The Front Server-Hosting

Was ist The Front

The Front is the kind of survival game that sounds straightforward on the box. Drop into a hostile timeline, gather resources, craft tech, build a base, push back against an empire. In practice you spend most of your time arguing with friends about whether the watchtower needs another floor and watching somebody's home-made vehicle disassemble itself on the first hill. The world is shared, persistent, and a lot more interesting once you stop hosting it from your own machine. That's why most groups end up wanting a dedicated server. The official server binary works, but Samar Studio's SteamCMD distribution ships without a few pieces from the game client, and the missing files surface as NPCs that animate but never move. We've documented the fix in our [self-host walkthrough](https://low.ms/knowledgebase/how-to-host-the-front-dedicated-server), but if you'd rather not chase DLLs across two Steam installs at midnight, our LOW.MS plans for The Front have the file fix baked in, MariaDB wired up, and the four UDP ports the game wants open at provision time. You pick a region at checkout, the server spins up in minutes, and the [LOW.MS Control Panel](https://control.low.ms) does the rest. Where we put our weight is in the things that go wrong at 2am. Cloud Backup captures the install plus the MariaDB world state in a single snapshot, so a backup is actually a rollback point rather than half of one. DDoS protection sits in front of every server. Support is 24/7 because the game patches are 24/7 and we've learned the hard way that "small Asia-region patch on a Sunday" can wipe a public server's player list before anyone European wakes up. If you want the technical detail on what we run, the [hosting guide](https://low.ms/knowledgebase/how-to-host-the-front-dedicated-server) covers it; if you just want to pick a plan and play this weekend, the order form below is shorter than reading this paragraph.