Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, my family’s Minecraft server is off to external hosting. Let’s get started!
Apex Minecraft Hosting: If I had to give them one thing, it would be that it was easy to get things going first try. On the other hand, I’m having trouble with fine-tuning things. This is the story of how my family’s server, Creepers N Cream, is moving to professional hosting.
A streamer friend by the name of DS9Fireblade speaks highly of Apex’s customer support, particularly their live chat service. I’ve only interacted with them over support tickets, and I will say they get back decently quickly.
I know I said the server was graduating a while a while ago, but there is something to be said about keeping things going with the hardware you have, and I had a hard time accepting the transition. It took a soft merger with DS9’s newer, but larger community before I was willing to budge. With more people possibly coming on, the already overworked CPU would be at even more of a loss to keep things going smoothly. When DS9’s server experienced an anomaly during a version upgrade, I moved to push Creepers up to hosting.
I would say anyone with a decent amount of basic Minecraft server hosting experience should be able to migrate a world with Apex. I prefer the sleek aesthetics of MineOS’s web interface to Apex’s panel, but Apex’s panel has more complete functionality.
Another thing I noticed right away was how Apex is using less RAM than MineOS with just G1GC: at baseline, the server is now at just under 2GB while before, it was at 3GB when it wasn’t starting at 4.
Learning a new interface can be overwhelming. My MineOS experience helped a lot, but I came up wtih a list of things I wanted to talk with customer support about. I gave it a night or two, but when I got back into panel, I found the answers to some of my questions, though not all.
At present, I still have a few concerns for tech support. Apex’s account information appears to be directly linked to billing information, and that includes e-mail. So far, I am the one maintaining the back end, but I am not the one financing things. I’d also like to see about getting all those UTC times moved to something I’m a little more familiar with; I couldn’t find that setting anywhere. And then, maybe I can see about addressing the scheduling for bi-daily restarts and backups.
Final Question: When was the last time you have asked someone something, but got a bad answer because of a slightly different working definition of a word?