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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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.