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ya I can agree with that.
xD good luck bro
whats funny bro, if you see kumsufi Public Bandwidth its only 100 Mbit/s unmetered.
Iam running several Contabo servers, if you don't mind they go offline sometimes for an hour or so, you good to go support is not existing, I haven't found a better deal yet, maybe only the $1 IONOS Vps but it's not for Minecraft or gaming
Ovh speeds sucks major even Contabo is better
And why is this a problem?
Do you want to run 20000 players on 32GB server or what?
Minecraft is just sending coordinates of players, their actions and updates blocks within chunks. It eats nothing.
I see
Still it's not 2010 bandwidth should be 1G port especially for such a big company
Example https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/1-gbps-vs-250mpbs.21435/
"On 30mbps i was able to fit 350 players with no connection lag."
"I have 80 players on regularly, we use under 20mpbs at any time."
100Mbps is a lot for game servers. You dont send images, you dont send video, most of the time you dont even have voice chat. Just XYZ coordinates. It's like small text file, its nothing in terms of size.
You will eat 32GB RAM quicker than eat 100Mbps. Don't worry about it. Look at ram and processor with no steal.
CPU steal causes jitter, so players will teleport or miss their shots.
If website is loaded 20ms slower because of steal you won't even notice it. If game has random 20ms lags all the time it makes awful experience.
For websites VPSes are excellent, but for gameservers you always see inconsistent performance, especially with cheap VPSes that are oversold.
Maybe this is something for you:
https://oneprovider.com/configure/dediconf/48
Think this is een online.net server with 1gbit line and dedicated
Did you just recommend Atom CPU + 8GB RAM instead of 3.5x faster Xeon v2 and 32GB of RAM... because it has 1Gbps unmetered?
100Mbit is enough to stream 40x 1080p YouTube videos AT THE SAME TIME, yet you say its not enough for game server that just exchanges coordinates with players.
This Atom CPU will completly fall apart before he would use even 40Mbit in Minecraft.
I dunno what his game requirements are, Iam just talking about the line speed, you can find more deals there with better CPU. 100mbit is not from this time
ah I see, I understand, thanks.
Also I was going through the list and found this, what do you think?
tho its ddr3, I heard ddr3 is wayy worse than ddr4, would it be a problem?
That's awesome deal!
Althrough DDR4 is indeed faster than DDR3... with dedicated server you have all DDR3 bandwidth for yourself, no sharing and with VPS you would share it with other customers that use same physical server.
Because of that DDR4 on VPS is almost always slower than DDR3 on dedicated server.
I see, well what do you think of reselling minecraft hosting with ddr3 dedi? I'm guessing it would be quite slow?
I'm just a bit afraid cuz I don't want it to to suddenly fail on me.
@ArrowBoi
I don't know (nor care) much about game servers but I do know that I don't like relatively new users basically spamming the LET front page with lots of threads that usually treat us LET users as if we existed to serve as your private advisor on whatever happens to cross your mind and to help you out when you're bored.
And I know that I don't like threads like "What do you guys think of [some provider]? when actually you have a more concrete question ("for minecraft") - and I have the feeling that the reason for that is your own questions don't have enough value for you to deserve an adequate title.
Re. you rather mindless question @AXYZE already was kind enough to answer it better than it deserves.
gosh chill out, no need to be rude.
Why would people not do this themselves ? I don't see any business model in what you suggest.
Hey sorry I don't understand your question, can you rephrase? thank you.
Why would people not setup Minecraft server themselves ?
so you're asking why people won't buy a dedicated server themselfs and setup a minecraft server?
well first thing is people do not know how to, many people buy servers to host a multiplayer vanilla server to play with their friends, and some people might just not want to go through all the hassle of setting up a dedicated server before working on their minecraft server.
Its kinda like we're making it ready for them and we'd be providing a proper panel for them aka pterodactyl.io and all they'd do is pay some money and get a ready made minecraft server and they can easily get started.
This is useful for people who have not dealt with dedicated servers and vps before.
And ya ofc no one can stop experienced people from buying a dedi themselfs to host their minecraft server if they know how to, I myself bought a vps from advinservers 2-3 months ago to host my minecraft server and have been using it till the present.
You are answering the question yourself it's very easy to set this up yourself even in the Hetzner knowledgebase there is guide to set this up in easy steps: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/make-a-minecraft-server/
its not easy to setup, a single mistake while installing pterodactyl.io by an inexperienced user can result in needing to reinstall the vps.
Its really more of an option for people who don't want to go through all the hastle of setting up a server also the tutorial you linked seems to be somewhat like a direct minecraft server working in the dedicated server, thats not a good idea for newbies with no idea. They can either pay someone to install pterodactyl for them or just buy a direct game server.
the audience for the market is just completely different, I'd be targetting people who just want a direct game server to work on instead of going through all the hastle and maybe sometimes even to save money as ddos protected dedicated servers are always priced high afaik and it'd be better if people could just spend their money on a 1$/gb host that takes care of ddos protection for them. Who knows, I might decide to sell vps later if I do start this hosting project and I could cover that audience too
Also @WhiteRoseG
you can take a look at the pterodactyl installation docs, its pretty lengthy and mistakes can be easily made by people who haven't done it before
https://pterodactyl.io/project/introduction.html
Thats why its recommended to get an sys admin if operating on a vps with no experience which I'm currently doing (I have little knowledge as I've played aroun with a vps before), the vps I talked about is managed by my friend whose an sys admin. If I was alone I wouldn't even have bought a vps to begin with as its hard to manage it alone with no experience while game servers won't be that hard to handle as there's always a support staff of that particular host that can help the user with whatever the issue they're facing easily.
Thats why many hosts use pterodactyl.io, its the best panel solution for Minecraft servers.
If you still think there's no market for this I cannot say anything else as I partially agree with you regarding people just buying a vps/dedi themselves as they'd have more power with it as they could use it for multiple purposes besides running a Minecraft server.
But overall direct game hosting audience would be people who are just getting started with minecraft servers or do not wish to go through all the trouble of setting up a vps.
There can be security issues and such which normal people wouldn't know, I had to go through 1-2 videos to learn to disable root login and user login and setup firewall and etc and make it work only with a ssh key, I later got it done completely with the help of my sys admin friend.
Based on your described experience, I would highly recommend gaining a lot more sysadmin knowledge before starting up your own game server hosting business
Being on Contabo for a year, I'm about to switch. CPU power was fine until some two months ago. Tried to update to a bigger spec, no improvement.
CPU steal issues?
I have an sys admin also yes I do plan on gaining some knowledge but I have an sys admin who can do most of the work.
which company do you plan on switching to?
The price is cheap and the quality is also "cheap"
I tried them a few months ago and quickly moved my website to another host