ScalaCube Review 2024 – Is It Worth It?

ScalaCube is a game server specialist with a particular focus on Minecraft hosting. Although its plans provide a pre-configured website and forum, plus many other features you would expect from a traditional web host, the tools it offers are limited overall.

October 12, 2024

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4.2

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VPS Hosting

$2.50 - $96.00

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Overview

🏆Performance Grade	B+
⏱️Uptime Guarantee	No
🔒Free SSL	No
🔧Hosting Types	VPS
💡Basic Plan Features	Storage: 10 GB SSD Bandwidth: Unlimited
💲Starting Price	$2.50

Most of my reviews are for regular web hosts that may incidentally provide specialist game servers. However, I’ve also reviewed hosts that primarily provide game servers that could nonetheless be used for other kinds of hosting since they have all of the same essential characteristics. You can also check out our best web hosting services list to see which hosting provider could fit your business needs best.

This one is arguably even father along the game hosting spectrum, since ScalaCube is mainly concerned with Minecraft Hosting, although it also offers hosting for Rust, Ark, and potentially other games. And consistent with what I’ve already said, this host assures you that you can use your server purpose whatsoever provided it doesn’t violate any laws.

Since the most important thing for online gaming is low latency, ScalaCube offers virtual and dedicated servers all around the world — in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Asia — so you can host your site where your users can get the lowest ping times.

ScalaCube’s website is in English.

Features and Ease of Use

ScalaCube offers 9 Minecraft VPS plans, 9 Minecraft PE VPS plans, 12 Ark plans, and 41 Rust plans. The nine Minecraft VPS plans provide you with:

768 MB to 32 GB RAM
1x to 8x 3.4GHz CPU
10 GB to 320 GB SSD storage
Automated backups (for a one-time fee)

Our game hosting plans enable you to install an unlimited number of “slots” on one VPS server, as long as your server’s “max-players” value is set. This allows your server to effortlessly support a large number of players, provided that there is enough CPU power and RAM available.

Despite the gaming bias, the hosting plans also provide everything you would expect to find for traditional web hosting, including a control panel, root access, FTP, MySQL with phpMyAdmin, PHP, and Apache. You also get a pre-configured website and forum for free.

ScalaCube lets you choose between HDD and the far faster (and more reliable) SSD storage, and it provides unlimited traffic without throttling. You get a 99.9% availability guarantee, which is around the industry average. However, ScalaCube doesn’t offer free SSL certificates, unlike Sparked Host.

Pricing and Support

ScalaCube’s Minecraft VPS plans are priced competitively. You can pay for plans monthly in a wide range of currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, NOK, SEK, MXN, BRL, NZD, and RUB. At the time of this review, you could get a Minecraft server at a 50% discount.

There is no money-back guarantee as far as I can see, but this is not an issue when you’re only committing to monthly payments.

Although you can contact this company via various methods (including email and live chat), it emphasizes that the 24/7 support team only responds to tickets submitted via the control panel. It’s little surprise, then, that my offline live chat messages were never answered.

For self-help, you’ll find several articles in the support section:

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ScalaCube REVIEW: BOTTOM LINE

ScalaCube could be a good choice for game server hosting; specifically for Minecraft. It’s just a pity I couldn’t get a pre-sales support response. It’s also a shame that the hosting features are so niche and limited. This is one of the reasons that ScalaCube isn’t featured on our best web hosting services list. I would recommend, however, checking out Hostinger’s super affordable plans since it offers more features, high performance and high-quality hosting.

Pros

Specialist game server hosting
Competitive pricing
Several server locations around the world
Multiple currencies accepted

Cons

No regular (non-gaming) shared hosting
Only industry-average uptime

FAQs

How much does ScalaCube cost?

You can actually get a free plan with ScalaCube. Although it comes with only 3GB of RAM, you can set up a solo Minecraft server without spending a penny. You’ll have to pay if you want to invite friends to play too.

Starting from $2.50/month with a 10-player capacity, ScalaCube’s plans scale to accommodate up to 300 players in your region. Dedicated game server hosting for other games (such as ARK and Rust) is more expensive, but still affordable in comparison to ScalaCube’s competitors.

ScalaCube didn’t make our list of the 10 best web hosting services for 2024, many of which offer Minecraft hosting in addition to regular hosting.

How good is ScalaCube’s customer support?

Boasting 24/7 customer support, ScalaCube’s hosting provision only includes ticketing support when logged into the control panel – a little disappointing in the age of live chat. While you can contact the company via live chat, my messages weren’t answered when I tried this.

