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.

Note

For hosting providers that meet the requirements below but are not already on the list you can submit an issue on GitHub. Providers that no longer meet the criteria defined below can request removal using this link

Disclaimer: Information was accurate at the time of publication and may not reflect any recent changes we’ve not been made aware of. The list of providers below should be used as a reference point. This page mostly relies on publicly available information published by listed providers (and information that is not public will be displayed on this page).

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.
EmpireNodes	No publicly available Privacy Policy, Terms of Service that disallows "Saying we are using fake ram", Beg for new nodes
SliceNode	No publicly available Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, SLA
VividMCC	No publicly available Privacy Policy, improper (discord) checkout
UnknownHost	No publicly available Privacy Policy