Invites are open.
Invite-only UK game servers

Real hardware.
Invite only.

Dedicated game servers on symmetric UK fibre, run out of a homelab for a group of people who were invited into it. Members pay nothing and never have. There is no signup on this site, and no waiting list to join.

Closed to new accounts · Existing members keep their servers · DDoS filtered upstream

What this is
At a glance

What Is Actually Running

14
Games supported
24/7
Online while people play on it
900/900
Mbps symmetric UK fibre

"24/7" means the only reason we ever stop your server is a lack of activity on it. The seven-day inactivity rule is the one clock running — no renewal link, no advert to watch. It is not a guaranteed uptime figure: this is a homelab, so outages happen and the host gets rebooted for patching.

Why it changed

Open Signup Is Gone

This originally ran as an open signup — anyone could join the Discord and spin up a free server. Three things ended that, and none of them were caused by the people it was meant for.

What open signup brought with it

  • DDoS attacks aimed at the residential line this runs on — taking out a household's internet, not just a game server
  • Accounts created purely to host malware, using a free server as somewhere disposable to run it from
  • A "no support" rule that was stated plainly and then ignored, turning a hobby into an unpaid helpdesk
  • A ban being nothing more than an inconvenience, because the next account was thirty seconds away

What invite only fixes

  • Everyone with a server got here through someone who already had one
  • Every account has a member's name permanently attached to it — the person whose invite let them in
  • A small group that reads the rules is a group worth keeping the lights on for
  • Nothing changed for the members already here — same hardware, same allocation, same cost of nothing

One of those three has since been dealt with: the line sits behind a DDoS filtering provider now, so an attack no longer takes a household's broadband down with the game server. It did not reopen the door. Malware accounts and a support rule treated as a support queue were the other two reasons, and neither of them is a network problem.

Everything included

Upload & Download Saves

Already have a world? Upload your existing save through the panel and pick up where you left off — and pull a backup out whenever you want.

Invite Friends to Help

Add sub-users from the panel so your friends can use the console, restart the server and manage files — without ever touching your account.

One-Click Deploy

Select your game and region, click create, and your server is installed and running within minutes.

Discord-Tied Accounts

A panel account is tied to a Discord account in AlienX's Place, and the role that unlocks it is now handed out rather than picked. Leave the Discord and the server goes with you.

What it runs on

Real Hardware. Somebody's Spare Room.

Not a cheap VPS sliced into oblivion, and not a datacentre either — enterprise kit in a rack at home, on a domestic fibre line behind a scrubbing provider.

900/900 Mbps Fibre

Symmetric UK fibre — the same speed up as down, which is what actually matters for a game server. No throttling on your server's connection.

Real Hardware

Enterprise kit in a homelab rack, not a shared VPS sliced into oblivion.

  • Proxmox cluster
  • NVMe storage
  • 256 GB RAM per node
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 CPU

Pterodactyl Panel

Industry-standard game panel with a clean UI, file manager, console access, and resource graphs — all in the browser.

Mods & Plugins

Full filesystem access over the panel and SFTP. Install modpacks, plugins, datapacks and custom maps yourself — no curated list to wait on.

From the panel

Live Stock Levels

Slots are capped by the hardware, so every game has a fixed number of them. This is read from the panel every hour and is here so members can see what is left before they plan something. A free slot is not an opening — creating a server still needs an account, and accounts are invite only.

14/14 Games in stock
266 Slots free
2m ago Updated

Read from the panel hourly and refreshed on this page as you read it. Creating a server still needs a Discord account with the Server Hosting role.

Game servers

What We Host

Everything the panel can deploy, with what each one is given. Members get one server at a time and can switch games by deleting the current one and creating another.

Palworld

Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!

10 GB RAM 4 vCPU Unlimited disk

Minecraft

High performance Spigot fork that aims to fix gameplay and mechanics inconsistencies.

Paper (vanilla) NeoForge Fabric Unlimited disk

Windrose

Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets.

