# Game server | NulNet > Paper, CS2, Rust or Palworld on a no-ID KVM from $3*: you pay the SKU, never per slot, with L3/L4 filtering included at 21 locations. No ID at signup. Source: https://nulnet.com/solutions/game-server/ [Home](https://nulnet.com/) / [Solutions](https://nulnet.com/solutions/) / Game server Workload playbook # Minecraft / CS2 VPS — No KYC, No Slot Fees, Crypto ![NulNet light KVM: racks and data flows into a black-hole void](https://nulnet.com/img/theme-vps.png) Paper, CS2, Rust or Palworld on a no-ID KVM from $3*: you pay the SKU, never per slot, with L3/L4 filtering included at 21 locations. Published 2026-08-30 · Updated 2026-09-08 · NulNet Editorial **Short answer** Pick the SKU by RAM, put the box near the players, and install the official or vendor binary yourself — Paper for Minecraft, SteamCMD for CS2 and Rust. Included L3/L4 filtering absorbs the volumetric noise; you run the game. Checkout is Bitcoin, USDT or XMR with no ID step. NulNet: VPS from $3/mo and dedicated from $30.80/mo annual. The map spans twenty-one locations — Reykjavik (Iceland) and Zurich (Switzerland) among them, plus Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town and fourteen others. Signup is email plus a 12-character password, or token-only. No KYC. Checkout is crypto-only across BTC, XMR, ETH, BNB, SOL, LTC, TRX, XRP, DOGE, DASH, ADA, GRAM (TON), and USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20/BEP-20/SPL). No payload or guest traffic logs; connection metadata ≤24h. DDoS included. One SKN company, one crypto checkout. Deploy at https://nulnet.com/deploy/. ## What people actually run [Minecraft: setting up a server](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server) is the official Java server, and Paper or Purpur are the drop-in community builds on top of it. Valve titles install through [Valve SteamCMD](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD) — [Counter-Strike 2 dedicated servers](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike_2/Dedicated_Servers) for Counter-Strike 2, [Rust dedicated server](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Rust_Dedicated_Server) for Rust — and multi-instance operators wrap everything in the [Pterodactyl panel](https://pterodactyl.io/) panel. Managed shops (Apex, Shockbyte and peers) sell convenience on card rails with per-slot pricing. The alternative this page documents: install those same official binaries on a VM you control, pay the invoice in coins, and keep root. VPS from $3* (fund $50+), storage 1–5 TB NVMe from $24/mo annual-eff, dedicated with IPMI from $30.80/mo. Crypto invoice, no KYC. [Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=pro/) ## Who this is for Size the box Private Minecraft, a few friends Sentry at $7.50 list ($6.00 annual-eff) — 2 vCPU / 4 GB ECC carries Paper for a small group. USDT settles the invoice. Modded pack or 20+ players Ranger ($12.50 / $10.00) or Warden ($19.00 / $15.20). Track RAM first; cores rarely bind first. CS2 / Rust tickrate Warden to start; dedicated when the hypervisor is measurably the bottleneck. Metal is bought with the same crypto checkout. Many instances, one panel [Pterodactyl panel](https://pterodactyl.io/) sitting on dedicated, with Wings agents on extra VPS nodes. ## Sizing by game - **Minecraft:** the RAM hog of the list — budget 8 GB as the entry point for a modded community; Warden is the usual floor, Vanguard for heavyweight modpacks. - **CS2:** tick-rate bound — a strong single-thread clock beats core count here, which is what the EPYC 9454P at the top of the VPS line (Vanguard/Sentinel) is for. - **Rust:** memory plus disk I/O — 16 GB and NVMe from the start, both of which every tier ships. ## Playbook From crypto invoice to a listen port - Buy a VPS with Bitcoin or USDT. No KYC. Amsterdam for EU players. - Install from [Minecraft: setting up a server](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server) or [Valve SteamCMD](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD). Open the game UDP/TCP ports. - Unmetered is not infinite CPU. Move to Dedicated ($30.80/mo) when neighbours steal cycles. ## The attack reality A public server is a target from its first day in the browser list: rivals with a grudge, bots sweeping ranges, and booter hobbyists who paid five dollars to ruin an evening. Included L3/L4 filtering absorbs the volumetric share of that — the floods that otherwise end a community's night. What it deliberately does not do is read your game protocol: vote-site spam, chat floods and exploit