Honest comparison
Hostd vs GGServers
Two hardware lines at $3 and $6 per GB, with the cheap one restricted to two locations. Here is how the maths works out.
Where GGServers is strong
- Transparent pricing: a flat $3 per GB on Standard and $6 per GB on Premium, with no first-term teaser rate. The price you see is the renewal price, which is rarer in this market than it should be.
- They publish the actual specs of both lines rather than hiding the budget one, so you can knowingly pick a 400 MB/s SSD at $3 a GB or NVMe at $6.
- Nine regions on the Premium line, spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, which is wider coverage than most budget hosts manage.
- Free DDoS protection and a free subdomain on every plan, including the $3 entry tier.
Where Hostd wins
One hardware line, not two
Every Hostd plan runs on the same Ryzen 9700X with DDR5 and NVMe. GGServers charge double for the fast line: Standard is 3.2 to 4 GHz on an SSD at around 400 MB/s, which is the tier most people land on from the headline price.
Every region on every plan
GGServers restrict Standard to Montreal and Roubaix. The nine-location figure is a Premium feature, so a Standard customer in Sydney or Los Angeles is served from Canada or France.
Backups that go off the box
GGServers keep three backup slots and expect you to build the schedule yourself, after which they overwrite. Our daily backups are automatic and stored off-site, so a node failure is not also a data loss.
A refund window you can actually use
Theirs is 24 hours, measured from server creation, not payment, and applies to a first order only. Ours is seven days, no questions asked.
No slot meter, no database surcharge
Standard plans cap player slots at 12 per GB until 16 GB and charge a one-off $2 to change them, and MySQL is $2 a month unless you prepay quarterly or buy Premium. Slots and databases are part of the plan here.
Pricing at comparable specs
Minecraft Java pricing, monthly billing. Hostd rows show our actual plan tiers; competitor rows show their closest-RAM plan. See /pricing for our other games.
Competitor prices shown in USD as published by them, as of 28 August 2026. Our prices convert to your selected currency at today's rate.
Their column shows the Standard line, which is the one the headline $3 per GB buys. On like-for-like hardware the comparison is against Premium at $6 per GB, where 3 GB is $18 and 6 GB is $36, roughly double our price for specs we ship as standard. Two other things shape the table: GGServers have no 10 GB or 14 GB tier, so those rows show the next size up that you would be forced to buy, and Standard is limited to Montreal and Roubaix regardless of where your players are. At 3 GB they do undercut us by 99 cents, and we would rather point at that than pretend otherwise.
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