It's very cheap and it certainly works but the main problem is they are down a lot, which means you have to go back and start you bot when they do. I don't have much problem with them having maintenance, but at least restart my bot automatically.
Support: 3.5/5
Service: 3.8/5 (if there wasnt much down time it would be a 5)
Price: 5/5
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Timothy S.
Alright
Alright, have slow response time, and they have had a time where you cant create a ticket. Now there is a server outage, and no word form any staff member. Would be better spending the extra for something like pebble host, where you have good service time.
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Rokas
Decent service but could improve on uptime
Tickets usually take some time to get resolved because the staff don't work here full time and are usually at work or school. Yes, their prices and hardware are quite great and decent however their uptime is horrible. I constantly have my MySQL server or main server down due to "technical difficulties" and because of it, it's down for more than 4 hours. Take note that I do recognize when it's the servers fault and not the files that stop it from starting. Their uptime is usually 80-90% I would say, but that 20% is just a pain. I hate waking up in the mornings just to see my server go down and loads of people messaging me about it.
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ScorchedPsyche
Fast support, but I didn't have as good experience as everyone here describes
TL;DR:
-Good and fast support;
-Good server interface;
-Server setup wasn't instant. It seems they don't have it automated as it took a few hours for my server to come online;
-Server performance was bad and it was unable to handle 1.13 Vanilla in a fresh world with only 1 online player. Support claimed it was due to Vanilla being poorly optimized, but the same server ran fine on Realms and on my new host (one I rented after this one and used same settings I had on DeluxeNode). Spigot improved server performance, but still not perfect. All this led me to believe that the hardware may be under heavy usage or that you may have "just enough resources" to run your server. I didn't press the issue any further with support - since the first answer was for me to wait out until PaperMC released - and decided to simply change to another hosting company and everything is smooth now;
-Due to a responsive support, I would try them out again in the future. They've seemed to run out of stock shortly after I purchased my server with them, so maybe the servers were crammed at the time of my renting.
Full story:
When 1.13 was released, I decided to create a fresh world to play with my GF and the occasional friends. Due to the limitations of Realms, I've decided to set up a new private paid server where I could bypass it's limitations, like the server rendering distance config.
I specifically came to this hosting company because of all of the good reviews here specifically stating that the servers are great. I however, did not experience this. The support, however, was good and fast, and they partially resolved my issue - even the partial was because I kept pressing the issue and asking for solutions.
I still have a download of the last world I had when I switched from Realms to DeluxeNode and started having the server performance issues. We had just started, so we basically had nothing. We had a cow farm with about 28 crammed cows and a monster trap about 16 chunks away from my base (none of which were a problem on Realms, my future hosting company server and my local computer).
On contacting the support about the issues, their first response was that the "Vanilla Minecraft servers are still poorly optimized" and that I should wait for them to announce when PaperMC (alternative more optimized server) got released and that should fix my issue.
I am not a person that complains for the occasional lag here and there, however, it was hard to enjoy the game as the server was performing poorly and, once I reached The End (and got disconnected after entering it), I decided to try to resolve this before dying on the Void due to lag. Some of the issues I was experiencing with the Vanilla 1.13 server:
-Frequent "An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host";
-Random but frequent "Can't keep up! ..." which usually led to several successive disconnections;
-Random disconnections being unable to reconnect for a few minutes;
-Random lag spikes;
-Not being able to stay AFK on the server overnight. When I woke up the next day I had generally been disconnected.
I asked again to support if nothing could be done and they suggested that I install Spigot, that solved the "Can't keep up! ..." issues and the server became much more stable with only the disconnects and lag spikes here and there.
Overall, good and fast support, but in my experience the server couldn't really handle anything when I rented it. All this led me to believe that the hardware may be under heavy usage or that you may have "just enough resources" to run your server - maybe it was crammed. I didn't press the issue any further with support (even though they told me to let them know of the results - which I did) and decided to move on to another host and everything is running smooth now.
Response from Venelium HostingOct 30, 2018
Hello,
Thank you for taking your time to write a review.
We would like to inform you that there should be no issue running Minecraft 1.13.2 at DeluxeNode anymore due to the bug fixes.
Thanks,
The DeluxeNode Team