Minecraft Server Hosting is a SCAM

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• IO

  @Iord · 1 year ago

  delete honey

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• MG

  @mgmgprndev · 1 year ago (edited)

  Yesterday, I found Minecraft Hosting that $96 monthly for 32 GB of RAM with 10GB SSD. <br>(There are Cloud company offer 1TB SSD with 32 GB RAM and AMD CPU for just $90 monthly! so $96 monthly for just 32GB RAM &amp; 10GB SSD are crazy expensive)<br><br>I won&apos;t mention to their names, but Yes! some company doing a scam. <br><br>Mostly Minecraft Hosting Products are overpriced, I think this is because their target customers are kids. <br>Because most kids have no knowledge to setup Minecraft Server with VPS or in local machine to publish to internet.<br>Kids mostly didn&apos;t know Fair Price for that spec and service. <br>When I was kid I was same. so yeah. simple answer. DO not buy Minecraft Hosting.

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• GA

  @galaxybolt1 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve always thought this, but I never had any platform to voice it.<br><br>I see servers like 0.5GB RAM 2GB world file $8/month<br>what??? like what the hell?! I&apos;d rather run it on a Dell Optiplex and do some file managing over a week of fixing bugs and issues and downloading patches myself every few days

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• WA

  @Walter_ · 1 year ago

  Download videos instead of continuously paying a streaming subscription,<br><br>Download music instead of continuously paying a music subscription<br><br>Run your own self-hosted server software instead of paying for subscriptions.<br><br>It&apos;s a headache at the start, but if you can resist the urge of scrolling to the next tiktok video for like 7 days, then you barely have to think/worry about surprises again.<br><br>Im doing all of the above mentioned things and i&apos;m basically watching all these &quot;extortion&quot; and bad business practices unfold in the news as i eat popcorn, instead of experiencing it first-hand.

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• SN

  @snarkyalyx · 1 year ago

  All server hosting is basically a scam because they just resell AWS at 2000% profit margin

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• MA

  @Marfprojects · 1 year ago (edited)

  I&apos;ve been hosting minecraft servers myself since 2011. <br>A friend of mine had a host at creeper host and even a Intel core 2 duo E4300 was FASTER then the host he used.<br>Then later I was a member of the admin team for Xisuma and The hermitcraft server.<br>The trouble was with Hermitcraft is that it used one of those hosting companies with the same problem and a lot of lag. then they decided to do the same infrastructure as we have for Xisuma&apos;s patreon servers, which is get a dedicated box, set it up yourself but this requires Linux knowledge. and this was a day and night difference for the Hermits.<br><br>The big gotcha with those &quot;&quot;&quot;Server hosts&quot;&quot;&quot; is that they give you shared CPU cores from a badly performing xeon cpu with alot of cores, and you share cores with other people, so if a person is also making a lagg machine on their server, it even might lagg out your server as well, if they didnt configure CPU pinning (most dont) correctly.

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• NA

  @navoei · 1 year ago (edited)

  As a server owner myself, I can tell you that this is why self hosting is the best option for minecraft servers (if you are not hosting a large network). You get all the ports and full control of the hardware. If you have a decent enough pc or even a laptop and understand Linux, you can host a minecraft server long term. Most computers come with 16GB of ram, a modest amount of storage, and a decent enough CPU. All you would really need beyond that is good enough internet and DDOS protection. Depending on your needs you can rent a VPS (with DDOS protection) to act as a reverse proxy for as little as 7 to 15 USD a month. <br>A lot of servers these days are pay to win because server hosting companies charge large sums of money.

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• AL

  @alice20001 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTHi3EBMMM&amp;t=180">3:00</a> be like: Sorry mate, you’ve already used 1.88 GB of your unlimited storage. Please subscribe for the unlimited + for an extra gigabyte of storage.<br><br>That’s just extortionate 😢

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• KA

  @kajik007 · 1 year ago

  After switching from hosting to selfhosted server and port forwarding i must say it&apos;s a night and day difference

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• KO

  @Koko_2110 · 1 year ago

  Real veterans grew up setting up their own Hamachi rooms cause they could never get port forwarding right when hosting their own servers. Our moms sure as hell weren&apos;t paying a monthly fee for a Minecraft server, we had to figure that out ourselves.

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• HA

  @hariranormal5584 · 1 year ago

  if you&apos;re in the community, this has been around for ages. Many hosts legit come by a certain month and die within a few, we even call them &quot;summerhosts&quot;<br><br>The ones which do run without dying often, yeah they play these tricks. <br><br>It didn&apos;t take me long enough but I legit started handing off free ways to host servers for random people online (risky, but I think it&apos;s good experience even if I get haxxored) just so they can avoid their one sale with a dumb hosting company

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• LA

  @lawsen3719 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Shoutout to Aternos though. I used to host SMPs before they were popular thing on YouTube, 5-6 players friends mostly my friends or friends of friends. Some of the most fun I&apos;ve had playing minecraft and it was all for free.<br><br>We weren&apos;t getting so much lag, but we were playing on Paper then switched to Fabric with Serverside performance mods once it became popular.<br><br>Aternos also doesn&apos;t have that backup problem because they would backup files to your google drive and as long as you had enough space then you were fine.

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