Squad Server Hosting - Getting Started Guide

Welcome to Squad server hosting at Wasabi Hosting! Squad is Offworld Industries’ 100-player tactical first-person shooter where teamwork and communication win battles — combined-arms warfare with infantry squads, vehicles, logistics, and player-built fortifications across large-scale maps. Running your own server means your community plays by your rules: your map rotation, your admin team, your mods.

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What Makes Squad Servers Special

• 100 players across two teams, organized into squads with leaders coordinating over positional voice chat.
• Logistics matter — supplies, forward operating bases, and vehicle claims give servers a real strategic layer that benefits from consistent, active administration.
• Community-driven — the best Squad experiences come from well-run community servers with clear rules and present admins. That’s exactly what this documentation helps you build.

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Licensed vs. Unlicensed Servers

Squad community servers come in two flavors: Unlicensed servers are completely fine for communities, events, and testing — many groups run one while building the playerbase and admin history that a license application asks for. If you obtain a license, you’ll add it via License.cfg (see Server Configuration).

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Steam Workshop Mods

Squad supports mods through the Steam Workshop — custom maps, new factions, and full gameplay overhauls. Your server loads the mods, adds their layers to the rotation, and clients auto-download the mods when they join. See Installing Mods for details.

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Quick Start

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Why Host Squad at Wasabi Hosting?

• Hardware built for 100 players — Squad’s server tick and vehicle simulation are demanding at full population. Our AMD Ryzen 7950X3D / 9950X CPUs with DDR5 RAM and NVMe SSDs keep servers smooth even on seed-to-full nights.
• DDoS protection included — GCore protection with 200+ Tbps capacity at no extra cost, so match night doesn’t go down to an attack.
• Three locations — Amsterdam (NL), Frankfurt (DE), and Ashburn (US East) on our own network (AS215370) and our own hardware.
• Instant setup — your server deploys automatically about 2 minutes after payment.
• Full control — the Wasabi Hosting Game Panel provides a live console, File Manager for all your .cfg files, one-click backups, schedules, sub-users for your admin team, and SFTP access.
• Painless upgrades — grow from a scrim server to a full public community server anytime; upgrades keep all your files.

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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.