PingBazaar is a reseller marketplace where independent 'partner' operators list game server slots at prices starting near $2.50 per GB of RAM. Customers buy through one storefront and panel but land on whichever partner has capacity, with performance, backup policy and attack mitigation varying by partner. Promotional first-term pricing is aggressive and renewal rates are substantially higher.
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Ran okay for two months with six friends. Then someone in our Discord got angry and hit the IP and we were offline for most of a weekend. The 'DDoS protection' on the plan page seems to mean they null-route you until the attacker gets bored. Their support Discord was mostly other customers asking the same question.
An 8GB plan on a node that was obviously running dozens of other servers. TPS sat at 11 with nine players on a nearly vanilla world. Opened a ticket, got a canned reply about optimising my plugins four days later. My refund request was ignored entirely until I did a chargeback, which finally got someone's attention.
Two servers on the same plan: one is perfectly usable, the other is a slideshow, and there is no information anywhere about which partner you land on or how to move. Thats not hosting, thats a lottery with a checkout page.
It's three dollars, I knew roughly what I was buying. Still, the node rebooted six times in one week and there were no backups despite the plan page listing daily backups - apparently that's 'partner dependent', which is a phrase you only learn after you need it. The panel itself is fine, it's everything behind the panel that isn't.
Signed up on a promo, renewed at 3.4x the intro rate with no warning email, and the cancel button opens a ticket form instead of actually cancelling anything. The server itself was mediocre but survivable. It's the commercial side I'd warn people about more than the hosting.
Ran okay for two months with six friends. Then someone in our Discord got angry and hit the IP and we were offline for most of a weekend. The 'DDoS protection' on the plan page seems to mean they null-route you until the attacker gets bored. Their support Discord was mostly other customers asking the same question.
An 8GB plan on a node that was obviously running dozens of other servers. TPS sat at 11 with nine players on a nearly vanilla world. Opened a ticket, got a canned reply about optimising my plugins four days later. My refund request was ignored entirely until I did a chargeback, which finally got someone's attention.
Two servers on the same plan: one is perfectly usable, the other is a slideshow, and there is no information anywhere about which partner you land on or how to move. Thats not hosting, thats a lottery with a checkout page.
It's three dollars, I knew roughly what I was buying. Still, the node rebooted six times in one week and there were no backups despite the plan page listing daily backups - apparently that's 'partner dependent', which is a phrase you only learn after you need it. The panel itself is fine, it's everything behind the panel that isn't.
Signed up on a promo, renewed at 3.4x the intro rate with no warning email, and the cancel button opens a ticket form instead of actually cancelling anything. The server itself was mediocre but survivable. It's the commercial side I'd warn people about more than the hosting.
Four of us, vanilla, 2GB, $2.50 a month. It's been up since January with maybe two hours of downtime total and the one time I needed help they answered within a day. I would absolutely not run a public community on this, but for a friends server it does the job it says on the tin.