From Minecraft LAN servers to building GSH
It started with Minecraft and Hamachi — setting up LAN servers with friends to avoid paying for a rental. Those were the days. As I got older I moved to professional providers and quickly discovered that most were either overpriced, undersupported, or both.
At the time I had no idea what hardware actually mattered or how to tell a good host from a bad one. Years of hosting servers for ARK, Valheim, Sons of the Forest, V Rising and more changed that. I’ve been burned by laggy providers and I’ve found the ones that genuinely deliver.
That experience is what drives every ranking on this site. No inflated scores. Just real price-to-performance comparisons, built from each provider’s live prices, hardware specs and refund terms. Here is exactly how we compare game server hosts.
I’ve been hosting my own game servers since Minecraft first came out, from Hamachi LAN nights with friends to modded survival worlds and dedicated servers for ARK, Valheim and Palworld. Years of running, breaking and fixing servers taught me what actually makes a host worth paying for, and that’s what I share here.
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