PebbleHost - ⭐⭐⭐
Directed by the brilliant chap Daniel Jackson, PebbleHost has been the main go to hosting provider for the UK, based in Coventry, servicing Minecraft, game servers in general and dedicated servers. Being based in the UK means it's central to most of the world and means your players won't have much issue with ping connections, averaging out reasonably well.
Jasmeow.Systems, it's many operations and Jasmine's personal systems are hosted by PebbleHost using a dedicated system. We have had our system since April, being a reliable place to manage our infrastructure.
Pros
- The Minecraft hosting is decent for the initial start up of your server while you evaluate your choices on which dedicated system you are going to purchase from a provider.
- Their support is extremely willing to help and friendly for all of their services, knowing how hard it is to run your server for the first time and can help out when you need it most.
- They provide software support, within reason, for your server, such as plugins or solving lag spikes. Alternatively, they support installing Pterodactyl on your dedicated system for example.
Cons
- Due to it being a shared host, you will have performance hits with managing a large server on their shared MC hosting once you go above 50 players, so be reasonable and work out when you want to switch.
- Pricing for the dedicated serves can be expensive and what they actually offer in terms of hardware. Unfortunately, this is mostly due to our 20% Value Added Tax in the UK and how they get up-sold to you as a customer.
Unfortunately being marked down a star due to not having staff available on the weekend my dedicated system went down and hardware faulted. You should always have staff available on the weekend for a dedicated business, no matter how large you are, you earn enough financially ill tell you that much. You could even do staff shifts for one off day, like Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Sunday, etc. One of the teams responses has also been subpar at best.