Does ScalaCube offer free trials?

Although ScalaCube doesn’t offer free trials on their paid plans, you can test a free single-player server. There is no limit on how long you can use this free plan, but it doesn’t work for hosting a Minecraft party, so it won’t tell you how the servers will perform with multiple users – you’ll need to upgrade to a paid plan to find out.

If you want to find a bargain, check out the latest deals for 2024 on our coupon page. Then you can get a full subscription from our favorite hosts at a fraction of the cost.

Is ScalaCube’s VPS hosting worth it?

As a dedicated game server provider, ScalaCube’s VPS hosting is perfect for hosting Minecraft, Hytale, ARK, Rust, and Valheim servers. Designed to be easily scalable and moddable, there are over 1,000 click-to-install modpacks like Spigot and Fabric.
You may also want to have a look at our list of the most reliable VPS hosts for 2024 before making a final decision.

Gwen Rodgers

Gwen is a web developer and software engineer who loves to get lost in JavaScript (and a good book). She spends her free time teaching girls how to be coders, and doing yoga on her balcony in the sunshine.

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Worst hosting company I have ever used

They will not refund you if something goes wrong. The "support" team is not helpful in any way and they told me the problem was on my side. I moved all off the same plugins I use to another host and everything is working great now. Scalacube is the WORST and you should not waste your money here. The server is constantly going down and they claim there is nothing wrong. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY HERE! If 0 starts were possible that is what I would give them.

Kasey, USA
February 24, 2022

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Don´t rent

Absolutely terrible hosting service. I tried to rent a Minecraft server but no versions worked. Then i tried to write the to the support and tried to get a ticket but still got no help and i don´t even got a refund. So please don´t rent a server on their site.

Dominik Kieler, Germany
January 01, 2022

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FN Horrible

Canceled the damn thing after about a month. Then it freaking kept taking 20 bucks per month without my knowledge for 3 months. Lucky I saw it. No email. No response to my emails. Legit is the worst server ever. No one could even join it. Save your money. And never use this server host.

Mustafa, Australia
August 31, 2021

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Terrible Hardware

Purchased 32GB RAM. The server still lags unacceptably with only one player online as I have yet to announce the launch to anyone. Using 3 times the amount of RAM I'm using in the identical offline world with the same mods loaded. There is absolutely no way a heavily modded world could work with multiple players. All sales are final and hardware is awful. Taking my business elsewhere with better hardware. Also, the prices listed here are for the first month. Prices double after that.

Cody Winters, USA
August 21, 2021

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Horrendous

They say 1.5GB is sufficient for up to 20 connections. With 2 players only, and playing in the same general area, this server crashed 4 times within 2 hours. And their "all purchases are final" refund policy, despite not providing the advertised service, is ridiculous.

Mark, Canada
July 24, 2021

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Rubber banding like its run on a 20 year old computer

I first paid for a server to run some mods. Purchased a server based on the player base I was expecting and went on the higher end. Got an error saying I didn't have enough ram. Said okay, went up a size. Same error. Went up again, and still got the error message every now and then and the server would freeze and need to be restarted. In total, was charged $90 for 3 months, for a server that rubberbanded us back 10 seconds every 5 minutes. Changed the server to be just basic minecraft, no mods, the same amount of ram, and it happens just as bad on vanilla minecraft, if not worse. Definitely won't be using them for minecraft again. I used them for an ARK server that ran better than this for 1/3 the price.

Jeff Moore, USA
June 20, 2021

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Impossible to cancel

It is impossible to cancel a subscription. They're steps to cancel lead to non-existence links. and after I sent multiple messages requesting cancelation of service, I am still being charged. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS DECEPTIVE COMPANY

anonymus, USA
May 27, 2021

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Save your money

Bought the 6Gb package as an upgrade to my realm. Thinking it would become a lag-free experience for me and my THREE friends. ( 100 is the player cap on that pack) The server wouldn't load spawn for maybe 10 minutes and I was constantly getting "server is behind" close to 100 000 ms. It was unplayable. I reached out to support and waited a while for a response. A few days later I got a response saying I was getting a new server, Free of charge, cool I thought, must have been something wrong with the last one. No problem. The same issue with that server so I gave up on them and went back to my 1/3 the price realm. One month goes by and they have the guts to try to bill me for two servers

Realmftw, Sweden
April 09, 2021

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