10 GB RAM 3 vCPU Unlimited disk

Factorio

The vanilla Factorio server.

5 GB RAM 2.5 vCPU Unlimited disk

StarRupture

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your…

8 GB RAM 3 vCPU Unlimited disk

Hytale

Set out on an adventure built for both creation and play. Hytale blends the freedom of a sandbox with the momentum of an RPG: explore a procedurally generated world full of dungeons, secrets, and a variety of creatures…

10 GB RAM 2 vCPU Unlimited disk

BeamMP

This is the server for the multiplayer mod BeamMP for the game BeamNG.drive. The server is the point through which all clients communicate. You can write lua mods for the server, detailed instructions on the BeamMP Wiki.

4 GB RAM 1 vCPU Unlimited disk

Ark: Survival Evolved

As a man or woman stranded, naked, freezing, and starving on the unforgiving shores of a mysterious island called ARK, use your skill and cunning to kill or tame and ride the plethora of leviathan dinosaurs and other…

8 GB RAM 4 vCPU Unlimited disk

Satisfactory

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

10 GB RAM 3 vCPU Unlimited disk

Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid is an open world survival horror video game in alpha stage development by British and Canadian independent developer, The Indie Stone.

10 GB RAM 1.5 vCPU Unlimited disk

Terraria

Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game.

Vanilla tModLoader Unlimited disk

Empyrion: Galactic Survival

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

10 GB RAM 5 vCPU Unlimited disk

Garrys Mod

Garrys Mod, is a sandbox physics game created by Garry Newman, and developed by his company, Facepunch Studios.

2 GB RAM 2 vCPU Unlimited disk

Vanilla Bedrock

Bedrock Edition (also known as the Bedrock Version, Bedrock Codebase, Bedrock Engine or just Bedrock) refers to the multi-platform family of editions of Minecraft developed by Mojang AB, Microsoft Studios, 4J Studios…

8 GB RAM 1.5 vCPU Unlimited disk

More Added Over Time

New eggs go on the panel when there is hardware for them and somebody here wants to play the game. Members pick what gets added next, in the Discord.

Infrastructure

Server Locations

🇬🇧

United Kingdom

Homelab server on residential fibre. 900/900 Mbps symmetric connection with Ceph NVMe/SSD storage for fast file operations. Solar powered — your server runs on sunshine. Inbound traffic arrives over a tunnel from a DDoS filtering provider rather than straight at the line.

Live DDoS filtered Solar powered
Network

The Line Is Filtered Now

Game and panel traffic no longer arrives at the house directly. It comes in over a tunnel from a scrubbing provider, so an attack aimed at a server hits their network instead of a residential connection.

Scrubbed Upstream

Traffic for the servers is routed through a DDoS filtering provider over a GRE tunnel. Attack traffic is dropped on their network, at their capacity, and never reaches the fibre line at all.

The Household Stays Online

This is the part that mattered. An attack on a game server used to take out the broadband of the people living behind it. Filtered upstream, it does not — the line stays up whether or not somebody is throwing traffic at us.

What It Does Not Change

Filtering answers one of the three reasons open signup ended. It does nothing about accounts made to host malware, and nothing about a "no support" rule being treated as a support queue. Those are why it is still invite only.

A Tunnel Is Still a Hop

Routing through a scrubbing network adds a small amount of latency compared with traffic arriving straight at the door. That is the trade, it is stated rather than hidden, and it is a better deal than a household going dark.

Filtering is not a guarantee. A big enough or clever enough attack can still cause trouble, and this is still a homelab rather than a datacentre — what changed is that the failure mode is a slow server rather than a family with no internet.

Fair use

Limits, Support & Community

The ground rules for the people who host here. The big one: you need to be in our Discord, and your server goes when you leave it.

Can I sign up?

Not on your own. The panel does not take public registrations any more — creating an account needs an invite code from somebody already hosting here, and there is no form, queue or waiting list behind that. If you have been given a code, this is what to do with it. If you have not, there is nothing on this page to apply to, and asking around for one is the surest way to make sure you never get one.

