I'll break up this review into several parts, it may be a lengthy review
Prices
The best way to put this is that the prices are fair. It's not super cheap, but it's not super expensive. The idea of standard and premium is great. Playing with friends? Go standard. Public server? Go premium. Public server doing great? Go dedicated. Host Blaze adjusts their prices to what you want, which is awesome. Most hosting companies are just after your wallet, but this one isn't. Granted, some companies have better prices. But what you get from the other companies is not anything close to what you get from Host Blaze. You get great quality for fair prices. I'd give Prices a 9 out of 10.
Performance
Oh man, here we go. This host has to have some of the best quality servers. Per say you get a 1 Gigabyte Standard server. Even with standard, that 1 Gig is like RAM from Heaven. When you have enough RAM to run, you're running beautifully. No lag, barely any lag spikes (Which may not even be the host itself), truly the best of the best. One thing I've noticed a lot of hosts do is everything is nice at the start, but then it starts getting laggy so you upgrade. Woohoo, no lag. For now. Later down the road, more and more upgrades are "required". This doesn't happen with Host Blaze.If you have sufficient RAM, you're good. It will stay lag free for a while (If more and more things get built, more RAM is required. What I'm saying is that this host takes months before an upgrade). The DDOS Protection is pretty nice, it will stop any normal attack. It would take a professional or something to actually do any damage. I had a server with around 45 plugins, about 8 huge buildings, and configured entities (Specifically flying mobs going on certain paths). With a premium 8 Gigabyte server, only half of the resources were used. And after some ticket I opened, Tim V cleaned up some files and updated everything and BAM! Using about 20% of the resources now. I think the RAM goes as low as half a Gig and as high as 32 Gigs. If you want quality, this place is great for it. I'd give Performance a 9.5 out of 10 (Would be a 10, however I've seen another host that was purely about quality. They went all the way up to 128 Gigs of RAM for dedicated servers!)
Support
Man o' man, is the support great. These guys are legendary for it! The website says that the average wait time for a ticket is 2 hours. OH MAN THAT'S FUNNY! I've gotten replies in 5 minutes before. You can be as nooby as can be, these guys will help you through anything. And they deserve more credit than what people give them. I mean, mostly 3 people answer tickets (They have other employees, but they're mainly for low priority. Not to mention that the big bosses intercept most of the tickets anyway). And I imagine that they get hundreds of tickets, dealing with God knows what kind of people. Live chat is online most of the time, and pretty useful. They do a great job in such little time, someone give these guys an award! Anyways, I'd give the Support a big fat 10 out of 10
Well, those are the main topics to review about. Overall, this host is one of the best. I highly suggest using them, you won't regret it.
I'll break up this review into several parts, it may be a lengthy review
Prices
The best way to put this is that the prices are fair. It's not super cheap, but it's not super expensive. The idea of standard and premium is great. Playing with friends? Go standard. Public server? Go premium. Public server doing great? Go dedicated. Host Blaze adjusts their prices to what you want, which is awesome. Most hosting companies are just after your wallet, but this one isn't. Granted, some companies have better prices. But what you get from the other companies is not anything close to what you get from Host Blaze. You get great quality for fair prices. I'd give Prices a 9 out of 10.
Performance
Oh man, here we go. This host has to have some of the best quality servers. Per say you get a 1 Gigabyte Standard server. Even with standard, that 1 Gig is like RAM from Heaven. When you have enough RAM to run, you're running beautifully. No lag, barely any lag spikes (Which may not even be the host itself), truly the best of the best. One thing I've noticed a lot of hosts do is everything is nice at the start, but then it starts getting laggy so you upgrade. Woohoo, no lag. For now. Later down the road, more and more upgrades are "required". This doesn't happen with Host Blaze.If you have sufficient RAM, you're good. It will stay lag free for a while (If more and more things get built, more RAM is required. What I'm saying is that this host takes months before an upgrade). The DDOS Protection is pretty nice, it will stop any normal attack. It would take a professional or something to actually do any damage. I had a server with around 45 plugins, about 8 huge buildings, and configured entities (Specifically flying mobs going on certain paths). With a premium 8 Gigabyte server, only half of the resources were used. And after some ticket I opened, Tim V cleaned up some files and updated everything and BAM! Using about 20% of the resources now. I think the RAM goes as low as half a Gig and as high as 32 Gigs. If you want quality, this place is great for it. I'd give Performance a 9.5 out of 10 (Would be a 10, however I've seen another host that was purely about quality. They went all the way up to 128 Gigs of RAM for dedicated servers!)
