Server hosts & A host review.

[Redruzerkruzer]

Hello ladies and gents.

I am a proud owner of a fairly nice sized and fully dedicated community. With this, i am always looking for better and greater hosts. Companies that can offer me more for cheaper, without sacrificing quality and support. I would love to know, who is your host? Do you know of anyone that i may be able to rent from that better then my host?

A review on my host, OVH.

I have been with OVH for roughly 4 months. During this time i have bought 3 servers from them, got rid of 1 due to it not having SSDs. Throughout the lifetime of these servers, it has had 3 crashes. 1 was a simple freeze which was fixed within 10 minutes. 2 were problems with the power supply. Shit happens, but they had my servers fixed and running as smooth as a polished rock within 30 minutes each time. With no loss to data or performance (Of course). During those 3 times, i received multiple emails notifying me of the status of my servers, and what was happening to them.

Support is amazing, performance/quality is true. Bandwidth and their promises are also true. Their DDoS protection is amazing too. I was DDoSed @ 25GB/s for over 10 minutes, ping went up by about 15, then stabilized after the first minute.

http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/sys-e32-4.xml This is what i am renting. Own 2 of them atm.

 

[Shevron]

I have found Fragnet to be the best host I ever came across.

 

[SHOT2THEJAW]

I use iPlexHost. They have great customer service, unbeatable prices, and top of the line specs.
http://www.iplexhost.com/plans.html

EDIT: I cannot recommend these guys anymore. Lately, the service has been very poor and they have hardware issues often. They are also putting a 900mb space limit per GB of ram on disk space and anything over that costs, that is not good for an FTB server at all. So I have moved to So You Start.

~Shot

 

[HaoSs]

never trusted hosts who think more ram = more slots. I have my own dedicated servers

 

[Harvest88]

never trusted hosts who think more ram = more slots. I have my own dedicated servers

Those are only recommendations but yes they are usually well way off, surely for marketing purposes. When I open up my, I am going to offer 5 days free trials depending on what the customer is going to do with it. That will voids out confusions of slot counts and shows the customer what they can actually do with xGB and other resources such as CPU however E3 1230v3 should do the trick for most if not all Minecraft servers.

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

It always seems that minecraft hosts cost 4/5x that of a dedicated server. Managed is nice, but i can't believe how some people are paying 250$ a month for something i am running, costing me 59$ a month.

That will voids out confusions of slot counts and shows the customer what they can actually do with xGB and other resources such as CPU however E3 1230v3 should do the trick for most if not all Minecraft servers.

Sounds like a very good idea. A lot of hosts never seem to put effort like that in. Hope you do well.

 

[Connor Gavitt]

I use mcmyhost.net they are fairly new but I have been with them for almost 5 months renting a i7 3930k overclocked to 4.3ghz I just love how the slap intreppid across the face considering I'm paying only a quarter of what intreppid charges for worse servers

 

[Harvest88]

It always seems that minecraft hosts cost 4/5x that of a dedicated server. Managed is nice, but i can't believe how some people are paying 250$ a month for something i am running, costing me 59$ a month.



Sounds like a very good idea. A lot of hosts never seem to put effort like that in. Hope you do well.

Why thanks you and yes that is dumb how expensive "managed" services are even though they aren't really managed. They say craps like "we will do everything!" or "any issues will be fixed" but guess what usually happens?.. I won't be overselling support like that or even say it's 24/7 since no host legitimately give you 24/7 support. (they "may" be staffed 24/7 but you won't get an instant support response or even the "promised" response time.)

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

No host gives you legitimate 24/7 support? It really depends on the host. I know with OVH, during the busy hours i can mail them and expect a response within 30 minutes. Or during the middle of the night, it is usually 10 minutes. It really depends on who you are dealing with. I have found through my searches that a lot of minecraft hosts generally have hours. Such as 9am to 7pm Monday to Saturday PCT. Good idea, but if you want to be above the rest, i would recommend having a "set" time that your customers will get a response in, and keep to that. Would certainly give you a one-up above a lot of others.

 

[atomicgermx69]

I currently have a 10 gb server with Astral games servers for 3 months now there support is bad my server been down for 14 hours and it appears they now do no support on weekends ........ now looking for new home any suggestion

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

Try some of the hosts people have mentioned above. It depends on personal preference too. You could go managed and pay (Usually, not always) insane prices. Or you could go dedicated and get some real power for your server, it just requires time and a lot of learning curves.

 

[HaoSs]

well .if you really need a host. search for one that provide support for moded MC. Most of minecraft host dont even tell you what CPU they use. and its important, more important then the 20tb of ram they give you.

 

[Harvest88]

well .if you really need a host. search for one that provide support for moded MC. Most of minecraft host dont even tell you what CPU they use. and its important, more important then the 20tb of ram they give you.

Or.. they say things like "we use the "latest" E3 CPUs" or like this "we use x and y CPUs". The customer should be informed up front what machine he/she is going to put on. The reason they do this crap is that they want to cheat their customers for money.

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

If you find a host you really like, i suggest sending them a mail asking for information, such as what CPU and other key information point. It is a good way to test their support system too.

 

[IBeRamen]

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[Redruzerkruzer]

Did a price check. It would cost me 285$ a month to rent through you guys, with the same specs as my current server. Yet I pay 59$ a month for the same thing from my host. Only downside to my host is I cannot buy extra IPv4s.

That is a whopping 226$ a month difference.

 

[Harvest88]

Hey,
We are currently also having a promotion, if you would like a full custom dedicated server there are a promotion running until the 31st of March 2014 where if you buy any dedicated server configuration, you pay for the first month, and you will get the second month completely free. If you want to stay with us even after the promotion, your service will continue with a 15% off for life on the service (This requires you to open a ticket so that we can update your pricing!).

Wow but who's cares. it "only" costs well over $250 for my preferred machine specs and you don't even have 1TB SSDs that I could have ready to upgrade to should my customer(s) need serious disk space.

Did a price check. It would cost me 285$ a month to run my server through you guys. Yet I pay 59$ a month for the same thing from my host. Only downside to my host is I cannot buy extra IPv4s.

Told you.

 

[psp]

I use mcmyhost.net they are fairly nreew but I have been with them for almost 5 months renting a i7 3930k overclocked to 4.3ghz I just love how the slap intreppid across the face considering I'm paying only a quarter of what intreppid charges for worse servers

Intreppid is better though?

 

[MrBrunty]

Try some of the hosts people have mentioned above. It depends on personal preference too. You could go managed and pay (Usually, not always) insane prices. Or you could go dedicated and get some real power for your server, it just requires time and a lot of learning curves.

To be honest, people always say its a massive learning curve but its really not, all you really need to do is install java and your good to go thats a bit of a pain with ubuntu now because they don't support java 7 apt-get install (very annoying) but use centos and its literally yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk (obviously sub in whatever java version you want) Then you just need to learn that typing 'screen' makes a screen, typing screen -x joins that screen and putting a ./ before the start command runs it Everything else can be done through ftp if your not confident with ssh and everything ssh is on the web and relatively easy to find You can even cheat and put in screen -dmS server before the start command (same line) and it will even open up the screen for you both on starts and on restarts through crash and automated (if you have that kind of thing on your server). All in all, ssh on a dedicated box is possibly easier than using something like multicraft xD not to mention how much better it is.

 

[Redruzerkruzer]

Learning curve for a lot of people, but not all. I know that with my server a few optimizations have gone into it to give us even better performance. But all in all, the information is all available on the interwebs. Just need to go out and find it.