin, ESX, QBCore, alt:V ready

Rust

Oxide/uMod plugins, Carbon, RustEdit

ARK: Survival Evolved & ASA

Mods, clusters, Windows-ready

Valheim

Dedicated headless, Valheim Plus

Garry's Mod

DarkRP, TTT, workshop collections

Team Fortress 2

SourceMod, MvM, community servers

7 Days to Die

Alpha updates, ServerTools, mods

Unturned

RocketMod, LDM, OpenMod

Palworld

Dedicated, auto-restart, saves

Project Zomboid

Workshop mods, 64+ player runs

Satisfactory

Dedicated, blueprints, SMM

Terraria

TShock, tModLoader, Calamity

Factorio

Headless, mod portal sync

DayZ

Chernarus, Livonia, workshop mods

Squad & Post Scriptum

100-player milsim servers

Space Engineers

Torch, plugins, persistent worlds

Mordhau

Custom maps, mutators

TeamSpeak 3 / Mumble

Voice alongside your game server

Ready to level up your server?

Get your game server deployed within hours. Full root access, your choice of OS, RTBH DDoS mitigation included, and support from real engineers.

Recommended Add-on

Protect Your Game Server with Proxmox Backup Server

Whether you run Minecraft, CS2, Rust, ARK, Valheim or a custom Source/GoldSrc community, your world saves, player databases, modpacks, and server configs are irreplaceable. Pair your game server with our Proxmox Backup Server service and schedule nightly snapshots into a deduplicated, encrypted, off-host store. The lightweight backup client runs on most modern Linux distributions and can capture flat files, MariaDB/MySQL dumps, and entire disks, so a hardware failure or a botched mod update no longer means losing months of player progress.

Running multiple game instances under Proxmox VE on the same machine? PBS plugs in as a native storage target on the PVE node (Proxmox VE 8 or newer recommended), uses QEMU dirty bitmaps for fast incremental backups, and unlocks Live-restore so a stalled instance can boot while its world is still streaming back. Backups are encrypted client-side with AES-256-GCM, so the server only ever sees ciphertext.

Incremental & Deduplication

Encrypted, compressed chunks in flight Dedup match (chunk already stored) Single stored copy, N references

Incremental + Deduplication

Periodic backups produce mostly duplicate data. The client sends only changed blocks; the server splits data into fixed or variable sized chunks and collapses identical ones across all hosts and snapshots. A fleet of VMs sharing one OS image stores that OS once.

ZSTD Compression

Zstandard handles several gigabytes per second on modern CPUs while keeping a high compression ratio. Backups stay fast and storage stays small, with no perceptible CPU pressure on the source host.

End-to-end Encryption

Authenticated AES-256 in Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) runs on the client, before any byte leaves the host. An optional RSA master key pair safely stores and recovers the backup key, which you can print for offline, disaster-proof storage.

SHA-256 Integrity

Every backup ships with a manifest (index.json) listing every file, size, and SHA-256 checksum. Schedule verification jobs to catch bit rot. The same checksums drive cross-machine deduplication, so identical OS chunks are stored once across your fleet.

Granular Recovery

Why restore everything when you can restore one file? Browse the snapshot catalog, pull individual files or directories from a VM image, drop into an interactive recovery shell, or Live-restore a guest that boots while data is still streaming back.

Learn About Proxmox Backup Order Backup Storage

Schedule nightly snapshots, restore a single world file in seconds, sleep peacefully.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before ordering a dedicated game server.

Why do game servers need high-frequency CPUs instead of many cores?

Most game server engines (Source/CS2, Minecraft, Unity, Unreal, Rust, SA-MP, FiveM) run the authoritative game loop on a single thread. Target tickrate (128 ticks/sec for CS2, 20 for Minecraft Java, 30 for Rust) must complete within its time budget on one core. Higher GHz directly increases tickrate headroom and reduces per-tick latency, which players feel as crisper hit registration and less rubberbanding.

What games can I host on DreamServer game servers?

Counter-Strike 2 / CS:GO / CS 1.6, Minecraft Java (Paper, Spigot, Forge, Fabric, Bukkit), GTA SA-MP / open.mp, MTA: San Andreas, FiveM (GTA V), Rust, ARK, Valheim, Garry's Mod, Team Fortress 2, 7 Days to Die, Unturned, Palworld, Project Zomboid, Satisfactory, Terraria, Factorio, DayZ, Squad, Space Engineers, Mordhau, and more. If it runs on Linux or Windows Server, we can host it.

Do you offer DDoS mitigation for game servers?

Yes. We offer Remotely Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering on our BGP uplinks. When a destination IP gets flooded, you can announce a blackhole community to us and the attack traffic is dropped at the upstream edge before it reaches your server, keeping the rest of your infrastructure reachable.

Can I install Pterodactyl, AMP, or my own game panel?

Yes. Full root access, any OS. Install Pterodactyl, AMP, WISP, LinuxGSM, or a custom stack. We also pre-install popular stacks (Minecraft Paper/Forge/Fabric, CS2 metamod/sourcemod, MTA:SA, SA-MP/open.mp) on request at order time.

Is DSIX peering really free for game servers?

Yes, 100% free. Every game server includes a free port to DSIX Internet Exchange (AS58218), giving you direct peering with major Romanian ISPs and regional content networks. No setup fee, no monthly fee, no bandwidth cap.

Do your servers support 128-tick CS2 / CS:GO?

Yes. Our i9-10900K (4.9 GHz boost), Ryzen 9 3900X (4.6 GHz boost), and i7-4790 (4.0 GHz boost) builds handle 128-tick CS2 and CS:GO comfortably. Multiple 128-tick match servers can run concurrently on a single box with proper core pinning.

What latency can players in Romania and the Balkans expect?

Players on major Romanian ISPs typically see under 5 ms to our Bucharest datacenter thanks to DSIX peering. Players across the Balkans and Central Europe see 10-25 ms. Western Europe sees 30-50 ms. Latency is measured over our Cisco Nexus vPC fabric with cut-through switching.

What about mod support (Forge, Fabric, FiveM, Oxide)?

Full mod support. Root access lets you install any modloader or game framework: Minecraft Forge/Fabric/NeoForge/Quilt, FiveM/alt:V for GTA V, SA-MP/open.mp for GTA SA, Garry's Mod workshop content, Rust Oxide plugins. Heavy modded stacks benefit from our high-GHz CPUs.

Can I run a voice server (TeamSpeak, Mumble) alongside the game server?

Yes. Voice servers are lightweight and run fine alongside a game server on the same dedicated hardware. Common combos: CS2 + TeamSpeak 3 or Mumble; Minecraft + voice chat relay.

Do you offer Windows Server for game hosting?

Yes, Windows Server is available alongside Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux). Some games and tooling prefer Windows; you pick the OS at order time.