Why did it go invite only?

Three reasons, all of them from the open-signup era. The line this runs on was hit with DDoS attacks, which takes out a household's broadband rather than just a game server. Accounts were being created to host malware and use a free server as somewhere disposable to run it from. And the "no support" rule — stated plainly everywhere — was ignored often enough that a hobby turned into an unpaid helpdesk. An open door made all three cheap to keep doing.

You have DDoS protection now. Does that reopen signup?

No. Traffic comes in over a tunnel from a DDoS filtering provider, so an attack is dropped on their network instead of taking out a residential line — that genuinely fixed the worst of the three problems. It did nothing about the other two. Filtering does not stop somebody creating an account to host malware on, and it does not turn a "no support" rule into something people respect. Those are why it is still invite only.

Does the DDoS filtering add lag?

A little, and it is worth being straight about it. Traffic reaches the servers through a scrubbing network rather than arriving at the door, and that extra hop costs a few milliseconds. In exchange, an attack on one game server no longer takes the whole house offline. For the kind of games run here that is a trade worth making every time.

Someone sent me an invite link. What do I do with it?

Open it. It takes you to the panel login page, which will tell you whose invite has been applied, and you sign in with Discord from there. If you were sent a bare code rather than a link, go to the panel login page yourself and paste the code into the field on it. If you are not in our Discord yet, the panel will wait while you join and then finish the job on its own — see how access works for the whole run through.

My invite is not working.

Almost always it is Discord being slow rather than anything being wrong. The panel keeps trying and tells you outright that the invite has not been used yet, so nothing is spent and the code is still good — leave it a few minutes and open the link again. If the "Join the Discord" button does not open, your browser has blocked the popup; the Discord link in our footer goes to the same server. A code that has genuinely already been used by somebody else cannot be reused, and you will need a fresh one.

How many invites do I get, and do they come back?

Every account gets the same small number, shown on a banner on your panel dashboard. Giving one out spends it. Cancelling one that nobody has used gives the slot back, but once a code has been used it is permanent — it cannot be cancelled, reused or moved to someone else, because that record is what says who vouched for whom. Invites do not replenish over time, and there is no way to earn or buy more.

I already have an account. Do I need a code?

No. Invites only apply to new sign-ups. If you already host here, nothing has changed for you — you are never asked for a code, and your server carries on as it was.

What does it mean that I vouched for someone?

It means the record permanently shows that your invite is how they got in. We can follow that chain, and we take it into account when we look at what an account has been doing. It is the thing an anonymous signup could never give us, and it is why invite only works at all — so spend yours on people you actually know rather than on strangers who asked.

I used to host here. Can I come back?

Possibly. Former members are looked at case by case, and being here before counts for something. What it is not is a right, and it is not a conversation to open by asking repeatedly. Begging for a re-invite is an immediate and permanent no — that is not a negotiating position, it is just how it works.

Is it still free?

Yes, for the people who host here. Nobody has ever paid for a server and nobody pays for one now. Going invite only was about who gets an account, not about charging for it — there is nothing to buy, no tier to upgrade to and no card details anywhere.

What happened to the Patreon?

Gone. The supporter tiers no longer exist, nothing on the panel is behind a payment, and there is no way to contribute money towards this. If you held a pledge, it has ended and nothing you had is being withheld.

Do I need to be in your Discord?

Yes. Hosting here means being in AlienX's Place, and the role the panel checks is not something you can pick for yourself — it is granted when a valid invite is used and you are in the Discord, which the panel handles for you during sign-up. Stay in the server for as long as you want the game server: if you leave the Discord, your server is deleted.

How long does my server stay online?

For as long as people are playing on it. Your server runs around the clock, and the seven-day inactivity rule is the only clock running against it. If nobody plays on it for seven days we remove it to free up capacity, but it stays online for the whole of that week.

Is the 24/7 uptime guaranteed?

No, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. 24/7 means the only reason we ever stop your server is a lack of activity on it. It is not a guaranteed uptime figure: this is a homelab, so outages happen and the host gets rebooted for patching and upgrades. Nothing else on our side deliberately stops a server.

Can I have more than one server?

Each account gets one server at a time. To switch games, delete your current server and create a new one. If you are running a community or hosting an event, ask on Discord — exceptions can be made case by case.

Can I install mods and upload my own saves?

Yes to both. You get full file access through the panel and over SFTP, so you can install mods, plugins and configs yourself, upload an existing world, and download a backup whenever you want.

Can my friends help manage the server?

Yes. You can add friends as sub-users from the panel, which lets them use the console, restart the server and manage files without ever having access to your account. A sub-user is not an account of their own and does not come with a server.

Do I get technical support?

No. Servers are provided as-is with no technical support — you are responsible for configuring, managing and troubleshooting your own server. Other members are often happy to help in the Discord, but that is them being generous, not a support channel, and treating it as one is part of how we ended up here.

Does forever really mean forever?

Not quite. This is a hobby project with no plans to shut down, but there are no guarantees it will run forever. Just something to keep in mind.

Getting an account

How Access Works Now

There is no registration form to fill in. An account starts with an invite handed to you by somebody already hosting here, and this is what happens once you have one.

01

Somebody Here Invites You

A member spends one of their invites on you and sends you a link, or a short code that looks like 7K2Q-9FBM. Invites are offered, never requested — if nobody has given you one, there is nothing on this page to apply for.

02

Open It and Sign In

The link lands you on the panel login page, which shows you whose invite it is before you do anything else. Sent a bare code instead? Paste it into the field on that page. Then sign in with Discord.

03

Join the Discord

Not in AlienX's Place yet? The panel holds the page open and waits for you. Join, and it gives you the Server Hosting role and carries on by itself — no refreshing, no starting over.

04

Set a Password

Pick a password and the account is yours. After that it is the same panel everyone else here uses: one server at a time, choose your game, running in minutes.

If Discord is slow or down while the panel is waiting on step 3, it keeps trying and says plainly that your invite has not been used. Nothing is lost, the code is still good, and you can close the tab and open the link again later. If the "Join the Discord" button gets blocked by your browser, the invite link in our footer goes to the same place.

If you hosted here before

  • Former members are considered case by case, and having been here counts in your favour
  • How you left matters — someone who played by the rules is in a very different position to someone who did not
  • Ask once, plainly, and take the answer either way

What will not work

  • Begging. It is a hard no, it is permanent, and it removes a "maybe" that might otherwise have existed
  • Asking again in DMs after being told no, or asking a different person hoping for a better answer
  • Offering to pay. There is nothing to buy, and money was never what was in short supply
How invites work

Every Account Comes With a Few

Invites are the only way in, so they are handed to members rather than kept by us. This is what a member sees, and what an invite means once it has been used.

A Few Per Account

A banner on your panel dashboard tells you how many you have left. Click it for the list and a Create button — each new invite is a short code plus a link you can send someone.

Spent Is Spent

Handing one out uses a slot. Cancel one nobody has used and the slot comes straight back. They do not top up over time, so there is no waiting for next month's batch — when yours are gone, they are gone.

A Used Code Is Permanent

Once somebody has signed up with a code it cannot be cancelled or handed to anyone else. That record is the entire point of the system — it is what says who vouched for whom.

An Invite Is a Vouch

Your name sits next to theirs on the record as the person who let them in. We can follow that chain, and it is taken into account. Spend yours on people you actually know.

One thing worth knowing if you are being invited: a brand-new Discord account normally has to age a little before it can create a server here. An invite lifts that wait, because somebody real has already vouched for you.

Nothing about this changes for people who already have an account. You are never asked for a code, and existing servers carry on exactly as they were — the invite system only decides who gets a new account.

Already Have an Account?

The panel is where your server lives, and the Discord is where everything else happens. If you do not have an account, neither of these will give you one — the invite has to come first.