Server Hosting.
I am looking for advice around hosting services, I have been using pebblehost with no issues but I am considering alternatives coming up to renewal. I would host it myself but my current situation does not allow for it.
PLEB
Maximum of 20 players usually lower.
Currently pay about £150 annually roughly $190 annually but I'm flexible if it's worth the increased payment.
Java edition, currently paper but looking at changing to fabric.
Based in the UK primarily but have a few players in various European countries.
Below are some I have found during my own research. Any insight would be helpful.
Commonly recommended in other question threads here, not heard of these previously but all are transparent with their specifications.
Bloom
Pufferfish
Lillypad
Servcity - doesn't show location prior to checkout assuming one location based on the website.
Also mentioned but not as commonly.
Enviro
Berrybyte
Prism
Sparked
Pebblehost - Used myself and had positive experiences.
I have also looked into common recommendations on Google and Reddit and the list on the subreddit but I have found it difficult to determine which ones are worthwhile.
Apologies if this is a common question which I've missed the answer to and thanks in advance for any information provided.
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Im going to be brutally honest, your own research is going to be more valuable than half the answers you will recieve, lots of the people who respond to this thread will have some biased to a company for 1 reason or another.
Pebble is the best one to stay with in your current situation
Although a question does have to be asked here:
why are you paying $190 for 20 players?
Was just the cost at the time, think the current spec is premium 6GB, some players contributed to increase the specs
Annually
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Appreciate the sentiment, of course I'm doing my own research, just looking for opinions or experiences to back up the findings.
Well as i previously mentioned, alot of people will have a bias, (so do i) which is why im going to recommend servcity lol
Craftlands vouch! (with massive bias) they are good tho, affordable low downtimes and great support!
I should probs provide reasoning aswell:
Pebble is $13.50/month for 6gigs 3 threads on a 7900
Servcity is $9.35/month for 6gigs 3 threads on a 7950x
I noticed that, it does seem more cost effective, although I can't see the location of their servers on their website.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pebble is the best for the uk as they own the hardware there
Serverv City is in ther netherlands from memory is decent for player base but still not good slightly more cost effective
Bloom is also a good option but not ideal for your player base location
Pufferfish is good but not ideal for your player base location also
Lillypad Is more expensive but have a uk location
for reference here would be craftlands pricing (one of the premium nodes is actually a 7950x3d appearently)
serv also owns all hardware!!
Some of the player base is located close in the Nordics and some of Europe, moving the location to the Netherlands would make the experience better for them right?
it kinda depends a lot of the time but it would definetly even out the ping
Netherlands is a good central location for europe, its ~25ms to uk depending on your ISP
Yeah it would but you said most of your players were based in the uk so thats the location I assumed you would want but ping between Amsterdam and UK is 8-20ms depending on where you are in the uk
https://wondernetwork.com/pings/London/Amsterdam
Players are South England based so Ping to Amsterdam is good enough.
Will do some research into this one.
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That panel uptime on craftlands isnt very great
personally not noticed that (like fr)
the pricing is... ok ig, nothing to brag about but ive never heard of them so i cant really give you my input
there was a bit of maintenance recently but thats it from what i know
Netherlands is a pretty good option in my opinion it has really good ping to the rest of EU
But uk is also perfectly fine
Also despite my bias to servcity, i will warn you, our support can be a little slow at times, but you will get a response within 24 hours
Dont you do Craftlands Socials ?
I do yes, thats why I said i have bias lol
Uptime on general nodes is also a bit weird, all of their eu started in november at the oldest which isnt exactly a long time
I personally have not experienced any downtime tho
uh oh, summerhost
And already have 99.9965 etc
yea thats true idk what dadone is doing
like i said I havent experienced any myself but i do also have bias
Are you eu aswell?
mhm
Ok I think I am going to minimod and stop this here this is not helpful to the question and we should not be providing insight on hosts in the first place keep it to the list they mentioned at the start
Maybe take a look at UltraServers ?
I'd found it to be pretty affordable with user who moved from Bloom(or else).
You got a pretty well-researched list with pretty good hosts, and it's the best when you know about many of them and how is the quality of each
I'll add it to the list to research, thank you.
I would stay away from Enviro, I had a terrible experience with them. Lots of downtime with no staff acknowledging it or responding. I'm currently with Blooms premium+ and haven't had a single issue yet!
Thank you for the feedback.
I have looked at Bloom but it looks that the price is higher with slightly lower specs than my current provider,
For comparison
$18 Pebble 8GB and 4 threads Ryzen 7900
$18 Bloom 8GB and 2 threads Ryzen 3950X.
Actually Bloom has 2 dedicated cores and 4 threads. although I don't think that makes a huge difference in my case.
dedicated logical cores are dedicated threads
its the actual name for "threads"
Threads and cores are different no, a 2 core 4 thread cpu has two cores with two threads each, or does that not apply here?
Logical cores and physical cores are different
logical cores are threads
Ah I see, so my original assesment was correct
well no, you still only get 2 threads on the 8 gb plan
yeah that was my original statement $18 Bloom 8GB and 2 threads Ryzen 3950X.
ah in that sense yeah
misunderstood
no prob, you've been very helpful thank you
So I think I will be trialling Servcity to see how they perform and if they don't hold up I'll be sticking with Pebble,
Thank you all for your suggestions and biases XD
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