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Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out new hacks for cooking, cleaning and tinkering with all of the gadgets and appliances in your house. Alison was previously an editor at TechRepublic.
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Minecraft is one of the most popular video games in the world, with millions of players building worlds and digging deeper and deeper into mines. If you want your living world in Minecraft, which your friends can join even when you’re not online, hosting a dedicated Minecraft server is the way to do that.
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MCProHosting offers nine Minecraft server host plans, ranging from $7 a month for 1GB RAM and 25 player slots, to $75 a month for 32GB RAM and unlimited player slots. Every plan includes unlimited storage space, worldwide server locations and DDoS protection.
A big benefit of MCProHosting: You can try out its “Villager” plan free for seven days, or the step-up “Witch” plan for just $1 for the first month.
MCProHosting has an A- rating from the BBB, and a TrustPilot rating of 4.8 out of 5 with more than 5,000 reviews.
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- Minecraft server hosting starts at $2.50 a month
Shockbyte is a game server provider, offering 12 different Minecraft server hosting plan options, along with the ability to design a custom plan. Options range from $2.50 a month for 1GB RAM and 20 slots (the number of spaces on a game server available to players) to $40 a month for 16GB RAM and unlimited player slots. All plans include 100% uptime, DDoS protection, instant setup and a free subdomain name.
Shockbyte is based in Australia, so it does not have a BBB page. It does have a TrustPilot rating of 4.7 out of 5 with more than 7,000 reviews.
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GGServers offers ten different Minecraft server hosting plans, each of which comes with the option for standard or premium (which doubles the price).
Standard plans offer DDR4 2133 MHz RAM, 3.2-4GHz CPU, and 400MBps read/write SSD. It also costs an extra $2 a month to add on a MySQL database, or unlimited slots. You don’t get access to all nine server locations, either. Premium plans offer DDR4 2400 MHz RAM, 4.4-5GHz CPU, 2,500-plus MBps read/write SSD, and include the MySQL database, unlimited slots and all nine server locations worldwide. Both plan types include a free subdomain, DDoS protection and instant activation. Standard plans range from $3 a month for 1,024MB RAM and 12 player slots standard (or $6 a month premium) to $96 a month for 32,768MB RAM standard (or $192 a month premium).
GGServers is based in Canada and does not have a BBB page but it does have a TrustPilot rating of 4.4 out of 5 with more than 3,000 reviews.
