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Barotrauma Server Hosting

  • Online in < 90 seconds
  • Crew of up to 16 players
  • Fairness guarantee: Pay-Per-Use
4.7/5 stars on Trustpilot

Online in 90 seconds

From click to running server — no waiting.

Simple & flexible

Easy setup, flexible terms, full control.

Safe & protected

DDoS protection, backups and modern hosting.

Billed by the second

Pay-per-use – only pay while your server runs.

Our most popular plans

Choose your plan

Save up to 20%with a longer term

Which plan fits your group?

Group size and how far you build set the memory, daily runtime sets the billing model.

How big will your world get?

4players

116

4hours

a normal evening

At this runtime Pay-per-Use costs you less. From around 8.1 hours a day it flips.

All plans at 120 hours a month
  • 2 GB · Assistant

    up to 4 players

    Pay-per-Use

    1.92 €

    Fixed plan

    4.00 €

  • 4 GB · Mechanic

    up to 8 players

    Pay-per-Use

    3.84 €

    Fixed plan

    8.00 €

  • 6 GB · Engineer

    up to 12 players

    Pay-per-Use

    5.69 €

    Fixed plan

    11.39 €

  • 8 GB · Medic

    up to 16 players

    Pay-per-Use

    7.60 €

    Fixed plan

    15.20 €

  • 10 GB · Security

    Extensive campaigns

    Pay-per-Use

    9.19 €

    Fixed plan

    18.00 €

  • 12 GB · Captain

    Maximum headroom

    Pay-per-Use

    11.03 €

    Fixed plan

    21.60 €

Player counts assume 6 vCores; very large worlds need more. Fixed plans up to 20 % cheaper on longer terms.

Slots
2GBRAM
4.00 €/ mo
Recommended for 4 players
  • Small crew, vanilla
  • Premium server hardware
  • Premium DDoS protection
  • Game switching to 7 more games included
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4GBRAM
8.00 €/ mo
Recommended for 8 players
  • Full crew up to 16
  • Premium server hardware
  • Premium DDoS protection
  • Game switching to 25 more games included
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6GBRAM
11.39 €/ mo
Recommended for 12 players
  • Campaign with mods
  • Premium server hardware
  • Premium DDoS protection
  • Game switching to 31 more games included
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8GBRAM
15.20 €/ mo
Recommended for 16 players
  • Large mod lists
  • Premium server hardware
  • Premium DDoS protection
  • Game switching to 46 more games included
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10GBRAM
18.00 €/ mo
Recommended for 16 players
  • Extensive campaigns
  • Premium server hardware
  • Premium DDoS protection
  • Game switching to 53 more games included
Slots
12GBRAM
21.60 €/ mo
Recommended for 16 players
  • Maximum headroom
  • Premium server hardware
  • Premium DDoS protection
  • Game switching to 57 more games included

No slot limits – player counts are recommendations, tested on our hardware.

4.7/5 on Trustpilot · "CoC Modded" runs 50+ players stable on modern AMD Ryzen hardware

Fixed plans are 100% prepaid – paid once in advance from your balance. No subscription contract, no debt collection: without balance nothing renews.

What is a Barotrauma server?

A Barotrauma server is a dedicated multiplayer server for the submarine survival game by FakeFish and Undertow Games. Up to 16 players take on fixed roles – captain, engineer, mechanic, medic, security officer or assistant – and keep a submarine running through the oceans of Europa together. On a permanently running server the campaign progress persists instead of hanging on a host PC. At RespawnHost you rent one via Pay-per-Use from 0.0160 €/h or as a fixed package from 4.00 €/month – online in under 90 seconds.

Up to 16 players Campaign is preserved Steam Workshop mods Online in 90 seconds

Everything your crew needs

These features are included in every package and make your Barotrauma server the permanent home of your campaign.

Instant Setup

Your server is ready in under 90 seconds. No waiting, start playing right away.

Crew of up to 16 players

Barotrauma allows a maximum of 16 players at once – enough for a fully manned bridge.

