Free GTPS hosting for your Growtopia private server

“Free” here means 0 IDR with nothing to cancel and no card on file. There is no trial countdown and no feature that expires after a week. What you get:

Cost

0 IDR. No payment method required to register or create a server.

Servers

One server per account, same as every paid plan.

Inactivity

Renew every 3 hours to keep running. Sleeps after 1 hour with no players, removed after 7 days without being started.

Console

The live server console, with the same output view as any plan.

Backups

One configuration backup.

Hosting

The server runs on our infrastructure, so it does not depend on your own computer being on.

In short: everything you need to learn how a private server works, and nothing that requires a payment decision to find out whether you want one.

Being straightforward about this, because a free plan that oversells itself wastes your time more than a paid one:

• Three custom items. Free servers hold 3 custom items with their textures. A content-heavy server with a large catalog needs Plus, Pro or Max.
• No Lua plugin editing. You can run a server, but building its behaviour with plugins needs the Plus plan or above.
• Sized for learning. The free plan is enough to learn on and to run a quiet world. It is not enough for a busy community or a large custom-content world.
• Renewal clock. See below. This is the one that surprises people most.

The pricing page compares all four plans side by side, and the GTPS hosting page covers what each plan is actually for.

A free server costs real compute while it runs, so it runs on a clock. Every 3 hours the server must be renewed by pressing the Renew button in the panel. The clock runs whether the server is busy or empty, so parking a second account on the server does not keep it alive. Renewing takes one click and a quick bot check, and it does not restart the server or disconnect anyone.

What this means in practice:

• You start it, not your players. A stopped server does not wake when someone tries to join. Open the panel, press Start and pass the quick bot check.
• Renew every 3 hours for a full session. The dashboard shows the countdown. One press adds 3 hours, as many times as you like.
• Seven days without a start means it is removed. A free server that has not been started for 7 days is deleted to free the slot. Renewing counts as activity. Paid servers are never removed this way.
• It suits learning and small communities rather than a permanently busy world, which is exactly what the size of the plan is for.

If you need a server that is always running with no renewal, that is what the paid plans are for: Plus and above never sleep and are never removed for inactivity.

Yes, for what it is for. The free plan answers the question that actually stops people: do I even want to run a private server? You can create one, connect to it from any platform, and see whether the whole thing is something you want to spend time on, before spending anything.

It is also a safe place to make mistakes. Custom content, plugins and an economy are all things you can break in creative ways, and a throwaway world is the sensible place to learn that.

If you want to search for it in Indonesian, this is hosting GTPS gratis: a real server, not a demo, at no cost. When it outgrows the free tier, the paid plans start at 50,000 IDR per 30 days and keep your world files, configuration and plugins.