Gmod Server Hosting :Rent your Garry's Mod server from $4.49/mo

Enter your Workshop collection ID in NexusPanel: the addons download and load automatically on startup, and clients pull the content through the Steam Workshop.

Yes. DarkRP, like TTT, Prop Hunt, Murder or Sandbox, installs easily; add your jobs and Lua scripts via WebFTP and use the included MySQL database to save DarkRP data.

FastDL is a web file server that clients pull content from over HTTP instead of through the slow in-game transfer. You point your server at it with sv_downloadurl in server.cfg and mirror your models, materials, sounds and maps there, ideally compressed with bzip2 so each file downloads faster. It is supported and configurable, and on a content-heavy server it turns a multi-minute first join into a few seconds. Keep the FastDL copy in sync every time you add or update an addon, otherwise clients fall back to missing content.

A red ERROR means the client is missing a model or material the server is using : it is a client-side content problem, not a server crash. Put every addon your gamemode needs into one public Steam Workshop collection, set that collection ID on the server so it is offered on connection, and tell your players to subscribe to it. Anything not on the Workshop (legacy addons, custom models) has to be served through FastDL so clients download it too. Finally, purge outdated or duplicate addons: two versions of the same pack, or an addon abandoned after a Gmod update, produce ERRORs no download can fix.

DarkRP works out of the box on its default flat-file storage, but any serious server moves to MySQL: money, jobs, inventories, doors and playtime survive map changes and crashes, and you can share the same data across several servers or read it from a web panel. Most DarkRP addons that handle economy or inventories expect MySQL through mysqloo. A MySQL database is included with your Gmod server, so you only need to fill in the credentials in your addon configuration.

For a small private DarkRP with friends, 10 to 20 slots is plenty. An active community server usually settles around 32 to 64 slots, and only established servers with a full addon stack need 100 or 128. Bear in mind that DarkRP load comes as much from your addons and props as from your player count, so a 32-slot server crammed with entity mods can work the CPU harder than a lean 64-slot one. Our plans have no commitment, so start where you are and move up when your peak actually fills.

Yes. ULX and ULib install for admin commands, groups and permissions across your gamemode.

From a handful of players to busy 128-slot DarkRP servers; the Ryzen 9 7950X3D handles servers heavily loaded with addons.

Garry's Mod is a paid game.

Nexus Games is rated one of the best Gmod hosts thanks to AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors, DDR5 ECC memory and Gen4 NVMe storage, with Anti-DDoS included, FastDL, MySQL and support 7 days a week.

At Nexus Games a Gmod server starts at $4.49/month. Pricing scales with the slots you choose, from 10 players up to 128, up to $51.99/month for the largest configuration : you only pay for the slots you need, with CPU, RAM and bandwidth included and Anti-DDoS standard.

Garry's Mod is single-thread bound and addon-heavy, so the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with its 5.7 GHz clock and 128 MB 3D V-Cache (used on every Nexus Games Gmod server) holds up the busiest DarkRP servers.

Your Garry's Mod server is hosted in US East, on our Ryzen 9 7950X3D infrastructure with a 1 Gbit/s network and permanent Anti-DDoS protection. That proximity keeps latency low and stable for your players.

Yes, and it is straightforward: download the files from your current server (world, configs, mods) and upload them through NexusPanel's WebFTP. You keep your progress, your settings and your add-ons — nothing to reconfigure, nothing to reinstall.

With the Backup add-on, you create your backups yourself from NexusPanel, with the server stopped, and restore them in one click. Good habit: make one before an update or a mod installation.