Custom Control Panel

Real-time console, file manager, backup management and auto-restarts in one interface.

Per-Second Billing

Only pay when your server is online. The corresponding amount is deducted per second.

DDoS Protection

Our permanent DDoS protection keeps attacks away – at no extra cost.

Quality Gaming Support

Our support team consists of real gamers – Discord response within minutes.

Gaming Infrastructure

Premium hardware for your Barotrauma server

Kostenrechner

Calculate your real costs for Barotrauma

Play time per day3h
1h24h

Your typical day

0:0024:00
Fixed plan

4.00 €

runs around the clock

RespawnHost

~1.44 €

3h/day billed

Your savings

versus the fixed plan, at 90 h/month

64 %

~2.56 €

The fixed plan only pays off from around 8.3 hours a day. Below that, Pay-per-Use is cheaper.

Based on the 2 GB package. Actual costs may vary depending on usage.

Hardware & Infrastruktur

Optimized for Barotrauma

Processor

AMD Ryzen

RAM

DDR5

Storage

NVMe SSD

DDoS protection

Premium Gaming DDoS Protection

Uplink

10 Gbit/s

Uptime

100.00 %

All systems operational

Live status on Instatus

Transparent Price Calculation

Our pricing models are completely transparent and fair. You only pay for what you really use.

You only pay when the server is online

No costs when your server is turned off. Pay only for actual usage.

Per-Second Billing

Balance is deducted live as soon as the server is online. Server off = no more cost consumption.

No hidden costs

When your server is turned off, no costs are incurred. No setup fees, no hidden costs.

Barotrauma price example

Assistant (2 GB RAM) as fixed package11.52 € / Month
Pay-per-Use hourly rate (2 GB RAM)≈ 0.0160 € / Hour

(0.0160 € × 720 Hours = 11.52 €)

Live billing

Credit is only deducted while the server is running. Stop it to save.

Example: 2 GB Package
2 hours online≈ 0.03 €
Server turned off0.00 €
Total costOnly what you play!

The difference to traditional hosters

Compare our features with those of traditional hosters and see for yourself why RespawnHost.com is the better choice.

Feature
RespawnHost.com
Provider AProvider BProvider CProvider D
Pay only when server online
Server ready in under 90 seconds
Unlimited Slots
Unlimited NVMe SSD
Unlimited Cores
Custom Control Panel
Full SFTP Access
Free Databases
Premium Hardware *2
*2 Premium Hardware means for us Gaming Processors e.g. modern AMD Ryzen™ CPUs
*3 Sample of four major providers, surveyed in July 2026 from their public pricing and feature pages. Providers are not named because plans can change at any time — the survey date is what counts.

Frequently asked questions about Barotrauma servers

Barotrauma Server Hosting: a campaign that carries on

Barotrauma is one of the few games where a single mistake kills the entire crew – a miswired cable, an overlooked leak, a reactor nobody was watching. That's exactly what makes it an ideal group game, and at the same time sets a condition: your campaign progress has to be reliably preserved. A rented Barotrauma server ensures your submarine, along with its equipment, money and reputation, sits where everyone can reach it at any time.

Why rent a Barotrauma server at RespawnHost?

In campaign mode your submarine grows across many sessions: you buy equipment, refit, gather reputation with the factions. When a fellow player hosts, all that progress hangs on their machine – and their availability. On a dedicated server the campaign lives centrally, is backed up automatically and is reachable for everyone as soon as enough people gather.

Technically Barotrauma is comparatively modest, but it demands clean latency: when water breaks in and three people operate doors at once, every delay shows. We use modern AMD Ryzen CPUs and NVMe SSDs – in Frankfurt am Main for Europe and Salt Lake City for North America.

Support that thinks along

Our support team plays the games themselves: whether a Workshop mod breaks after an update, a campaign save needs migrating or traitor settings don't apply – reach us via ticket and Discord, usually on weekends too.

