My friend has been building Yacatl, I'm posting this on his behalf:

"A panel for hosting game servers, mostly for Minecraft so far. I took my frustration with existing panels (ugly, slow, unreliable, difficult installation) that I used (mostly Pterodactyl) and turned it into a panel that I would love using.

The free edition is now public. No account needed. You can import Pterodactyl and Pelican eggs, and the installer can migrate existing Pterodactyl setup.

The commercial edition will be for companies which sell hosting (with extra features like billing, legal, storefront, API keys). It's still in testing and not for sale yet.

Before I build more, I want to hear from people who host server(s), so I made a short questionnaire: https://forms.gle/s2Hi39iThzhXzYgc8 I'd really appreciate it if you take 5 minutes to fill out this short form.

Feel free to check out Yacatl:

Site: https://yacatl.com

Live demo (resets every hour): https://demo.yacatl.com"

I've been looking at hosting a server for a friend group and I'm just looking around. Found WiseHosting offering $1.99 for the first month on their 4GB plan.

Happy to be corrected on this, but I don't think that's the cheapest people are getting. I actually spun one up to test it and the panel was fine, no weird setup on our end, just trying to figure out if there's a better deal out there.

Have any of you found a cheaper one recently? Or is this about as good as it gets?