Host your own Aloft server and float between sky islands with up to 8 co-op players — full sailing, farming, and island-flipping mechanics, backed by dedicated hardware, persistent worlds, and daily backups.
Transparent pricing for Aloft server hosting. All plans include NVMe storage, DDoS protection, and our modern panel.
Our modified Pterodactyl panel gives you everything you need to manage a dedicated game server from any device.
Every server you run, on one screen. Live CPU, RAM, network, and player counts update in real time — no refresh, no terminal, no hunting through tabs. Start, stop, or restart any instance with a single click.
13 data centers across 5 continents. Pick the location closest to your players at checkout — switch anytime.
Aloft is a sky-island survival and exploration game from Astrolabe Interactive, launched in Early Access in 2025. You build and steer your own floating island around a procedurally generated archipelago, collecting seeds, farming, crafting, taming creatures, and flipping corrupted islands to cure them. Up to 8 players can share a single persistent world.
Because the whole world is your island, Aloft's dedicated server model keeps your sky-base persistent between sessions. That includes farm growth, crafting queues, tamed creatures, and the islands you've flipped — no more losing progress because the host went offline.
Server requirements are modest for the small player cap: 4–6 GB RAM handles an 8-player server comfortably. We preconfigure the expected UDP ports, crossplay settings (PC-only at launch), and a daily backup schedule. Aloft uses Unity under the hood, which means single-thread CPU performance matters — another area where our Ryzen 9 nodes pull ahead of budget hosts.
“Setup was instant. I was uploading my world within two minutes of checkout.”
“Latency from the EU node is under 30ms for my whole squad. Zero rubber-banding even on intense sessions.”
“Support actually knows the games. Had a config issue resolved in 20 minutes at 2am.”
“Backups saved a 200-hour save after a mod broke it. One-click restore, worth the plan by itself.”
“Panel is miles better than what I was on before. I don't even miss SFTP.”
“Switching between games without paying again is the feature I didn't know I needed.”
8 players in the current Early Access build. All our plans support the full 8-slot capacity.
PC only at the moment. Steam is the shipping platform.
Yes — upload your save files via the panel's file manager or SFTP, and the server will load your existing island. We document the exact save file locations in the Aloft template README.
The entire world — your sky island, other explored islands, NPC progress, and crafting queues — persists in the save directory. Daily backups are included on every plan, so a bad patch or a corrupted save never costs you more than 24 hours.
Community modding is early. We provide full file access so you can drop in mods as the scene develops. Official modding support has not been announced.
Unity games are typically bottlenecked by their main thread, which runs physics and AI. High IPC and clock speed (our 7950X3D) keeps ticks stable more than having more cores would.