Features for submarine crews

  • Official dedicated server: we run the developers' server build
  • Up to 16 players: enough for a fully manned bridge plus reserve crew
  • Steam Workshop mods: custom submarines, items and total conversions via the mod list
  • Campaign persistence: money, equipment and faction reputation are preserved
  • Automatic backups: campaign protection with 1-click restore
  • DDoS protection: permanently active, at no extra cost

Our web interface replaces editing serversettings.xml: game mode, round time, traitor probability, role distribution and mod list are changed in the panel – and the real-time console shows you immediately whether the server loads cleanly.

Fairness redefined: the Pay-Per-Use principle

Barotrauma rounds are appointments: you meet up, play a few missions, call it a night. With our Pay-Per-Use model you only pay while your server is actually running – the hourly rate for 2 GB is around 0.0160 €, so a four-hour campaign evening costs about 0.06 €.

Full cost control thanks to prepaid credit: top up, start immediately. No hidden subscriptions, no notice periods. For public servers meant to be reachable continuously, the fixed package starts at 4.00 €/month with up to 20 % term discount.

Locations: Frankfurt am Main & Salt Lake City

Instead of spreading ourselves thin from London to Singapore, we focus on the regions our community actually lives in: Frankfurt for Europe, Salt Lake City for North America – important when seconds decide the crew's fate.

Self-hosting or renting a Barotrauma server?

There are three ways to dive together:

Hosting through the game: One player starts the server from within Barotrauma. Free and quick, but their machine carries game and server at the same time – and the round ends when they go offline.

Dedicated server on your own hardware: The developers provide a standalone server build. You need a machine running around the clock, a port forward, and you have to keep updates and mod compatibility in check yourself.

Rented server at RespawnHost: The server comes preconfigured, updates and backups run automatically, port forwarding is unnecessary – and with Pay-per-Use you only pay for the evenings you actually dive.

Setting up a Barotrauma server: modes, traitors & mods

You manage the important settings of your server entirely through our panel:

As a RAM guideline: a small vanilla crew runs fine on Assistant (2 GB). For a fully manned campaign with 16 players we recommend 4-6 GB (Mechanic/Engineer). Anyone playing with large mod lists or total conversions should plan for 8-12 GB – mods are the biggest factor for memory use in Barotrauma.

  • Game mode: campaign with persistent progress, mission, sandbox or PvP
  • Player count: up to 16 – smaller values for private rounds possible at any time
  • Traitor settings: probability and number of traitors per round
  • Role distribution: which jobs are available and how many slots each role gets
  • Steam Workshop mods: add custom submarines, items and total conversions
  • Port: UDP 27015 – automatically set up and opened at RespawnHost

Last updated: July 2026

Six roles, one submarine

Barotrauma splits responsibility across fixed jobs – and that's exactly where the chaos the game is known for comes from:

  • Captain: steers the boat, coordinates the crew and takes the blame when nobody listened
  • Engineer: keeps reactor and power grid running – the most thankless and most important job aboard
  • Mechanic: patches leaks and repairs machines, usually underwater and under time pressure
  • Medic: treats wounds, pressure damage and poisoning; hopefully doesn't mix up the medication
  • Security officer: fends off creatures and handles problems a weapon can solve
  • Assistant: officially responsible for everything, unofficially the source of most disasters

Which roles are available on your server and how many slots each job gets is yours to decide – useful when your group is smaller than 16 people and you still want every important post manned.

Campaign: why a permanent server pays off

Campaign mode is the reason most groups rent their own server. Unlike single missions, everything persists here: the refitted submarine, purchased equipment, the money in the account and your reputation with the factions. You work your way deeper into the ocean over weeks.

But that only works if the save is reliably available. On a rented server it lives centrally, is backed up automatically and can be restored with one click – important when a round goes so thoroughly wrong that you'd rather start over.

Mods from the Steam Workshop

Barotrauma has a very active modding scene: custom submarine designs, additional items, reworked creatures and entire total conversions. On the server you add them via the mod list and the rest runs automatically. Important: all players need the same mods, and after major game updates it's worth checking whether the authors have caught up – a prior backup saves trouble.

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