payloads live in plugin and panel territory. That boundary is exactly why filtering belongs in the platform invoice rather than behind a per-IP upsell. ## Placement Latency is the whole player experience, so choose the rack by where the players live: Dallas for US Central, Tokyo for JP and KR, Frankfurt for the EU core, Sao Paulo for Brazil. One SKU price spans all twenty-one flags — Iceland and Switzerland aside, which carry published premiums — so relocating a community closer to its base is a re-deploy and an rsync, not a renegotiation with a sales desk. ## Money and the upgrade path The billing logic stays un-game-like: you pay the SKU, never a per-slot fee, so a full weekend and an empty Wednesday cost the same. Sentry covers the small circle at $7.50 list ($6.00 annual-eff on a 12-month term); Ranger and Warden carry growing communities; Vanguard and Sentinel put a high-clock EPYC under tick-sensitive titles. When metrics — not folklore — show neighbour noise, the same account upgrades the world onto a [dedicated unit](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/) with whole cores and IPMI, or parks backups and old maps on the [NVMe storage ladder](https://nulnet.com/storage/). Sixteen coins settle every step. Can I install a Windows game server? Yes — a Windows ISO is an option on the KVM line, though Linux is the default and what most guides, panels and Docker images assume. Both have full root. Can I pay a game VPS with crypto? Yes. Bitcoin, Monero, USDT across four networks and the rest of the sixteen-coin catalog settle the invoice with no card and no ID anywhere in the flow. Per-slot pricing? No. You pay the SKU once, and player count costs nothing extra beyond RAM and CPU headroom. A 100-slot Minecraft world is still Sentry or Ranger if the RAM fits. Is DDoS included? L3/L4 filtering runs on every plan at no extra charge and absorbs volumetric junk; L7 or game-layer abuse still needs your plugins, panel rules or a proxy. Palworld / Valheim / Enshrouded? Allowed workloads like any other game process. Size RAM the way you would for a modded Minecraft pack and keep the box near the player base. How fast is provisioning? A VPS provisions roughly a minute after the coin invoice confirms, so a new community world is usually installable the same evening — dedicated metal takes 2–4 hours. ## Primary sources - [Minecraft: setting up a server](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server) - [Pterodactyl panel](https://pterodactyl.io/) - [Valve SteamCMD](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD) - [Counter-Strike 2 dedicated servers](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike_2/Dedicated_Servers) - [Rust dedicated server](https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Rust_Dedicated_Server) ## Related guides - [Minimum-data no-KYC checkout](https://nulnet.com/guides/anonymous-vps-crypto-no-kyc/) - [Buy a VPS with crypto](https://nulnet.com/buy-vps-with-crypto/) - [No-KYC VPS: requirements and limits](https://nulnet.com/no-kyc-vps/) - [Pay with Monero](https://nulnet.com/monero-vps/) - [Offshore VPS](https://nulnet.com/offshore-vps/) - [VPS vs dedicated bare-metal](https://nulnet.com/guides/vps-vs-dedicated/) - [Best no-KYC VPS 2026](https://nulnet.com/best-no-kyc-vps-2026/) - [FAQ: crypto VPS](https://nulnet.com/guides/faq-crypto-vps/) ## Checkout facts - **Price** VPS from $3/mo. Dedicated from $30.80/mo. - **Identity** No KYC. Token-only (no email) or email plus a 12-character password. No passport, phone, or card. - **Payment** Sixteen ways to settle, none of them a card: XMR and BTC lead, ETH, SOL, LTC, BNB and TRX follow, then XRP, DOGE, DASH and ADA, GRAM (TON) for Telegram-adjacent rails, and USDT on four networks — TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20, SPL. Live-rate invoice. - **Logs** No payload / no guest traffic logs. Billing and panel actions retained. Connection metadata ≤24h. - **Platform** KVM on ECC and local NVMe. DDoS filtering included. Facilities in 21 cities across four continents — the locations table lists each one's tier, uplink and governing law. Need Iceland or Switzerland plus no KYC? Those two carry a published premium (+20% / +35%); every other flag stays at base list. Pay BTC, USDT, XMR, BNB, XRP, GRAM (TON) or 10 more. Open deploy to pick a plan. ## Ready to launch? Build the box — VPS, storage or bare metal — create the password, pay the invoice that follows. [Launch now](https://nulnet.com/deploy/?kind=vps&plan=pro/)[Dedicated](https://nulnet.com/dedicated/)