izzie
I echo most of the other reviews
I echo what most of the other reviewers here said. Aternos is solidly average, but it's one of the only options for free hosting. Aternos is great for a newbie server host. I was 100% new and didn't want to invest money into something I wouldn't enjoy managing/ wouldn't have any friends interested in joining. It was great to experiment with and get familiar with mods and creating worlds. ultimately though I outgrew it very quickly. Since I work retail MOST of the time my play times were not during Aternos' peaks (I would say after work/school hours EU and weekends). But during those times I wanted to play and it was peak, I could see 45+ minute queue times to start my server. The handful of friends I had playing with me would ask me to boot the server and quickly lose interest when I told them how long it would take. I didn't find the lag awful, a little distracting at times. Once I started experimenting with mods, that's when things really started to fall about. Trying to install a world / tp around with Multiverse was an ordeal that would take 30+ mins of restarting the server. If this was during peak times, I could forget it. Every time I had to restart for a mod function I was thrown back in queue. I used Aternos for about a month before I started looking for paid options. I would still recommend highly for someone new / experimenting but at the end of the day, if you want serious hosting you should either do it yourself or find a paid service with higher quality.