Support
Man o' man, is the support great. These guys are legendary for it! The website says that the average wait time for a ticket is 2 hours. OH MAN THAT'S FUNNY! I've gotten replies in 5 minutes before. You can be as nooby as can be, these guys will help you through anything. And they deserve more credit than what people give them. I mean, mostly 3 people answer tickets (They have other employees, but they're mainly for low priority. Not to mention that the big bosses intercept most of the tickets anyway). And I imagine that they get hundreds of tickets, dealing with God knows what kind of people. Live chat is online most of the time, and pretty useful. They do a great job in such little time, someone give these guys an award! Anyways, I'd give the Support a big fat 10 out of 10
Well, those are the main topics to review about. Overall, this host is one of the best. I highly suggest using them, you won't regret it.
Thank you so much for your extremely kind review! It's a pleasure to be serving you! Please let us know if you need anything!
Just resubbed to Hostblaze 2 days ago, our server has been down for over 8 hours and no tickets or emails have been responded too.
Same problems as we had 6 months ago, thought they might have gotten better sadly this is not the case..
Unfortunately, this was a freak issue with our standard datacenter(we don't have these types of issues with premium) where they unplugged the wrong servers. If you haven't yet been compensated for this, please be sure to submit a ticket so we can compensate you.
We've migrated our JAR file and content packs to use a unified 'custom.jar' profile for maximum parsing compatibility and 4x PermGen space allocation! Just name your jar 'custom.jar' and run that to take advantage of it!
Bait and switch prices? In your main forum post, you specify that your server price for a "standard" 6gb is $32, and your "premium" 6gb is $52. However, on your website, your price for a "standard" 6gb is $48, and "premium" 6gb server is $72. I was interested after reading your reviews, but after your price discrepancy, I'm not so sure about you guys. Care to explain the difference so I can make a decision if I want to use your hosting plan or not? The last thing I need is to get scammed.
Bait and switch prices? In your main forum post, you specify that your server price for a "standard" 6gb is $32, and your "premium" 6gb is $52. However, on your website, your price for a "standard" 6gb is $48, and "premium" 6gb server is $72. I was interested after reading your reviews, but after your price discrepancy, I'm not so sure about you guys. Care to explain the difference so I can make a decision if I want to use your hosting plan or not? The last thing I need is to get scammed.
We actually revamped our pricing yesterday because we decided to upgrade hardware to provide a better service instead of keeping our pricing at bargain-bin levels(you can check the waybackmachine to verify that it literally was yesterday). You can also check our thread to see the positive affirmations of our service.
I've PM'd you a promo code which you can use which should help with the pricing. We've now updated our thread so it matches.
Let us know if we can be of any further assistance!
I'll break up this review into several parts, it may be a lengthy review
Thank you so much for your extremely kind review! It's a pleasure to be serving you! Please let us know if you need anything!
Great! It's actually in beta now but it'll be released fully soon!
Just an update--now in open beta! Check it out at http://content.host-blaze.net/
Same problems as we had 6 months ago, thought they might have gotten better sadly this is not the case..
Unfortunately, this was a freak issue with our standard datacenter(we don't have these types of issues with premium) where they unplugged the wrong servers. If you haven't yet been compensated for this, please be sure to submit a ticket so we can compensate you.
Thanks so much for the kind words! Let us know if you need anything!
Take a look through our thread and you'll see reviews.
Just an update for those who have asked--we expect this to be launched within a week or two.
We actually revamped our pricing yesterday because we decided to upgrade hardware to provide a better service instead of keeping our pricing at bargain-bin levels(you can check the waybackmachine to verify that it literally was yesterday). You can also check our thread to see the positive affirmations of our service.
I've PM'd you a promo code which you can use which should help with the pricing. We've now updated our thread so it matches.
Let us know if we can be of any further assistance!