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:
- FiveM Documentation: https://docs.fivem.net/docs/support/ban-faq/#unauthorized-game-server-provider-gsp
- FiveM Terms of Service: https://fivem.net/terms (5.8. Authorized & Unauthorized Services)
- WHMCS License Checker: https://www.whmcs.com/members/verifydomain.php/verifydomain.php
- Blesta License Checker: https://account.blesta.com/client/plugin/license_verify
Here is a list of providers that you should avoid with reasoning:
Provider | Reason |
---|---|
ThunderNodes | Improper (discord) checkout |
Luxe Hosting | No publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware), unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers |
Proxynode | No publicly available SLA |
Vellias Hosting | No publicly available SLA & Privacy Policy, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers |
Lunes Hosting | No publicly available SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware), Terms of Service is a template (termly.io) |
Foxomy | Terms of Service that requires you to "Identify as Black, Indigenous, Latino, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, or a Person of Color." |
Crystallized Hosting | Missing publicly available information (regarding hardware) |
The Minecraft Hosting | Missing publicly available information (regarding hardware), no publicly available Privacy Policy & SLA |
Evix Datacenter | No publicly available Privacy Policy & SLA, official account threatening to DDoS people (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), official discord account using slurs (1, 2) |
Skytale Hosting | No publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers |
BlackNode | Bulletproof provider that promotes themselves for spoofed & bulletproof servers and botnets & DDoS tools |
Boundless Hosting | No publicly available Privacy Policy, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers |
SpaceNode Hosting | No publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware), unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers |
PSB Hosting | Bulletproof provider that promotes themselves for DMCA ignorant & bulletproof servers |
Realms Hosting | Unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers |
RAPIDHost | Unauthorized GSP selling FiveM & RedM servers, hardware information is unspecific (different processors in the “Xeon E-series” can have noticeable performance difference) |
proxied.host | No publicly available Privacy Policy & SLA |
Nyxiality Hosting | No publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware) |
EmpireNodes Hosting | Rigged reviews, no Privacy Policy |
Cosmic Hosting | No publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & SLA, unauthorized GSP selling FiveM servers |
HostSpace | Improper (discord) checkout, missing publicly available information (regarding hardware) |
Tegra Hosting | Fallback company made by ZTX, the companies lost data several times had their nodes suspended. |
Springracks | Obstructive Terms of Service that disallows running any task that will completely cap out the CPU limit set on your service (What if there’s just high load on your Minecraft server? Who knows!) |
EmpireNodes | No Privacy Policy, Terms of Service that disallows "Saying we are using fake ram" , Beg for new nodes |