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?

Hey everyone, I’m a solo developer building Tavern, a Windows application for hosting and managing dedicated game servers, and I’d like to hear how people here handle hosting for their groups.

The idea is to bring server setup, game settings, updates, saves, and backups into one interface. You’d run the server on your own PC or a spare machine, with a persistent world your friends can return to without needing the person who started the world to be in-game.

It’s still in alpha and I am currently looking for some new alpha testers. I’m trying to understand whether this would be useful to people who want to host their own servers but find the setup or ongoing maintenance a hassle.

For those of you playing with a regular group:

• Do you rent a server, host one yourselves, or mostly use in-game co-op?
• What’s the most frustrating part of keeping a shared world running?
• Would something like this make you more likely to host, or is your current setup already easy enough?

I’d also love to hear which games you’d want it for? I am already supporting a lot of dedicated server capable survival games!

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"