After recent news about our former host going out of business, we had to scramble to find a new host and get everything up and running in a week's time.
Our previous host was your typical Minecraft server host, giving us FTP and Multicraft access. It was fine and all, and to be honest, he was VERY responsive, communicated with us, and kept things worth our time and money. But... we did want more room to grow and a little more control over the server (multicraft is bleh for FTB).
So, we took the opportunity to just dive into the deep end and snatched up a server space with OVH.
You are correct that it requires more work on our end because no one is there to hold our hands while setting things up.
Fortunately, our staff has enough combined knowledge of working with Linux, SSH, VNC, etc etc that it was only a matter of hours from the time we purchased the server until we had files transferring from our old server to the new one. In fact, we already have one of our servers online and ready to accept players again.
I think for any larger server community that plans on running not only FTB but perhaps also a bukkit hub, renting an empty box is cheaper and gives you much more control over RAM allocation and whatnot.
It can be risky, however, if you don't know what you're doing.
And, OP, thanks for the recommendation with OVH. They look pretty damn solid and worth the money. $80/month for 32GB of RAM that we can allocate however we please is pretty hard to beat. And they aren't just some small company ran out of a garage, either. We are probably gonna stick with this company, and buy additional boxes in the future if we outgrow what we have now.
TL;DR If you know how to setup servers on a remote server, use an empty box such as OVH. If you are new to servers, period, go with a host that specializes in Minecraft servers.
Our previous host was your typical Minecraft server host, giving us FTP and Multicraft access. It was fine and all, and to be honest, he was VERY responsive, communicated with us, and kept things worth our time and money. But... we did want more room to grow and a little more control over the server (multicraft is bleh for FTB).
So, we took the opportunity to just dive into the deep end and snatched up a server space with OVH.
You are correct that it requires more work on our end because no one is there to hold our hands while setting things up.
Fortunately, our staff has enough combined knowledge of working with Linux, SSH, VNC, etc etc that it was only a matter of hours from the time we purchased the server until we had files transferring from our old server to the new one. In fact, we already have one of our servers online and ready to accept players again.
I think for any larger server community that plans on running not only FTB but perhaps also a bukkit hub, renting an empty box is cheaper and gives you much more control over RAM allocation and whatnot.
It can be risky, however, if you don't know what you're doing.
And, OP, thanks for the recommendation with OVH. They look pretty damn solid and worth the money. $80/month for 32GB of RAM that we can allocate however we please is pretty hard to beat. And they aren't just some small company ran out of a garage, either. We are probably gonna stick with this company, and buy additional boxes in the future if we outgrow what we have now.
TL;DR If you know how to setup servers on a remote server, use an empty box such as OVH. If you are new to servers, period, go with a host that specializes in Minecraft servers.
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