Shared Minecraft hosting throttles your server when the node gets busy. VPS hosting charges for bandwidth. Columbia Colocation gives you a dedicated machine in Quincy, WA — 10–20ms from Seattle, 50 Mbps of bandwidth included, your JVM settings, your mods, your rules. Rack space from $85/mo — bring your own hardware.
Shared Minecraft hosting puts your server on a node with 20 other servers. When someone's modpack spikes CPU, yours slows down. Dedicated hardware in Quincy gives you the full machine — and the latency from Seattle is functionally the same.
8 cores, 16 threads, all yours. No hypervisor neighbors running their Tekkit pack at 2am while your players are trying to raid. Every CPU cycle is yours.
Vanilla, modpacks, plugins, dynmap, voice chat — 50 Mbps included, no per-GB billing. Comfortably covers the vast majority of Minecraft servers, even with heavy modpacks and voice chat.
Full root access. Install Paper, Spigot, Fabric, Forge, Purpur — whatever you want. Tune JVM flags, run custom startup scripts, deploy your own monitoring. No panel limiting what you can install.
Quincy, WA to Seattle is 10–20ms round-trip — imperceptible lag in Minecraft. Your players in the Pacific Northwest get sub-20ms connections. Grant County players get sub-5ms.
1TB SSD included. Chunk loading, world saves, backup rotations — fast storage means a snappy server, especially on large worlds or modpacks with heavy world generation.
$99/mo flat. No per-player billing, 50 Mbps of bandwidth included, no premium tier for actually using the hardware. What you see is what you pay — every month.
| Factor | Columbia Colocation Bare Metal · Quincy, WA | Shared Minecraft Host Apex, Bisect, Shockbyte | Cloud VPS AWS/Linode/DO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost (64GB) | $99 flat | $40–$120 (shared, limited RAM) | $300–$600+ |
| Hardware | Dedicated — yours alone | Shared node, shared CPU | Shared hypervisor |
| Bandwidth | 50Mbps included, no per-GB | Capped or throttled | Metered or egress billed |
| Root access | Full root + iDRAC | Panel only | Root, no hardware mgmt |
| JVM control | Fully custom | Panel-limited | Custom if root |
| Latency to Seattle | 10–20ms | Varies (usually US-East) | 20–35ms (Oregon) |
| Contract | None — month-to-month | Monthly | Monthly |
We own the hardware, you run your server.
Founder rate, 1U. You own the server.
Tell us your player count and what you're running — we'll talk through your hardware options and get you set up.