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So you’re shopping for a Minecraft host…
Cool. Let me save you ten tabs and three headaches. I’m going to tell you exactly what happens when you hit “checkout” with ExpHost, and what you’ll probably be kicking yourself about if you go somewhere like Apex.
1. The hardware you’ll actually play on
With us you’re getting Ryzen 9 7950X3D chips (and the 9950X if you feel fancy). They’re stupid-fast, DDR5 RAM, NVMe storage that laughs at chunk loading. Apex? Still rocking last-gen Ryzen 7 5800X and DDR4. Noticeable? Only if you like TPS that doesn’t dip every time someone fires up a flying machine.
2. Money talk
Our plans start at £1.50 / GB. No “intro price” that triples next month. Apex starts at £4.00 / GB. That’s more than double for slower hardware. You can literally buy two servers here for the price of one over there. Just saying.
3. Support that feels like Discord DMs, not a ticket abyss
Jump into our Discord at 3 a.m, someone’s online, usually the same person who built the node. Average reply? Under five minutes. With Apex you open a ticket, wait in a queue, and get a copy-paste about “try restarting”. We don’t do scripts, we do actual fixes.
4. Backups that don’t cost extra
We back up your entire server twice a day and move it off-site to prevent data loss. Apex charges for “premium backups” or limits you to daily. Losing three hours of progress is annoying. Losing three days is rage-quit territory.
5. DDoS protection that just works
CosmicGuard is baked in, free, automatic, no “upgrade to Pro” pop-ups. Apex has protection too, but if someone’s bored on a Friday night you’ll still find yourself timing out. We’ve weathered 400 Gbps attacks without a hiccup.
6. Locations and latency
Right now we’re live in Frankfurt (9 ms to most of Europe). Apex has more flags on the map, sure, but half of them are oversold nodes with 180 ms ping. We’d rather give you one killer location than five mediocre ones.
7. Control panel that doesn’t feel like 2012
We skinned Pterodactyl into something called Cosmo UI. Dark mode, one-click modpack and plugin installs, live support and VS Code style text editor. Apex still runs Multicraft: functional, but it looks like your dad’s router dashboard.
8. Eco bragging rights
100 % renewable energy. Backups going green soon. You can tell your chat you’re saving blocky forests and real ones.
Bottom line
Apex is bigger, older, and has a marketing budget the size of a small country. We’re smaller, faster, cheaper, greener, and we actually answer when you @ us at 2 a.m, If that sounds like your vibe, smash the button below and we’ll spin up your server before you finish your coffee.
Tech-Spec TLDR
Free with ExpHost - Paid elsewhere
- CosmicGuard DDoS protection (Apex: extra £3/mo)
- 2× daily off-site backups (Apex: £2/mo)
- DDR5 RAM (Apex: DDR4 only)
- NVMe SSD (Apex: SATA SSD)
- Sub-5-minute Discord support (Apex: ticket queue)
- 100 % renewable energy (Apex: not disclosed)