How To Make an ARK: Survival Evolved Server (2022)

today we're going to show you how to host your own Ark survival evolved server and basically how to join it how to create it and how to get it started it's all going to be covered here we're going to be doing this using Apex Minecraft hosting which you can find in the description down below to breakdown.xyz slash Apex Arc it's a really really awesome service they've recently added Arc to their stable of games in addition to Minecraft so once you're on this page here click get started and then click on Arc right here right there that Arc logo click on that now for Arc you do need a minimum of a four gig server and that's going to be plenty for us here but should you notice that you need more players or one to one a larger world five six or even 10 gigs may be required but 14.99 a month for your first month and then after that 99 a month for the 4 Gig server for Arc so now here we are Arc is automatically selected for us but we do need to select a server location you can test your ping for example I don't know if Dallas is going to be better 54 or if Miami is going to be better for me so it's test being in Miami and Miami is much better 24 for me so let's go ahead and click on my Annie there you can select any of these there are tons of locations around the world for you to choose from nevertheless we can then click continue and go through the purchase process click continue again on this next page by clicking checkout and then enter in your billing details we've done that now greeted the terms of service and complete the order and when you do that it's going to take you off to basically the confirmation page right right now the server is getting set up everything's getting kind of going and then once it finishes it will take you to the confirmation page where you'll have your order number as well as what to look out for and specifically you're going to look out for an email once you have completed the checkout it will take you to this page or you can click no down here you can see you have your order number and you've got kind of a getting started page here however what you really want to look for is your email right go to your email because in your email you're going to have this email which has all the information about your server here as you can see we have the IP right we'll use this little layer as well as the panel login I want to go ahead and log into the panel right now so let's go ahead and click on that I'm actually going to uh copy the link here here and then come back over here and paste it because Chrome's on my primary browser but here we are I've already logged in you will land on a login page that looks like this where you'll need to log in and then once you log in you can select your server so mine is right here this is the arc server as you can see if we click on console on the left hand side we can see the service update right that's what's happening right now the server is updating and it will take about 10 minutes we're doing different updates here right as you can see we've done a few and once this is finished updating here we will be able to join the server so let's just go ahead and do a quick jump cut until this update's finished should be less than 10 minutes and there we go the startup is now finished we know this because it says startup console is ready and now if we go ahead and click back up here at the top where it says daily videos server for you it'll say whatever your username is server or you can click back but what we want to do is get back to this main page here that once we're here here's the IPS if you're on epic games and joining that way I can't really help you from this point forward you'll have to enter in the IP but on Steam which is what we're going to be using we can copy it right here right so here is the steam IP just click copy and it copies it then we want to go ahead and open up steam and I've already done that here we are we can come up here to the top left of steam click on view and then we want to go ahead and click servers so on the top left is theme click view servers and then what we want to do you'll be here right click on favorites up here at the top click on this favorites button and then once we're in this favorites button we want to click add a server in here paste your IP address click add this to favorites and boom automatically it says Apex hosting Arc server showing that it is in fact working we can go ahead and close out of this and what we want to do is launch up Arc so I'm going to go ahead and do that really fast here we are Arc is open and from Arc we can click join Arc then what we want to do is down here under session filter we want to click favorites so we can zoom in on this right you can just click session filter favorites there it is Arc server Apex hosting Arc server click on it and click join and now it's going to join us right on into the server right like so first time you join is usually going to take a little longer than every time after that but we are joining on in it's loading everything up getting everything going one of the cool things is Apex does make sure that the arc server is set up we're just going to go ahead and jump right on in with this Survivor here just the default one right nothing crazy and we are on an RX server awesome stuff if you have any questions let us know in the comment section down below but uh you now know how to make an arc server the quickest and easiest way possible with Apex the thing I love about Apex is you kind of just buy the server wait 10-15 minutes and then you can join your server it's that simple and also by default has the ability for both uh epic games and steam right so no worries there they give you both IPS you have to request anything or do anything like that it just works so nevertheless thanks for watching we'll see you in the next topic I am out.