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Welcome to S&Box server hosting at Wasabi Hosting! S&Box (pronounced “sandbox”) is the modern sandbox game platform from Facepunch Studios, the team behind Garry’s Mod and Rust. Widely seen as the spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod, it’s built on Source 2 and designed from day one as a platform where creators build entire games and gamemodes that communities can play together.

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What Makes S&Box Different

S&Box isn’t a single game; it’s a platform. Creators publish games, gamemodes, maps, and assets to the S&Box ecosystem, and players jump between those experiences the way Garry’s Mod players once hopped between DarkRP, TTT, and Prop Hunt servers. Compared to its predecessor, S&Box brings:
  • Source 2: modern rendering, physics, and tooling far beyond the original Source engine.
  • C# instead of Lua, so creators build with modern .NET tooling, which means more ambitious games and faster iteration.
  • A built-in content ecosystem: games and assets are distributed through the official S&Box hub, so servers and players pull the content they need automatically.

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Why Run a Dedicated S&Box Server?

  • Your own persistent community server: pick the game or gamemode your server runs and keep it online 24/7. Your community always has a home address to come back to.
  • You set the rules, so server settings, content, and moderation are yours to control.
  • Reliable performance: a dedicated server on proper hardware beats a peer-hosted lobby, especially for physics-heavy Source 2 gameplay.
  • Full panel control: the Wasabi Hosting Game Panel gives you a live console, File Manager, backups, schedules, startup parameters, and sub-users.
S&Box is a young, fast-evolving platform. Server tooling, commands, and configuration details change as Facepunch iterates, so our guides stay high-level where things are still moving, and the in-panel console plus official Facepunch news are your best sources for current specifics.

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Guides

Getting Started

From ordering your server to your community playing: choose a gamemode, boot, and go.

File Management

Manage your server’s files with the built-in File Manager or SFTP.

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Why Host S&Box at Wasabi Hosting?

  • Fast hardware: AMD Ryzen 7950X3D and 9950X CPUs with DDR5 RAM and NVMe SSD storage. Source 2 servers love strong single-core performance.
  • DDoS protection included: every server is protected by GCore with over 200 Tbps of filtering capacity, at no extra cost.
  • Three locations: Amsterdam (NL), Frankfurt (DE), and Ashburn (US East), all on our own network (AS215370) and our own hardware.
  • Instant setup, so your server deploys automatically about 2 minutes after payment.
  • Painless upgrades: grow your community, upgrade your plan anytime, and keep all your files.

Get Your S&Box Server

S&Box server hosting from €10.00/month, online roughly 2 minutes after payment, with DDoS protection and 24/7 support included.

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Need Help?

Our team is available around the clock. Open a support ticket, join our Discord, or email hello@wasabihosting.com.