Hardware

Decided for bots, open for Minecraft

Discord bots run on a server in Vienna, and this page says exactly what it is. The machine for Minecraft is still being chosen, so for that one it says what we have decided and what we have not.

Where Discord bots run today

WhereA datacentre in Vienna, Austria, run by a German company
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9645 (Zen 5), 8 virtual cores for the whole machine
Memory16 GB. Your plan's share is a hard limit, and we do not sell more than the machine holds
Storage320 GB SSD
NetworkThe datacentre's own network, which filters floods before they reach the machine
BackupsDaily, three kept. On the same machine for now; the off-site copy is built but not switched on yet

It is a virtual server, not a physical box of our own. We say so because "dedicated hardware" is the most stretched phrase in hosting.

The Minecraft machine

This is the Minecraft machine, and it has not been bought yet. Processor, memory, network and location are all still being decided, so none of them are listed here, and all four will be published in full before anyone can pay for anything. Discord bots do not wait on this: they already run, in an Austrian datacentre. Not open yet. Ask us in Discord.
ProcessorUndecided
MemoryUndecided. Whatever it is, your plan's share will be a hard limit
StorageNVMe solid state on every Minecraft plan. Not negotiable, whichever machine we take
ConnectionUndecided
LocationUndecided
SharingNone. Your slice is walled off and the limits are enforced
OversellingNever. Every plan gets the memory it was sold, held for it

Blank rows are the honest answer today. A specification invented now, to be quietly corrected later, is the thing this page exists to avoid.

What we are looking for

Both of the things we host care more about how fast a single core is than how many there are. A Minecraft world does most of its thinking in one place, and a bot spends its time waiting on one event at a time. So we are looking for a fast modern core rather than an ancient server chip with sixty slow threads, which is the trade most budget hosts make and the one you feel.

What "dedicated" means

Every plan will run on the same processor at the same speed. Going up the range buys you room to run more world at once. It does not make the chip faster. Nobody can sell you that.

Fast storage on every plan

NVMe throughout. Loading a new area of the world is mostly a disk job, so slow storage shows up as a stutter every time somebody explores somewhere new. We would rather not have that on any plan, so NVMe is the one part of the specification already settled. Whether the machine mirrors it across two drives depends on which machine we take.

What that gets you

Why this beats a slice of a mystery machine

Knowing the machine is the point. Here is what follows from it.

You get a person who knows your server.

Small on purpose. There is no ticket queue and no first-line script: you message us and you reach somebody who can open a console and look. Most things get sorted in one reply, the same evening.

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What you buy is what you get.

We sell the memory and the storage the machine actually has, and not a megabyte more. Nobody is squeezed in on top of you at the end of the month to hit a number. If a plan is sold out we will tell you it is sold out.

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See for yourself

Every bot plan runs on the machine described at the top of this page. Flurry is free for seven days, so finding out costs nothing.