Team Fortress 2 Server Hosting

What is Team Fortress 2?

Team Fortress 2 is Valve's class-based multiplayer shooter and one of the longest-living FPS games ever made. Every match is built around nine playable classes: Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy, each with its own weapons, movement and role. The magic is in how those classes interact: a good team combines them, and a chaotic one goes nine Snipers and has fun anyway.

On your own server you decide what TF2 looks like: Payload, Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Control Points, Arena, Mann vs. Machine and more, across well over a hundred official maps plus an endless supply of community-made ones. Trade servers, surf maps, jailbreak, x10 madness: the community server scene is where TF2 has always lived, and your server becomes part of it the moment it appears in the in-game server browser.

Which Team Fortress 2 plan do you need?

Team Fortress 2 is light on hardware; the number of slots and the plugin stack set the size:

Your server, your rules

Your TF2 server is a normal SRCDS install with full file access, deployed instantly after checkout.

Every server sits behind VibeSHIELD DDoS protection with a dedicated Team Fortress 2 filter, so your community stays online even when someone tries to take it down.

Team Fortress 2 server locations worldwide

Low ping is half the fun. Our Team Fortress 2 servers run in 15 datacenters across Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Oceania and Africa, every one on the same AMD Ryzen hardware with NVMe storage and behind VibeSHIELD, our own DDoS protection network with 17 Tb/s of mitigation capacity. You pick the location at checkout, and the latency checker below shows your real ping to each one before you order.

Outgrown your first choice? Our team moves your server to another location on request, with your files intact, so the location you start in is never a lock-in.

Your first steps after ordering

The server is delivered installed and running a stock map rotation. Getting your community in takes a few steps:

1. 1Set the hostname, rcon password and tags in server.cfg
2. 2Install MetaMod and SourceMod if you want plugins
3. 3Upload your custom maps and set the mapcycle
4. 4Add the plugins for your game mode
5. 5Restart from the panel and find your server in the browser

Switching from another Team Fortress 2 host?

A TF2 server is its cfg folder, its addons folder with SourceMod and your maps folder. Upload them over SFTP, restart, and the server behaves exactly as before, in a new datacenter. Players keep their items and stats; those live with Steam, not the server.

1. 1Download your cfg folder, the addons folder and your maps from the old host
2. 2Upload them over SFTP
3. 3Restart and update your community's bookmarks

Open a ticket if you want a hand; our team moves Source servers regularly.

Game control panel guides

Step by step walkthroughs for setting up and running your server, written by the team that hosts it.

• How to Log In to the Game PanelEvery game server is managed in the VibeGAMES game panel at game.vibegames.com.
• How to Start Your Game ServerStarting your game server takes one click. Here is where to find it and what the other power buttons do.
• How to Manage Your Files Using the File ManagerThe file manager is built into the game panel and covers almost everything you need day to day: browsing, uploading, editing, archiving and deleting files.
• How to manage your files via FTP using FilezillaSFTP is the fastest way to make big changes to your server, such as uploading complete resources or downloading everything at once.

Team Fortress 2 server hosting FAQ