- 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 