{"url":"https://nexovirt.com/game-server-hosting","title":"Game server hosting software for providers · NexoVirt","description":"Start a game server hosting business: a shop, billing and customer portal for Pterodactyl and Pelican, a game catalog and VPS next to it.","markdown_url":"https://nexovirt.com/game-server-hosting.md","sections":[{"heading":"Game server hosting software for your own hosting business","content":"Sell Minecraft, Rust, Valheim and other game servers under your own name. NexoVirt is the shop, the billing and the customer portal. Your Pterodactyl or Pelican panel runs the games.\n\n[Start a 14-day Business trial](https://nexovirt.com/account/trial) [See pricing](https://nexovirt.com/pricing)\n\nFlat monthly price, never a fee per game server. No card needed for the trial.\n\n![Game servers in NexoVirt with their customer, game, status and game panel](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/game-servers-dark.webp?v=1793892600)\n\nEvery game server you sell, with its customer, game and status."},{"heading":"How to start a game server hosting business","content":"You need a game panel, products and a way to take money. NexoVirt covers the last two.\n\n1. Connect your game panel\n\nAdd your Pterodactyl or Pelican panel in a 3-step dialog. NexoVirt reads the eggs and builds the game catalog.\n2. Create your products\n\nPrices, billing periods, setup fees, and the games each product offers.\n3. Open the shop\n\nCustomers pay with Stripe, PayPal or their balance. The game server is created after the payment.\n\n![The game catalog with one card per game](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/games-catalog-dark.webp?v=1793892600) ![The order page where the player picks the game](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/games-checkout-dark.webp?v=1793892600)\n\n![A game server in the customer portal with its address and subscription](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/portal-game-card-dark.webp?v=1793892600)\n\n![The status page with uptime per location](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/portal-status-dark.webp?v=1793892600)"},{"heading":"What your players get","content":"### A game picked at checkout\n\nOne card per game with its picture. The player picks the game on the order page.\n\n### Change game themselves\n\n\"Change game\" in your portal switches the server to another game. NexoVirt takes a backup first.\n\n### Their server in one place\n\nThe portal shows the address, the subscription, invoices and live usage, with a link to the game panel for console and files.\n\n### Help when they need it\n\nTickets with attachments, your FAQ and a status page with uptime and maintenance.\n\n[See the customer portal](https://nexovirt.com/proxmox-customer-portal)\n\n- Flat price\n\nPriced by node. Selling more game servers never costs you more.\n- Your brand\n\nYour logo, name, colours and own domains for the portal.\n- Invoices with EU VAT\n\nA numbered PDF per payment, with OSS rates or reverse charge.\n- Resellers\n\nPartners sell under their own brand on the Unlimited plan.\n\n[Reseller portal →](https://nexovirt.com/proxmox-reseller-portal)"},{"heading":"Sell more than game servers","content":"One shop and one account for everything a player or a clan buys from you.\n\nGame servers    VPS for players    Web hosting    Add-ons\n\n![A game server product in NexoVirt with the games it offers and its locations](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/game-product-dark.webp?v=1793892600)\n\nProducts on your Pterodactyl or Pelican panel. Offer every switched-on game or only some, per product.\n\n[Pterodactyl billing in detail](https://nexovirt.com/pterodactyl-billing)\n\n![Creating a server in the NexoVirt customer portal](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/portal-create-dark.webp?v=1793892600)\n\nKVM VMs and LXC containers on your Proxmox nodes for players who run their own server software.\n\n[VPS control panel](https://nexovirt.com/vps-control-panel)\n\n![Web hosting subscriptions on Plesk and HestiaCP servers in NexoVirt](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/hosting-subscriptions-dark.webp?v=1793892600)\n\nWebspace for a clan site or a community forum on your Plesk or HestiaCP servers.\n\n[Plesk billing](https://nexovirt.com/plesk-billing)\n\n![A subscription in the NexoVirt customer portal with plan changes and add-ons](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/portal-subscription-dark.webp?v=1793892600)\n\nExtra IPs, disk and backup slots for VPS, custom add-ons for services, and plan upgrades with proration.\n\n[See the shop](https://nexovirt.com/features/shop)"},{"heading":"Hosters already run on NexoVirt","content":"Hosters such as Norway-vps run their hosting business on NexoVirt.