- One time payment
- easy to install
- one click creating instances
- awesome community
- recommend by Raid Owl
I’m using amp for 1 week for the record
My friends often asks me to set up a modded Minecraft server for them.
With AMP, I can just give them a login and they can host a server themselves, and a whole lot of other games.
I didn’t need to exhaust the market, because AMP already did everything I needed.
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Previously I was using haru host, however it had quite a few errors and did not let me easily add servers outside of there drop-down list. I did some research using ChatGPT to find out what features are available as far as server management tools go. Ultimately I settled for AMP.
I didn’t choose AMP. It chose me.
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Ease of install is my top reason. Literally just ran the install script in a Debian VM and that’s it. It just works.
The other solutions (namely Pterodactyl and Pelican) seemed to give ‘suggestions’ about what dependencies they needed, manual setting up this and that nodes, then the control panel, just a bit of an unguided mess.
I bought the Advanced license right off the bat, because while I likely won’t utilize all the features, I deeply respect the one-time payment of (very) reasonable cost, as opposed to a subscription model.
Mild necro here, but the topic intrigued me. I’ve been hosting one-off servers for decades just as friends or I wanted them, but I didn’t get serious about hosting regular servers as a service until early last year. I remember when I started looking for game hosting software I didn’t even know what search terms to use, but somehow stumbled across the AMP store page. I kept that tab open, did some searches comparing AMP to other options, then ultimately decided AMP was what I was looking for and picked up the Advanced Edition.
Things got a little interesting from there. I would describe my tech knowledge as that of a Windows power user. I fired up AMP on my then one server and used that for several months hosting servers for myself and friends. This was a positive enough experience that I decided as my first mistake that I wanted to do this as a small business. I did not know what I didn’t know to be able to do that! The business side of things went through several evolutions as a I learned what I could and couldn’t do with different software and their EULAs, eventually I want back to specializing in hosting my own servers with in or out of game stores. As I found out what it would take to secure the servers and offer different services I went through several other panels such Pterodactyl and a few forks, GSA, and whatever Minecraft panel was popular that month. My main reason for leaving AMP was honestly just not understanding how to use it! Each panel taught me something new however, and as I learned more about securing and using a network, servers on Linux, and other panel options I started reassessing AMP again. With how much I’ve grown in the last year, and honestly so has AMP unlike many other platforms, I strongly believe it has always been the best platform for what I wanted.
Bullets for improvement:
- AMP needs a “for dummies” mode. EXPECIALLY for those downloading the Windows client on a lower level license, just put the training wheels on! Don’t even present “Hybrid” configurations, Docker containers, branding, etc. without at least a “I have some idea what I’m doing” checkbox. Best yet but further down the road, make in client suggestions for enabling new options and learning how different pieces work. I firmly believe you’ll get more sales that way.
- … That’s about it, I was going to add more suggestions for simplifying interface or control options, but the first suggestion wraps that up with a bow. Maybe an Adobe style “Pick your experience level” during install would serve the same purpose?
Bullets for great features:
- One-time purchase is my favorite feature for non-enterprise users by far, and also it has been worth many times what I paid for it.
- Your community is great! Are there more ways to capitalize on that? More how to articles and diagrams would be nice. Maybe a series to take the aspiring sys admin from the “for dummies” level to the full-featured mode? Tutorials bring in searches from all over the web even to unrelated sites, and more eyes on AMP certainly can’t hurt!
- Updates and security just keep getting better.
- Keep up the new integrations! I can hardly express how excited I am for Curseforge features in AMP.
That’s what I’ve got, thanks for the solid software and continued development!
Site is nice clear and reasonable priced.
And also based in Bristol, had to support local 
I found it very inexpensive to buy and very easy to use.
Support is great from the community.
A friend recommended AMP. It helped that I could install it first to give it a try before happily pay for the license for such a thought through product, even covering backups. Your support is amazing and the forum is a great help when having an issue.
I chose AMP because the YouTuber Zach’s Tech Turf said he used it. Many people thought it was a dumb decision of mine and it probably was. Many people were telling me to use Playit.gg instead, but because I already paid for AMP at that point, I went with it. I’m glad I did because I was still new to server management and AMP was where I learned a lot about how servers worked.
I tried pterodactyl but I couldn’t get it to work. Alternative for me was to run games manually through docker but I found AMP and decided to give it a try.
I was surprised how easy the install process was and it worked from the get-go. Even caddy has 0 issues with it and just started proxying to it (after I found the config on the forums that is).
There are still some issues I have with AMP but it mostly just works.
(one gripe I have is not being able to use OIDC along with credentials login but that’s understandable).
I used Pterodactyl mainly because it was open source. But there is so much config required and kept running into issues with a few areas. I swapped to AMP and never looked back, easy to config, interface is amazing welll documented and everoyne is always helpful. We are very happy with AMP.
I’ve been using my homegrown minecraft panel and factorio server manager so far, but wanted something where I wouldn’t have to manually setup servers for my friends.
