A small host that tells you the truth about sizing

Why it exists

Most game server shops sell you a number and hope. A "16 GB" plan might be eight players on a heavy modpack that needs twelve, or a twenty-player lobby on a game that idles at two. The customer finds out at the point where the server lags, which is the worst possible moment.

Hostboi is built the other way around. Tell us the game, the player count and whether you run mods, and we show you the arithmetic: this game needs six gigabytes before anyone connects, sixteen players at roughly half a gigabyte each, so here is the smallest plan that holds it. If the answer is "you need more than we sell", we say so.

What the servers run on

Game servers run on dedicated OVH hardware with NVMe storage, managed through the Calagopus panel. Billing runs on Blesta. Both are ours to operate, which means when something breaks there is no vendor queue between you and the fix.

The panel gives you console access, a file manager, scheduled tasks, databases and daily backups on every plan. Nothing on that list is an upsell.

How we sell

One system, nineteen sizes, every supported game on the same ladder. $2.99 per gigabyte per month, with discounts for longer terms. Moving between games does not mean buying a second product — you change the game and keep the plan.

We publish a 99.9% uptime target rather than a slogan, and we would rather turn down a sale than put a modpack on a plan that will fall over the moment twelve people join.

Who you're dealing with

Hostboi is run by one person, in Colorado. The person who answers your ticket is the person who built and runs the server it is about — not a script that asks you to restart it, and not a queue of escalations. The trade-off is honest: replies come during the day, Mountain Time.

Questions before you buy are welcome, and so are the awkward ones: talk to us.