\n\nPanels online in the last 14 days 55+\n\nProxmox nodes managed 75+\n\nVMs and containers managed 690+\n\nreleases since June 2026 146\n\nStarting small? The **Community Edition** runs VPS on 2 nodes for free, without the shop: [Install free](https://docs.nexovirt.com/getting-started/installation/)."},{"heading":"Game server hosting FAQ","content":"What is game server hosting software?It is everything around the game panel that a hosting business needs: products with prices, a shop, payments, invoices, renewals, suspension of unpaid servers and a portal for customers. Pterodactyl or Pelican runs the game servers; NexoVirt is the software that sells and bills them.\n\nHow do I start a game server hosting business?Run a Pterodactyl or Pelican panel on your servers, connect it to NexoVirt, create products with prices and the games they offer, and open the shop. Customers pay first and the game server is created on its own after the payment.\n\nWhich games can I sell?The games your Pterodactyl or Pelican eggs provide. NexoVirt turns the eggs into one card per real game with its picture, such as Minecraft, Rust, Valheim or ARK, and you switch each one on or off.\n\nDo I need my own servers?Yes. NexoVirt is self-hosted and sells capacity you run yourself: your game panel and its nodes, and optionally Proxmox nodes for VPS and Plesk or HestiaCP servers for web hosting.\n\nCan I sell VPS and web hosting next to game servers?Yes. VPS on Proxmox, web hosting on Plesk and HestiaCP and game servers share one shop, one customer account and one invoice per payment.\n\nWhat does it cost?The shop and the provisioning modules come with the Business plan at EUR 79 a month for 20 nodes and the Unlimited plan at EUR 149 a month, prices incl. VAT. There is no fee per game server or per customer, and you can try Business for 14 days."},{"heading":"Related pages","content":"- [   Pterodactyl billing The Pterodactyl and Pelican module in detail.  ](https://nexovirt.com/pterodactyl-billing)\n- [   Hosting billing software One panel bills VPS, web hosting and game servers.  ](https://nexovirt.com/hosting-billing-software)\n- [   WordPress hosting shop Pricing cards and sign-up on your WordPress site.  ](https://nexovirt.com/wordpress-hosting-shop)\n- [   Status page Uptime, maintenance and incidents for your players.  ](https://nexovirt.com/features/status-page)\n- [   Pricing Flat prices by node, never per game server.  ](https://nexovirt.com/pricing)\n- [   NAT and port forwarding Reach servers on private addresses.  ](https://nexovirt.com/blog/proxmox-nat-port-forwarding)\n\n![The NexoVirt game catalog with one card per game](https://nexovirt.com/assets/img/screenshots/games-catalog-dark.webp?v=1793892600)"},{"heading":"Open your game server shop","content":"Connect your game panel and take the first order within the 14-day Business trial. No card needed.\n\n[Start a 14-day Business trial](https://nexovirt.com/account/trial) [See pricing](https://nexovirt.com/pricing)"}],"faq":[{"question":"What is game server hosting software?","answer":"It is everything around the game panel that a hosting business needs: products with prices, a shop, payments, invoices, renewals, suspension of unpaid servers and a portal for customers. Pterodactyl or Pelican runs the game servers; NexoVirt is the software that sells and bills them."},{"question":"How do I start a game server hosting business?","answer":"Run a Pterodactyl or Pelican panel on your servers, connect it to NexoVirt, create products with prices and the games they offer, and open the shop. Customers pay first and the game server is created on its own after the payment."},{"question":"Which games can I sell?","answer":"The games your Pterodactyl or Pelican eggs provide. NexoVirt turns the eggs into one card per real game with its picture, such as Minecraft, Rust, Valheim or ARK, and you switch each one on or off."},{"question":"Do I need my own servers?","answer":"Yes. NexoVirt is self-hosted and sells capacity you run yourself: your game panel and its nodes, and optionally Proxmox nodes for VPS and Plesk or HestiaCP servers for web hosting."},{"question":"Can I sell VPS and web hosting next to game servers?","answer":"Yes. VPS on Proxmox, web hosting on Plesk and HestiaCP and game servers share one shop, one customer account and one invoice per payment."},{"question":"What does it cost?","answer":"The shop and the provisioning modules come with the Business plan at EUR 79 a month for 20 nodes and the Unlimited plan at EUR 149 a month, prices incl. VAT. There is no fee per game server or per customer, and you can try Business for 14 days."}]}