Server Hosting Price?

[Sylian]

So, I have been thinking a lot lately.
How much does it even cost to host a private server for WoW?
I am not talking about an insanely big one, probably one that, at the maximum, can handle 1K players at once.

 

[PrivateDonut]

It wouldn't be very much these days, hosting is insanely cheap compared to 5-10 years ago. You can easily get a good enough server to host up to 1,000 players for less then $75/month depending on where you order from. But you can go cheaper then that, and just expand as you need. You can easily get a server up and going for as little as $10 a month, if you're comfortable running Linux. No need to over pay early on, when you can easily expand when needed.

 

[splicho]

It wouldn't be very much these days, hosting is insanely cheap compared to 5-10 years ago. You can easily get a good enough server to host up to 1,000 players for less then $75/month depending on where you order from. But you can go cheaper then that, and just expand as you need. You can easily get a server up and going for as little as $10 a month, if you're comfortable running Linux. No need to over pay early on, when you can easily expand when needed.

Yes, can't add anything more to that.

 

[Sylian]

It wouldn't be very much these days, hosting is insanely cheap compared to 5-10 years ago. You can easily get a good enough server to host up to 1,000 players for less then $75/month depending on where you order from. But you can go cheaper then that, and just expand as you need. You can easily get a server up and going for as little as $10 a month, if you're comfortable running Linux. No need to over pay early on, when you can easily expand when needed.

That is insanely cheap!
I thought it would be 100€+ for a small server to be good enough to run with 1k+ people.

Do you have any good hosting providers?

 

[splicho]

That is insanely cheap!
I thought it would be 100€+ for a small server to be good enough to run with 1k+ people.

Do you have any good hosting providers?

I personally recommend OVH Cloud. Take a look on their kimsufi eco dedicated servers.

https://eco.ovhcloud.com/

Pretty good price/value ratio for starters.

 

[PrivateDonut]

I personally recommend OVH Cloud. Take a look on their kimsufi eco dedicated servers.

https://eco.ovhcloud.com/

Pretty good price/value ratio for starters.

i have a few providers I’d recommend, their services are great for the price you’re paying. They are considered budget providers, but a great starting point

OVHcloud

OVHcloud offers more than 80 open and reversible services with the best price-performance ratio, including domain names, VPS, dedicated servers, IaaS and PaaS cloud.

www.ovhcloud.com

Cheap dedicated servers, cloud & hosting from Germany

Cheap hosting solutions, dedicated servers and cloud services at Hetzner ✓ GDPR-compliant ✓ affordable prices ✓ 100% green energy

www.hetzner.com

https://contabo.com/en/ (real budget provider, but they’re cheap and a great starting host and expand later on to avoid wasting to much money)

On my phone right now, but I have a few more I can also recommend.

 

[Sylian]

I personally recommend OVH Cloud. Take a look on their kimsufi eco dedicated servers.

https://eco.ovhcloud.com/

Pretty good price/value ratio for starters.

Yeah, those are pretty cheap, but wont there be a problem with Blizz?

Or are these servers in the countries where Blizz can't do shit?

 

[Sylian]

i have a few providers I’d recommend, their services are great for the price you’re paying. They are considered budget providers, but a great starting point

OVHcloud

OVHcloud offers more than 80 open and reversible services with the best price-performance ratio, including domain names, VPS, dedicated servers, IaaS and PaaS cloud.

www.ovhcloud.com

Cheap dedicated servers, cloud & hosting from Germany

Cheap hosting solutions, dedicated servers and cloud services at Hetzner ✓ GDPR-compliant ✓ affordable prices ✓ 100% green energy

www.hetzner.com

https://contabo.com/en/ (real budget provider, but they’re cheap and a great starting host and expand later on to avoid wasting to much money)

On my phone right now, but I have a few more I can also recommend.

Thank you for the links!
I will look into those, but as I asked Splicho, are there any problems with Blizz if you host on any of these host providers?

 

[splicho]

Yeah, those are pretty cheap, but wont there be a problem with Blizz?

Or are these servers in the countries where Blizz can't do shit?

If you care about blizz probably eye balling your server, then just go with a russian host/offshore.
But honestly, I doubt blizz would do anything unless you have thousands of players and huge influence, e.x https://en.nostalrius.org/

 

[PrivateDonut]

That is insanely cheap!
I thought it would be 100€+ for a small server to be good enough to run with 1k+ people.

Do you have any good hosting providers?

Thank you for the links!
I will look into those, but as I asked Splicho, are there any problems with Blizz if you host on any of these host providers?

There is always a risk, but people have ran servers for 5-10+ years with no problems using these providers. Unless your server gets insanely popular, your chances are far to low to even consider it in my opinion.

However, I have and many other people in wow emulation has used these providers to host their servers with no problems for many years.