Servers that don't
die after a month
Home to modded Minecraft, Valheim, Palworld and more, built by the community and self-funded since 2021. We run our own hardware, so your world stays exactly where you left it. No pay-to-win, ever.
Pick your world
Our Game Servers
![Cisco's Fantasy Medieval RPG [Dragonfyre]](/images/servers/dragonfyre.jpg)
Why players stick around
Built for the long haul
Your world stays put
Popular or quiet, our servers keep running. We don’t wipe worlds on a whim. With regular backups and hardware we own, your builds are still here whenever you come back.
Built by the community
Since 2021, the packs and games we run are chosen by the people who play them. You suggest it, we listen, and we make it happen. The community is the heart of this place.
No pay-to-win. Ever.
Support unlocks ranks, cosmetics, and quality-of-life commands, never items or power. Everyone competes on exactly the same footing.
Hardware we own, not rented
Every server runs on machines we own and tune ourselves, not throttled cloud rentals. Supporting us keeps them fast, smooth, and online for the next person.
Our story
This isn't our first server
StrictGaming was born in 2021, but the person behind it has been hosting, modding, and building communities since 2007. Every lesson from the last fifteen-plus years went into what you play on today.
2007
Old School RuneScape
It started with one of the more popular OSRS servers of its day. This is where the passion for hosting, modding, and building experiences for other people to enjoy first took hold.
The years after
Custom Rust servers
Hand-built objectives, arenas, and game modes that pulled in big crowds and turned into something players kept coming back for.
2016 to 2020
EliteExile (Arma 3)
An Exile zombie-mod server that ranked among the top five most popular of its kind before it finally powered down.
2021 to today
StrictGaming
Everything learned over the years poured into one community-run home for modded Minecraft, Valheim, Palworld, and more.
Built on hardware we own
The setup has come a long way from its early Xeon days. Today every server runs on high-end Ryzen 9950X CPUs, Gen5 NVMe storage, and a 10Gbps fiber backbone, all owned outright and tuned by hand. Most of that came down to years of trial, error, and research to squeeze out the smoothest performance possible.
None of this is finished. It has all been self-funded as a hobby, driven by one simple goal: giving people somewhere great to play. It is not perfect, and there is always more to learn, but with enough determination it will keep getting better.
The bigger picture is to grow StrictGaming into something that lives everywhere. With enough support behind us, we want to expand into regions all around the world, so it does not matter whether you are playing from North America, Europe, Asia, or anywhere in between. Everyone gets the low latency and smooth performance they deserve, close to home. That is the dream we are building toward, one server at a time.
Your next world is one click away
Jump into the Discord to grab modpack links, meet the community, and find out what everyone's playing right now.