When I bought amp, users could not yet create and manager their own instances without full admin, thankfully you added that 
With OpenID Connect I also don’t have to manage seperate user accounts anymore. Whem one of my friends asks if I can host a server, I just register them to my SSO provider and tell them to have fun.
Personally I’m only missing 2 things currently:
- I’d love it if a user could give another one access to their managed instances, so they’re shared. That’s something I still have to do by hand
- Allowing “Call home”-gameservers would be awesome. So instead of the manager connecting to the gameserver, the gameserver connects to the manager. That way I could have my gamepanel accessable and just prepare a small server and take it with me to LAN parties where I don’t want to open any ports.
With the recent changes AMP has basically become my dream gameserver manager.
The installation couldn’t be much easier and it just works most of the time.
I was originally using Crafty Controller and then a security vulnerability at the time caused a ransomware attack on my serever. When I came back I was looking for an alternative, I quickly came across AMP. I was attacted by it being a premium (but non subscription based) service with a focus on security and modularity.
These days aside from my website and personal cloud, AMP runs everything even down to my Discord bot with the node/python app runners. It also is very quick to get new game support. If I ever needed more instances, i wouldn’t hesitate to pay the £15/mo subscription. The support in the disccord is great and the product is stable and feature rich. And with their recent statements on Lifetime meaning lifetime really assured me that Cubecoders is doing right by their customers.
I found AMP entirely by accident through a youtube video from Hardware Haven. After watching his video, I researched it and found other videos and documentation about it and discovered that it would make streamlining managing my game servers a lot easier. Whether that be by automatically adjusting ports, ensuring that I don’t forget and overlap them, auto starts/restarts, etc. I used to solely rely on LinuxGSM, standalone Linux scripts, or Proton. AMP does ALL of that hassle of a setup for me, and I just have to configure it through the panel itself. There are still some quirks sometimes, but it’s 90% less of a headache using AMP than literally doing it any other way.
Mainly switched to AMP because prior to using AMD i used SteamCMD and all my servers were running in seperate command terminals. It was a mess to keep everything organized and up to date and very time consuming. Accidentally stumbled upon AMP one day while i was trying to find a solution to make hosting of my servers more managable and less time consuming. Been using it ever since. 
Because it actually works, consistently unlike other platforms. The community is also very active and helpful, not to mention the devs.
I have been a long time gaming/hosting nut, from starting with UT2k3, Battlefield, Ark Survival, to all flavors/variations of Minecraft (cobblemon, FTB, ATM, etc..) and I used to host them all on separate VMs, servers, Windows terminal scripts, etc…. I have tried many opensource gaming panels and I finally got fed up with Ptero… when my server got hacked due to a security exploit the week they came out with a patch for it but didnt get a chance to apply. I wanted something simple to install and maintain, easy to setup instances of various games in one panel and something reliable and secure. After a month of research and various testing of panels, AMP came out on top imho, offer different levels of purchase options, etc… As others mentioned and I have experienced with asked questions you get an answer in a timely manner not waiting days or weeks for an answer or guidance. The AMP community is growing I see numerous new joins daily and reading up on comments, questions and answers, info is just a discord search away. You can’t go wrong with AMP!
Ive used other panels such as Pterodactyl and pelican, but the hassle of setting it up, i tinker alot with servers so sometimes i nuke my setup, this is where amp is brilliant, you fire one command away and you are golden.
also adding eggs n stuff on other panels were a pain, its nice that amp is just easy, it updates frequently, and you as a sysadmin, just have to update the server every now and then to maintain everything, so easy and maintainable, as of now i have not seen any toxicity on the forum / discord when you ask dumb questions! which is REALLY nice, and makes you want to support the project and makes you feel welcome
I want to say I stumbled across AMP without any recommendations from other users/youtube. Advertising could be a bit better as lesser services are displayed more than AMP is. But honestly, glad I finally found AMP.
Reasons I chose AMP over others (Not saying others don’t have these, AMP just does them right):
- The management panel itself having base layer security so I can open webhost for other friends - Requiring 2FA, forced password reset, logon manager, etc…
- Simplicity once pre-set for container/server deployment
- Ability to set up permission groups for Friends to use the panel to make servers
- Wide variety of pre-set games for containers, making the setup point and click in only a few steps
- Server statuses on the Dashboard telling you what instance is running and the demand it’s using from physical hardware
- Mod installation support without requiring the user to use FTP (Drag and Drop was HUGELY important for my case as I have normal end users making their own servers, not power server managers who have done this for a long time)
- Instance startup checks - allowing the server to choose “Just Start” or “Update, then start” without clicking is important
- Timed events/scheduling - allowing the server to autonomously run a command, script, or scheduled reboot at “X” time consistently, clearly, and reliably was huge - In relation to the simplicity for end users to set this up
- Lifetime License, one time payment - No explanation needed, this is a huge W for self hosters
- Extended support and Patient Staff - I know I was troublesome with a few requests initially, these guys were very patient with me, so thank you staff!