Project Zomboid server hosting
Our Helsinki region is built for groups in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: a server on your own side of the Baltic instead of one routed through central Europe.
Because Project Zomboid runs the whole world on the server — zombies, vehicles, loot and Build 42’s animals and basements — the round trip to it is what you feel as late hits, delayed container actions and cars that stutter. Keeping the server in the region keeps that round trip short for the whole group, not just for whoever would otherwise be hosting from their own PC.
Every server runs Build 42 stable with a one-setting switch to the legacy Build 41 branch, installs Steam Workshop mods from your panel, takes daily backups, and can load a Build 42 save you have already started.
Everything included with the server — the dashboard, backups, mods and world upload — is on the main Project Zomboid server hosting page.
Estimates from the distance to the datacentre, not a live measurement — your own connection moves them a few milliseconds either way.
Plans
Every plan runs on the same hardware in this region, with DDoS protection, automatic backups and instant setup included.
Questions
Helsinki is usually the better fit for Finland, the Baltics and most of Sweden; southern Sweden, Denmark and Norway can be close to even between Helsinki and Frankfurt. If your group includes players further south, choose Frankfurt. We can move the server between regions if you want to try both.
Yes, in every region. The server installs Workshop mods itself from the Workshop item list and the mod list in your panel, and downloads everything on boot. One Build 42 rule applies wherever the server is hosted: a mod has to be updated for Build 42 to load, so check the Workshop page before you add it.
If it is a Build 42 save, yes. Upload it through the panel file manager or SFTP and your map, characters and loot carry on, on a server that stays up whether or not the friend who used to host is online. Build 41 saves do not convert to Build 42 — that is The Indie Stone’s limitation, not a hosting one.
Other locations
Pick a plan, pick this region, and it is online in under a minute.
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