The rules we write by

Minecraft hosting has an honesty problem, and the people buying it know. Spend an hour in r/admincraft and you will find the same complaints on rotation: review scores nobody can trace, benchmarks with no methodology, and comparison pages where the competitor mysteriously never wins.

We publish into that. So these are the rules everything on this site is written under, stated plainly enough that you can hold us to them.

1. Every comparison says when the other host is better

After a three-sentence verdict, every comparison page’s first real section is the case for buying from someone else — ahead of the spec table and ahead of any argument for us. Not a token line: the actual conditions, with the arithmetic where arithmetic applies.

The comparison pages that carried this rule are not published at the moment. They were written around capabilities the platform does not run yet, and rather than reword them into something vaguer we took them down until the product catches up. When they come back, that section comes back with them: exaroton genuinely wins on light, irregular usage, and if your budget is zero then no paid host is your answer, ours included.

2. No review scores we cannot source

There is no star rating on this site, no “rated 4.9 by 12,000 crafters”, and no review count. Not because we think reviews are unimportant, but because we do not yet have a body of verifiable ones — and a number you cannot click through to is decoration.

When that changes, the badge will link to the actual reviews.

3. Numbers carry a date and a method

Prices change and hardware gets replaced. Anything we state as a fact about a competitor carries the date we checked it, and gets re-checked on a schedule rather than whenever someone notices it is stale.

Latency and performance claims come with how they were measured — from where, when, with what. A ping figure without a test location is a number-shaped opinion.

4. We link the source instead of characterising it

If we say a competitor has a support problem, the sentence links to the thread or the status page it came from, and we quote rather than paraphrase. Paraphrasing is how “some users reported delays” becomes “notoriously terrible support” over three drafts.

5. We do not lead with RAM

The easiest way to sell a bigger plan is to imply that memory fixes lag. It does not, and we will not build a funnel that depends on you believing it. Our RAM calculator will routinely recommend less than we sell, and our guide on the subject spends most of its length explaining why the question is smaller than you have been told.

6. Corrections are visible

When a post is wrong, it gets fixed in place with a note saying what changed, and the updated date on the page moves. We do not silently edit a claim out of existence and carry on.

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None of this is a favour to you. It is the only strategy available to a small host competing with companies that can outspend us — being the one whose numbers survive being checked. If you catch us breaking one of these rules, that is a bug report, and we would genuinely like to receive it.