Good Cheap Server Host for 3 Players?

[Wagon153]

Spartan host is very cheap(Just got a server from them myself), and should do fine for the amount of players you'll have.

 

[Shadowsilver]

Depending on your economy, I'd actually advise to build your own server instead.

I have been on many different hosts the last couple of years, and well. It's either low price with crap service, or high price with good service.
Especially with modpacks, as someone already mentioned, the permgen can need a little fix, but some hosting companies won't put that in for you. with modpacks becoming larger and more resource hungry, i just gave up trying to find hosting for my server, ended up building my own for about 500$/360€. i figured, that in the end it would pay for itself compared to hosting, and i now got a good little server that i can do anything with. Besides from my primary modpack, i run a FTB Unleashed server, a TS server, 2 vanilla servers, and sometimes some pvp maps for events with my community.

Basically, it's a big start up price, but depending on your use it might be able to save you money in the long run, and the liberty you get with it is amazing.

 

[malcontents]

Depending on your economy, I'd actually advise to build your own server instead.

I have been on many different hosts the last couple of years, and well. It's either low price with crap service, or high price with good service.
Especially with modpacks, as someone already mentioned, the permgen can need a little fix, but some hosting companies won't put that in for you. with modpacks becoming larger and more resource hungry, i just gave up trying to find hosting for my server, ended up building my own for about 500$/360€. i figured, that in the end it would pay for itself compared to hosting, and i now got a good little server that i can do anything with. Besides from my primary modpack, i run a FTB Unleashed server, a TS server, 2 vanilla servers, and sometimes some pvp maps for events with my community.

Basically, it's a big start up price, but depending on your use it might be able to save you money in the long run, and the liberty you get with it is amazing.

If you read my original post, I said "I can't leave it up all the time, meaning sometimes when they [my friends] wish to play they can't. Also, it uses extra electricity when I leave it up for extended periods of time, especially when I'm not playing myself."
These reasons, and a few others, are why I am looking for a host, or I would've already built a dedicated server machine.


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[kittle]

If you read my original post, I said "I can't leave it up all the time, meaning sometimes when they [my friends] wish to play they can't. Also, it uses extra electricity when I leave it up for extended periods of time, especially when I'm not playing myself."
These reasons, and a few others, are why I am looking for a host, or I would've already built a dedicated server machine.

If its just pure finances - you can buy a LOT of electricity for $10 a month (unless your power cost per MW are super high).


I understand not being able to keep it on all the time for "various reasons". Some make sense, some do not. I run my PC 24/7 until it gets too hot in the summer, and then the server I host is "down due to heat" until the weather changes

What are these reasons you cant run all the time? maybe we can help you find a way around.

 

[malcontents]

If its just pure finances - you can buy a LOT of electricity for $10 a month (unless your power cost per MW are super high).


I understand not being able to keep it on all the time for "various reasons". Some make sense, some do not. I run my PC 24/7 until it gets too hot in the summer, and then the server I host is "down due to heat" until the weather changes

What are these reasons you cant run all the time? maybe we can help you find a way around.

First of all, thank you everyone for all the responses, they have helped me greatly. The reasons I can't run the server on my desktop 24/7 and am looking for a cheap host:

1. My parents don't want me running my desktop 24/7, as according to them, the electricity bills are pretty high already, and I can't blame them. Although in a few years this won't be an issue (hopefully), right now I'm still living at my parents house (in high school).

2. My home network isn't super quality: While running the server, which involves uploading and downloading to an extent, as expected ping is generally higher, making playing some games harder-impossible. I get 7Mb/s Down but only 1Mb/s Up. Also it's just "another thing" running.

3. I'm broke (xD). With my new desktop newly finished, and a great deal on a drum set, I have no money, and in fact owe some money to my parents due to the great deal on the drum set, as they allowed me to pay them back later.

4. While 3 players are on my server, including myself, and me playing FTB, my CPU temp starts to heat up a bit due to only using the stock cooler on my AMD FX-8350, and the fact that I'm hosting the server and playing on it too. Usually with these conditions my CPU gets to around 52 degrees Celsius, which isn't too hot, but is starting to get on the edge. Also, due to the increased CPU usage, and stock cooler speeding up, my computer becomes pretty loud due to the CPU fan winding up, which gets kind of annoying after a bit. Granted I should just buy a "real" CPU cooler, but again I have no money. I could only really spare the $10 sometime in the future, as my friends would do the actual purchasing and alternate in payments every month.

This is why I am looking for a cheap host, as I don't want to have to keep hosting the server on my desktop. I know that $10/month might not get me the best quality, but unfortunately that is all my friends and I are willing to/can pay.

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[Staxed]

I have some space on one of my servers...check your PMs

 

[DeathOfTime]

I happen to have liked BeastNode...they have wonderful customer service. I even forced a old version of FTB on one of there $5 servers once(chicken server). Crashed whenever I went into the nether though.

Just saying they are really good at communicating with you. 24/7 support, if I remember right. I would still be going through them....I don't play minecraft enough to make it a good investment though.

Just remembered. They will stop your server on a regular basis to do maintenance. I think it was once a month.

You may look into playing on someone elses server too. I know Vortac (youtuber) has a FTB server you can gain access to for a one time donation. Vortac and his goons moderators try real hard to run a great server and aren't to tough on people.