Hosting
WARDOGS server hosting
Three hosts, three sizes, from £49.95 a month. Bulkhead named QONZER and BisectHosting on 7 September as the only companies with the server code, then added xREALM on the 8th. All three take pre-orders for 60, 80 and 100-player servers that go live with Early Access on the 10th. You cannot run one yourself — Bulkhead does not release the code to anyone — and nobody else can sell you one, whatever their order page says.
The three approved hosts
Read off each host's order page on 2026-09-08. Bulkhead does not set these prices and takes no cut: it "instead asked them to run better hardware".
QONZER
Read off the order page on 7 September. 5% off quarterly, 10% half-yearly, 15% yearly. Billed in GBP, USD, EUR, CAD, AUD or TRY.
- Frankfurt
- London
- Paris
- Warsaw
- Los Angeles
- New Jersey
- New York
- Salt Lake City
- Singapore
- Sydney
- Tokyo
Dallas and Washington DC listed as out of stock.
BisectHosting
The order page printed the slot and RAM tiers but not the monthly figures when read on 7 September; the dollar figures are from a player's screenshot of the same page ($2.99 per GB), and one European player quotes €86 a month for 100 slots. 10% off quarterly, 15% half-yearly, 20% yearly.
"21 worldwide locations", not named on the page.
xREALM
Read off the order page on 8 September, the day Bulkhead named it. Sold as Squad, Platoon and Company; the page lists AMD EPYC CPUs, "unlimited" RAM and storage, and DDoS protection on every size, and no discount for paying ahead.
- Frankfurt
- Helsinki
- Strasbourg
- New York
- Dallas
- Los Angeles
- São Paulo
- Singapore
- Sydney
The only approved host with a South American city.
Where you can rent one
By the same regions as the server list. A region with no city has no approved host yet — South Africa was the first thing the replies asked about, and none of the three names it. São Paulo, from xREALM, is the first South American box.
| Region | QONZER | xREALM | BisectHosting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Frankfurt, London, Paris, Warsaw | Frankfurt, Helsinki, Strasbourg | 21 locations, not named |
| North America East | New Jersey, New York | New York | 21 locations, not named |
| North America West | Los Angeles, Salt Lake City | Los Angeles, Dallas | 21 locations, not named |
| Oceania | Sydney | Sydney | 21 locations, not named |
| Asia | Singapore, Tokyo | Singapore | 21 locations, not named |
| South America | none | São Paulo | 21 locations, not named |
| Middle East | none | none | 21 locations, not named |
| Africa | none | none | 21 locations, not named |
WARDOGS server customization
ConfirmedWhat you can customize on day one: the maps and modes your server runs. Bulkhead set that limit itself on 29 August, before anyone could order one:
Day one we aren't going to let you turn everything off... But, we will let you start to choose what maps and modes you play. Going forward, we'll of course allow more and more control of what is in your server, subject to the economy.
The tool is an RCON panel that works on every approved host — "where they can directly control their server, live, regardless of their hosting platform". Its overview, from the screenshot in that thread, is drawn alongside. Nothing in it is a shop setting, and "subject to the economy" is why: WARDOGS keeps your cash between matches on one account, so a server that could hand out free vehicles would be printing money into the same economy everyone else plays in. Whether cash and XP earned on a community server count the same as on an official one is the question Bulkhead has not answered. No mod support has been announced; the panel's Modifications row reads None.
- Server
- Wardogs Demo Server
- Players
- 13 / 32
- Map
- Bakurani
- Game mode
- King of the Hill
- Modifications
- None
- Time of day and weather
- Day, clear
- Control zone
- Factory Circle
- Score tick
- 24s (range 18–30)
- Rotation
- entry 1 now, 2 next
Redrawn from Bulkhead's 29 August screenshot of a demo server. The rows are what the tool showed; the values are the demo's, not a live server's.
Why so few
ConfirmedBecause the server code stays with Bulkhead. Its 29 August thread gave two reasons and one note. Performance: it has "witnessed other FPS games that have allowed server hosts to overload their server infrastructure to increase their profits", so it wrote a server contract that "demands certain standards are not just met but consistently maintained", and tested hosts against it "with our players since April 2026". Security: "the bad actors can use the information in our server code to breach our security systems." The note: it turned down the profit-share deals hosts offered, "and instead asked them to run better hardware".
The result is the sentence that matters if you are about to pay: "anyone will be able to host a server from the approved hosting companies", and nobody will be able to host one any other way. "There are others in the pipeline", it said on 29 August; xREALM, named ten days later, was the first of them.
The hosts that took pre-orders anyway
ConfirmedFour hosts opened WARDOGS order pages in August. Bulkhead's 29 August post was about them: "These providers do not have access to the game or server code as we have been so protective of it." A pre-order with any of these is for a server that cannot exist at launch. They are listed so the names are checkable, not as options.
Questions people ask
How much does a WARDOGS server cost?
From £49.95 a month for 60 players at QONZER, up to £69.95 for 100, with 5%, 10% or 15% off for paying quarterly, half-yearly or yearly. xREALM charges $69.99, $79.99 and $114.99 for the same three sizes, with no discount for paying ahead. BisectHosting's 60, 80 and 100 sizes come with 24, 28 and 32 GB; its page did not print monthly prices when read, and players' screenshots show about $72, $84 and $96. Per player, all three land between 70p and $1.20 a month.
Can I host my own?
No. Not on your PC, not on a rented machine. The server code is not released, so the only route is a rented box from one of the three approved hosts.
How many players fit on one?
60, 80 or 100. A full WARDOGS match is 100 players across three teams, so 100 is the real thing and the other two are smaller, cheaper lobbies.
When can I join it?
10 September, when Early Access opens. A pre-order holds the server; BisectHosting says plainly that "you will not be able to join the WARDOGS server until the official launch".
What would change this page
A fourth approved host, a price change on any order page, BisectHosting naming its locations, or Bulkhead saying how community-server play counts towards the economy. The three Bulkhead posts everything above rests on: @WARDOGS, "Attention Server Admins" — approved hosting partners named, X, 7 September 2026 ↗, @WARDOGS, "Announcing an additional hosting partner. xREALM.", X, 8 September 2026 ↗ and @WARDOGS, thread on server hosting — two approved hosts, no server code released, RCON tool, X, 29 August 2026 ↗.
Related
Every announced community server, by region
Who is running one, in which region and language. Rented from one of these three hosts.
The announcement, in full
What Bulkhead posted on 29 August and 7 September, quoted.
xREALM named as the third host
The 8 September post, and what the new host charges against the first two.
How the economy works
The persistent cash balance that decides what a server admin is allowed to change.
Is WARDOGS down?
Live outage reports, for when it is not your server.