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$4/mo

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Vintage Story

Vintage Story

$8/mo

For the world you keep coming back to.

Hytale

Hytale

$12/mo

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Honest comparison · Budget tier

Lagless vs Shockbyte.

Shockbyte's been around a while. Lagless is built for the next decade.

Shockbyte has been around a long time and supports a lot of games (Minecraft, Rust, ARK, Valheim, etc.). The pricing is competitive at the budget end. The reviews are mixed — some users have great experiences for years, others complain about TPS issues and slow ticket queues. The hardware story isn't a marketing focus, which usually means it's not the strong point.

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The differences that actually matter.

Shockbyte

$2–4/GB depending on plan

  • Hardware specs are not prominently disclosed (usually means older silicon)
  • Mixed support reputation — long ticket queues during peak times
  • TPS performance complaints are common in modpack subreddits
  • Multi-game focus means Minecraft isn't the priority

Lagless

Flat $2/GB · One hardware tier · No surprises

  • AMD Ryzen 9950X (5.7GHz boost) on every plan — no Budget tier with worse silicon
  • DDR5-6000 ECC RAM and 7GB/s NVMe — same gear whether you pay $4 or $128
  • Flat $2/GB pricing — one tier, no decoy plans
  • We don't oversell our boxes — fewer servers per host than budget tiers
  • Live-chat support from people who actually play these games

When Shockbyte makes sense

Honestly, here's where they're a reasonable pick:

Players hosting multiple games on one bill, or running cheap vanilla servers where performance ceiling doesn't matter.

Where they're decent

  • Wide game support (not just Minecraft)
  • Competitive entry-level pricing
  • Established uptime track record
  • Multiple plan options for different budgets

When Lagless makes sense

We're not for everyone. Here's our actual customer:

Players who want a host that's specifically built for game servers, not a general-purpose hosting company that does games on the side.

Switching from Shockbyte?

Bring your world. We'll handle the rest.

SFTP your existing world folder over. Your save, your players, your modpack — all portable. Support will walk you through it if you want a hand. The 48-hour trial is plenty to verify it works before you cancel anywhere else.

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FAQ

Switching from Shockbyte

Honest answer: only if your current host is failing you. If your current setup runs smoothly with no TPS drops, no support issues, and no surprise charges, switching just for $/GB savings rarely justifies the friction. If any of those are pain points, the 48-hour Lagless trial is risk-free — try it on your modpack, if it's not better, walk.
SFTP your world folder over. Minecraft saves are portable — they don't care which host they came from. Stop your current server, download the world directory, upload it to Lagless, restart. Your players, your inventory, your builds — all intact. Support will walk you through it if you'd rather not solo it.
You walk. The 48-hour trial is no-credit-card, so there's nothing to refund and no auto-conversion to fight. If your modpack runs better on your current host, that's the answer — keep what works. We'd rather lose 30% of trials to honest "it's fine where I am" than chase customers who shouldn't have signed up.
No. Your modpack files, server.properties, plugins folder, datapacks, ops list — all portable via SFTP. We can run the same loader version your current host runs, so the migration is byte-for-byte if you want it that way.

Stop comparing. Start playing.

Free for 48 hours. No credit card. If we're not better than Shockbyte for what you actually do, you walk.

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