I just wanted to ask how the Minecraft server hosts make a profit. Because you can already rent such a server from 5 euro or so for a month. But the electricity costs in one month are higher for the hoster.
Because not only a minecraft server on a root server is running, so the whole worthwhile, also have such providers other prices for the electricity than you as a private person.
No, the electricity costs are certainly not higher.
The servers run anyway 24/7 no matter whether there last load or not. You also share the server hardware with many others.
Well… They do not buy another computer for each Mc server. Usually, the Mc servers are virtualized.
So you share the same hardware with several people at the same time.
That's why cheap hosters like Host Unlimited think so bad as well:
It's buying too many servers on one machine. Also, I think virtualization is not really the best there…
