Don’t know if this Reddit is the best place to ask this but here we go.
I’m the guy in my friends group that always hosts servers for us whenever we want to play some games where dedicated servers are just better.
Sometime in December we wanted to play Ark and I’ve done many servers for Ark in the past but I’m kinda wondering if it’s cheaper to tun a dedicated computer 24/7 just for the server or if it’s better to pick a hosting service?
Nitrado would cost 12€ for 30 days. Is self hosting cheaper?
It usually depends on the circumstances. I have a dedicated server rented from Hetzner which has some unused resources anyways, so I tend to just run our gameservers on that. But if you just want a fast and hassle free solution or don’t have spare resources Nitrado is pretty good.