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Summerhosts

The term “Summerhost” is used for service providers that are poorly ran and/or operating illegally which should be avoided, below is a list of characteristics that will end you up on our avoid list.

Avoid providers that feature the following:

  • Businesses that do not contain contact details (ex. email & phone)
  • Website with false or missing information
  • Improper billing (discord checkout etc)
  • No Terms of Service or Privacy Policy
  • No SLA (“Service Level Agreement”)
  • Oversold servers
  • Deceptive sales
  • Rigged reviews (ex. review rewards)
  • Obstructive Terms of Service that disallows doing basic stuff within the server (ex. pregenning)
  • Lack of basic features such as databases and backups
  • Pirating software used on the provider (ex. “nulled” WHMCS and other software)
  • Violating other project’s rights (ex. selling licensed software without authorization)
  • GSP (Game Server Providers) that sell preconfigured FiveM servers (excluding Zap Hosting)

Sources & Useful Tools:

Here is a list of providers that you should avoid with reasoning:

ProviderReason
ThunderNodesImproper (discord) checkout
Luxe HostingNo publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware), unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers
ProxynodeNo publicly available SLA
Vellias HostingNo publicly available SLA & Privacy Policy, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers
Lunes HostingNo publicly available SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware), Terms of Service is a template (termly.io)
FoxomyTerms of Service that requires you to "Identify as Black, Indigenous, Latino, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, or a Person of Color."
Crystallized HostingMissing publicly available information (regarding hardware)
The Minecraft HostingMissing publicly available information (regarding hardware), no publicly available Privacy Policy & SLA
Evix DatacenterNo publicly available Privacy Policy & SLA, official account threatening to DDoS people (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), official discord account using slurs (1, 2)
Skytale HostingNo publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers
BlackNodeBulletproof provider that promotes themselves for spoofed & bulletproof servers and botnets & DDoS tools
Boundless HostingNo publicly available Privacy Policy, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers
SpaceNode HostingNo publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware), unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers
PSB HostingBulletproof provider that promotes themselves for DMCA ignorant & bulletproof servers
Realms HostingUnauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers
RAPIDHostUnauthorized GSP selling FiveM & RedM servers, hardware information is unspecific (different processors in the “Xeon E-series” can have noticeable performance difference)
proxied.hostNo publicly available Privacy Policy & SLA
Nyxiality HostingNo publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware)
EmpireNodes HostingRigged reviews, no Privacy Policy
Cosmic HostingNo publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers
HostSpaceImproper (discord) checkout, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware)
Tegra HostingFallback company made by ZTX, the companies lost data several times had their nodes suspended.
EmpireNodesNo publicly available Privacy Policy, Terms of Service that disallows "Saying we are using fake ram", Beg for new nodes
SliceNodeNo publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, SLA
VividMCCNo publicly available Privacy Policy, improper (discord) checkout
UnknownHostNo publicly available Privacy Policy
EnvyNodesNo publicly available SLA, improper (discord) checkout
DHostingNo publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, SLA