Astroworld vs ScalaCube
ScalaCube offers budget-friendly Minecraft hosting with a built-in auto-installer. Here is how their service compares to Astroworld.
Side by Side
| What differs | Astroworld | ScalaCube |
|---|---|---|
| Price it starts at | €6.99/mo on 24 months, €8.49 on one | From ~$2.50/GB/mo |
| What you are buying | Fixed plan, 7 tiers | Per GB of RAM, or per player slot |
| vCPU | 2 vCPU to 18 vCPU | Not stated per plan |
| Memory | 4 GB to 96 GB | Starts at 768 MB |
| Storage | NVMe as the standard | SSD |
| Control panel | Pterodactyl | Their own web panel |
| Software and versions | 7 softwares, 16 versions | Modpack and plugin auto-installer, limited Java version control |
| DDoS protection | Every plan | Included, basic |
| Locations | 9: 2 EU, 3 US, 3 Asia, 1 AU | US and EU |
| Backups | 1 per 7 days free, €1.89/mo for daily | Manual backups |
| Support | Ticket and email | Ticket and knowledge base |
Right-hand column: what that host publishes. It changes without telling us. Middle column: read from our own price list.
Below the floor of our own table
Their entry tier is 768 MB, which is under the bottom of the table we advise from: our lowest row opens at 2-4 GB and our smallest plan holds 4 GB, 5.3 times theirs. That is not a criticism of them, it is a statement about what that tier is for: a world for two people, a lobby, something to leave running. Their auto-installer for modpacks and plugins is the other half of the same idea, and for somebody who wants a server without learning what a jar is, both are the right answer. Where it stops working is the unstated vCPU: if nothing on the page says how much processor comes with those megabytes, nothing on the page tells you what tick rate to expect either.
The memory guide has those rows in full.
Questions people ask before switching
Do you auto-install plugins?
No, you upload the jar yourself and our plugin guide covers the six steps. We do offer a paid setup service if you would rather hand it over.
Can I choose the Java version?
Yes, through the panel, and it matters more than people expect: the Minecraft version you picked at checkout decides which Java the server has to start with.
What is the smallest server worth paying for?
One that clears the bottom row of our own memory table. Below that a server runs, but it spends its time garbage collecting instead of ticking.
Summary
For the cheapest possible server that somebody else sets up, they are hard to beat and we are not trying to be. What we sell is the opposite trade: a stated number of cores, a stated amount of memory, NVMe underneath and more regions to put it in, priced accordingly.
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Our side of every table on this page is read from the price list at build time.