ARK Survival Ascended Server Hosting

ARK: Survival Ascended server hosting is a dedicated server service that lets your tribe run an always-on ASA world without using your own PC or console as the host. A hosted ASA server handles dino AI, base and structure simulation, breeding timers, and autosaves on powerful hardware, while your tribe connects from anywhere. That matters more for ASA than for most survival games: it is a Windows-only Unreal Engine 5 binary with a heavy server tick, so a vanilla map with one player already works a CPU hard. Supercraft runs ARK: Survival Ascended on AMD EPYC nodes (24c/48t+, 512 GB RAM) with NVMe storage, uncapped RAM and disk, five global regions, and DDoS protection included. You can start in minutes, import an existing save, and manage every setting from the panel - or take the INI files over entirely.

This page is for ARK: Survival Ascended (ASA) - the Unreal Engine 5 remaster. Looking for the original 2017 game? Get an ARK: Survival Evolved server instead →

Every ASA map, one plan

The Island, Scorched Earth, Ragnarok, Valguero, Aberration, Extinction, Astraeos, and Lost Colony all run on the same plan - switch maps from the panel whenever your tribe wants a new run, and keep the same billing cycle. The ASA DLC roadmap covers what is already live and what lands next: Genesis Parts 1 and 2, Fjordur (December 2026), and Atlantis plus Galaxy Wars in 2027.

Optimized ASA performance & backups

ARK: Survival Ascended is a heavy Unreal Engine 5 title - it needs real CPU headroom, not a burstable slice. We run ASA on AMD EPYC hardware (~3.6 GHz, 512 GB RAM per node) with NVMe storage so big raids, breeding barns, and dino-dense bases stay responsive. Automatic snapshots help you roll back fast after griefing or a bad mod install, and cross-region transfers let you move closer to your tribe without wiping progress. The UE 5.7 upgrade brought roughly a third more headroom - your server picks it up automatically.

Mod-friendly ASA hosting

Mods are a Plan M and Plan L feature - Plan S runs vanilla. ASA mods come from CurseForge: paste the mod IDs into the panel as active or passive mods and the server fetches them itself on boot, with no SteamCMD step and no manual uploads. Sponsored map mods such as Astraeos are wired up for you when you select the map. Structure overhauls, dino overhauls and QoL packs all work; see the mod installation guide for the workflow, and modded server performance for which mod types actually cost you CPU. The usual way an ASA season dies is a game patch landing while a mod hasn’t updated yet - we snapshot before updates so that is a rollback, not a wipe. Enable RCON for admin commands, and use the panel’s save tools to list, switch or repair world saves.

Full control of your server settings

Every commonly-tuned value is a form field in the panel: taming, harvest and XP multipliers, breeding and imprint timers, level caps, PvP and offline-raid protection, structure decay, cryopods and tribe rules. When you outgrow the form, ARK is one of the games where you can take file-level ownership of GameUserSettings.ini and Game.ini and edit them directly over FTP - we preserve your hand-edits and only enforce the few keys the platform needs to run the server. See the ASA server settings guide and the multipliers cheat sheet.

Running more than one map

ASA clusters let a tribe carry dinos, items and characters between maps through obelisks and terminals. This works on Supercraft, on any plan - but it is worth being clear about what it needs: a cluster is one server per map, so a three-map cluster means three servers sharing a cluster ID and a cluster directory. It is not a single-subscription feature. If that is what you want, the cluster setup guide covers the transfer rules, and it is worth talking to us first so we place the servers correctly.

Live ops tools built in

Tune taming, harvesting, and XP multipliers from a form instead of hand-editing GameUserSettings.ini. Watch a live player list in the panel to see who’s online, and wire up a Discord webhook so starts, stops, crashes, and join/leave events post to your tribe’s channel automatically.

Available regions: US West (Oregon), US East (Virginia), US North-East (Toronto), Europe West (Paris), Australia (Sydney).

How much does an ARK: Survival Ascended server cost in 2026?

ASA hosting costs depend on how many players you want to support, how busy the map is (dino counts, base density, breeding barns), whether you run a cluster, and how often you need backups and restores. Supercraft plans start from $29⁰⁰ per month, with discounts on longer billing cycles shown in the plan selector above. Most small tribes can start on Plan S or Plan M, then scale up later without wiping: increase slots in the panel, restart, and keep the same world. Reliable hosting value is driven by RAM for structure-heavy maps, CPU priority for a stable tick rate during raids, and fast NVMe storage for autosaves and snapshot restores. Our ASA pricing guide breaks down what each tier in the market actually buys you.

Running a large cluster or want a fully managed box of your own? See our ARK: Survival Ascended dedicated server hosting.

Pick your ASA map

Every map runs on the same plan. Pick the one your tribe wants - we host all of them, and you can switch whenever you like.

Setting up your ASA server: first-day checklist

Setting up an ARK: Survival Ascended server is mostly about making good choices before players join. Map, multipliers, restart policy, and backup discipline all matter more than shaving a minute off the initial install.

Decisions to make before launch

• Who is this for? A private tribe server can prioritize convenience. A public or long-running PvP season needs more conservative settings and better backups.
• Which map, and will you cluster? Decide up front - adding maps to a cluster later is easy, but retro-fitting transfer rules onto an established season is not.
• How often will it restart? ASA benefits from a clear restart schedule, especially once a map has been active for long sessions with high dino counts.

First-day setup checklist

1. Create the world, pick the map, set the server name and password policy, and confirm your taming, harvest, and XP multipliers.
2. Set the admin password before anyone joins, so console commands stay yours.
3. Join the server yourself and verify character creation, respawn, and structure placement work normally.
4. Enable backups before you start experimenting with heavy mod loads or big multiplier changes.
5. Publish simple tribe rules for raids, building spots, and restart times.

Three early mistakes to avoid

• Launching with default multipliers you have not actually reviewed - taming rates in particular define the pace of the whole season.
• Inviting your tribe before you test reconnects, restart behavior, and save creation.
• Stacking a dozen mods on day one, then having no idea which one broke the server after a patch.

One platform note worth deciding before launch: since the January 2024 anti-cheat change, PC and console crossplay is disabled on official servers. Unofficial servers can run -ServerPlatform=All - see the ASA crossplay guide for what that means for who can connect and which troubleshooting tree you end up using later.

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