Warp: An AI Administrator for the Server You Own

Game hosting has always bundled two different things into one bill: the hardware, and the person who knows how to run it. The hardware got commoditized a long time ago; a basic rented server is priced close to cost almost everywhere you look. What's left in the markup mostly pays for the part where someone sets up the software, or gets paged because an update broke the world overnight.

Warp is our attempt to unbundle that. You rent the machine. Warp runs it.

How it actually works

Rent a plain Linux server from any provider you like, any size. You'll get an address and a login, either a password or a security key, by email, same as always. Paste those into Warp once. It connects, double-checks it's talking to the right machine, and remembers it from then on. From there, you just talk to it.

"Set up the latest Minecraft server" gets you exactly that: the software installed, the server downloaded, the terms accepted, and everything started and left running in the background, with a plain report that it's up. "Actually, switch it to Spigot instead" stops the vanilla server, builds the latest Spigot from scratch, starts it, and carries your world over. "Add a kit plugin" drops in EssentialsX, reloads, and confirms the /kit command works. No terminal window to keep open, no files to edit by hand, no error message to paste into a search bar at midnight.

Each of those replies comes with exactly what Warp did and what happened, right there in the chat, so you're never just trusting a summary. If something fails, you see the real error and what it's trying next, the same way you'd want a person you hired to explain themselves.

What it's for, and what it isn't

Warp administers servers: installing software, changing settings, swapping versions, managing plugins and mods you already have, restarting, diagnosing problems, backing up and restoring worlds. It does not write those plugins or mods for you. If what you need doesn't exist yet, that's a different job, the one Creator Hub does, and Warp will say so instead of guessing.

It's also built to double-check itself instead of assuming. Ask it to check something again, and it actually checks again instead of repeating what it said the first time. If it's still working on something, you'll see that right in the chat, not a spinner that leaves you wondering whether anything is happening.

What it costs

Warp is a flat $15 a month per environment. An environment is one machine, connected once, managed for as long as your subscription is active. No per-command billing, nothing to meter or think about. You can connect up to three environments to a single account.

The server itself is a separate bill from whoever you rented it from, at whatever rate they charge. We're not the host. We never touch the hardware, we don't mark it up, and if you cancel Warp, the machine is still yours; you just lose the chat interface to it.

Why this is a different bet than hosting

Every hosting company sells you a black box: a control panel, a handful of presets, and a support queue for everything outside those presets. Warp is the opposite bet: that plain-language help on hardware you actually own beats a nicer panel on hardware you're renting from us. If that bet is wrong for you, you keep your server and go run it some other way. Nothing about it is locked to us.

Rent a machine, connect it once, and describe what you want instead of looking it up. Tell us what you're running on Discord; we want to hear about the weird setups.