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Yes, this is an ad. Yes, we'd love your money. And yes — we're still going to be straighter with you than the host you're on right now. In a market this full of "up to," "powerful," and "unlimited," the only thing left that actually works is telling you the truth. So here's the honest column, sitting right next to the one everyone else writes.
Let's get the obvious out of the way. We're a host. We want you to rent a server from us. We're not going to do the thing where we pretend that's not what's happening. But the part we genuinely care about more than the sale: we want you to spend the night playing the game with your friends — not reading a wiki to work out which
.ini value just nuked your world. Configure less. Play more. The hardware honesty below is just how we earn the right to say that.| What you're comparing | AcidNodes | The typical host |
|---|---|---|
| Switching games | Free, instant, as often as you like — and every world is kept. Measured on our node: 3s to switch, world byte-identical coming back. Play Conan for a month, switch to Palworld, switch back: your Conan world is exactly where you left it. | Usually a reinstall — "pick the game, click Install." Some hosts sell you a stored slot per world you want to keep. |
| More than one game | Your RAM is a pool you divide. One 16 GB plan is one Conan world, or Valheim and Enshrouded side by side. No second bill. | A separate box per game, billed separately — the same idea, charged twice. |
| Your world, long-term | Yours. Download it from the file manager whenever you like, including on your way out. No export fee, no ticket. | Often reachable only through support, and sometimes not at all once you have cancelled. |
| The CPU you run on | Named: Ryzen 9 9950X, 16c/32t at up to 5.75 GHz — stated plainly, and we answer any question about it. | "Powerful enterprise-grade hardware." Which chip, exactly? They'd rather not say. |
| Your RAM | Guaranteed and dedicated, carved out of a box we deliberately keep far from full. | Often "up to," often shared. Fine — right up until everyone logs on at once. |
| The price | One ladder, $11 to $59, every rung and what it runs printed on the page. $2.75/GB down to $2.46 — do the math yourself. | Published… then quietly tied to player slots, "premium" add-ons, and a renewal that isn't the intro rate. |
| Player slots | You set the cap. The price doesn't move. We sell hardware, not seats. | Frequently billed per player. More friends, more money. |
| Is the box oversold? | Never — kernel-enforced caps, and we'll docker inspect yours while you watch. | "Don't worry about it." (Reader, you should probably worry about it.) |
| Can you verify any of it? | Every number here is on the spec block, and you can ask us to run any check you like — re-run on request, before you've paid a cent. | A stock photo of a server rack with a blue glow. |
| Who actually runs it | The GamesOMG team — the people who wrote the config tools you already use. | A support tier. |
About the “typical host” column: we're describing the industry's typical pattern, not pinning a specific quote on a specific competitor — partly because it's a moving target, mostly because we don't need to. Every claim in our column is a link or a command you can check yourself. That's the only column anyone can actually stand behind, so it's the only one we'll put our name on.
Don't trust a comparison table written by the company that wins it. Good instinct — keep it. So don't take the table's word for anything: inspect the actual box → the CPU, the real RAM, the enforced caps, in command output we'll re-run live if you ask.
Valheim from $11 · Enshrouded from $22 · Palworld & Windrose from $32 · Conan from $41 — one ladder, all on the same box above.