Apex Minecraft Hosting Review – Everything To Know Before Buying an Apex Minecraft Server

Hey everyone and welcome back to the breakdown today we’re going to be reviewing apex minecraft hosting now right up front i want to address the elephant in the room we have for a very long time had a long-standing partnership with apex now with that i’m trying to keep this review as fair and

Evenly and honest and open as possible but that is something i wanted to disclose up front we’ve got other server hosts coming up in the next few weeks and months i just wanted to start with apex and then move on to the other silver host for example scala cube mc pro

Hosting all those they are all coming but we’re starting out with apex minecraft hosting today all of the other server hosts will be compared on these same categories today we’re going to be comparing ease of use user guides support mod pack support quality of hardware price and then we’re gonna be going over

Additional features that you might find with apex and then we’re gonna be talking about the downsides why you shouldn’t go with apex minecraft hosting and then we’re gonna be talking about the final verdict and what you should do and what you should go with in the end so that’s what we’re gonna be

Talking about it’s gonna be a very in-depth sort of review going over all of these different steps it’s one of the most in-depth videos i’ve done in a while so um without any further ado let’s go ahead and jump right on into it the first category we’re going to be looking

At is ease of use now this encompasses a few things first things first is actually the ease of setting up and purchasing the server at apex the server can be set up in under five minutes that’s it just five minutes that’s all you need to set

Up the server and get it up and running and that includes things like mod packs paper adding plugins to your server with paper stuff like that so if you want to set up a modpack which we’re going to talk more about modpack support later but it can be done in that five minute

Time frame as well as setting up a paper server setting up a bucket server or forward server or just a vanilla minecraft server it can all be done in under five minutes with apex very quickly and very easily now once you’ve purchased your server got your server set up the second part

Of ease of use is then the management side of your server keeping your server running what if you want to add those plugins what if you want to add custom mods what if you want to change the mods in the mod pack the second part of ease of use involves all

Of that and actually managing the server after it’s live so how easy is apex demand as a server after it’s live well apex is a custom version of the multicraft control panel that makes finding the console restarting the server stopping the server starting the server even doing things like finding logs

Changing server versions if you want to update your server it’s very very easy to do adding in mods adding in plugins via their ftp that’s built right into the panel all of that stuff apex makes setting up and running your server very very easily so the running part of

Your server is also very very easy to do with apex the ftp that’s built in by the way to the control panel is in many ways better than filezilla so like you know i’ve used files in the past on the channel now if i was doing an apex specific video i would

Just use the one that’s on their website unless you’re having to transfer thousands of files if you just need to go in like me most of the time and grab one file make one change and then re-upload that change that is super super easy to do from the apex panel

You don’t have to worry about opening up another program you do it all via your web browser it’s really really good so as far as ease of use goes setting up the server in under five minutes and then all of the back-end management features that allow for easy updating

Easy plug-in management easy log finding easy stopping and restarting clear console you know being able to easily see the console with color codes you know errors are going to show up in red things like that with all of that apex gets a 5 out of 5

Out of ease of use so after ease of use we have user guides now some people would say that this isn’t a fair comparison in some ways or that this is a useless category but in my opinion the amount of user guides and the amount

Of you know help that you can find to run your server is important and on apex they have tons of different user guides that you can use and best of all with that custom multicraft panel that i talked about they are right there on the page of the

Website that you’re looking at so right on the left hand side you will see these different user guides and they change depending on where you are if you’re in the console they’re going to be different than if you’re on the main page they’re going to be different if you’re

In the ftp page then if you’re on you know like the chat page or something like that or the scheduled task page all of that different stuff is going to be well different depending on where you’re at there are tons of user guides at apex they’re great resources to go to a lot

Of them have videos all of them have a great text you know sort of format which i personally a lot of times prefer video is great and i know we do video here but that’s why we also have the text articles for pretty much everything we do because a

Lot of times it’s easier to follow along in a text format so because of all these guides using apex can actually be a lot easier than other host reviews in the past because where other hosts you have to you know reach out to their support and all that stuff with apex a

Lot of times before you even go to reach out to the support you’re like hey here’s the issue it’s already solved and you’re done before you know even having to think about it so that’s what’s great about apex that’s one thing that i like and that’s why user guides are actually

A big point for me in reviews but truthfully they’re not as big of a point as support and that is one thing that apex does pretty well so if there’s anything that apex does better than anybody else truthfully it is their support to test this i’m actually going to

Live in this video there will be not another jump cut until after this section transfer into game right now in the game excuse me into the web browser here this is apex website now i am going to go ahead and hide my face cam because down here in the bottom right

You see this little support icon you can click on that it’s going to open up their live chat now we are in an incognito browser here right i’ve not done anything else i’m going to use a random username so i’m going to be todd for example at this

And then i guess for my email we can do like todd glassley i don’t know at gmail.com and then the question is hey i was wondering if you supported skye factory for servers and question mark so choose department this is going to be a technical support question and start

The chat now immediately we are connected right in to a support agent here we’ve got eve now this is 100 live i’m not doing any jump cuts right so we’ll go ahead and ask our question again hey i was wondering if you support oh they’re already typing and we do

Yes now i’m gonna ask that was fast are you a bot so let’s see that was fast are you a bot and i’m curious right let’s go ahead and see see if it’s a real live person or a box because it was instant and

Boom i get that a lot i get that a lot and i actually did do a jump cut there because it kind of freaked me out there i know it’s not a button that was like almost a bot response but they aren’t a bot the apex live support

Are all real people and uh but no anyone here that is a bot is very clearly tagged as a bot if we have an actual name we’re people and that’s true everyone at apex like you can go on apex discord it’s the other support staff

24 hours a day seven days a week apex has support and you saw how fast that was i mean we contacted them at 11 40. boom that was faster you bought and then they immediately responded all within the same minute there with real responses and it actually took

A minute to type up this response so yeah that’s awesome stuff awesome thank you so much so there we go that was um you know a very easy and quick test of apex’s live support so now we can go ahead and transition back to the face cam

But there you go i don’t think there’s any denying that a real person support that quickly and that fast is gonna be able to get done at any other minecraft server host going into this video i actually did look some of the other top hosts out there tested their support

And usually you’re waiting at least three four minutes for a response that’s great but at apex this is right now 11 o’clock 11 42 on a saturday so peak day usually instant support right away because apex prize themselves in that and that is one thing that i love about

Apex whenever we’ve ever had an issue apex is right there with support to help you out whether it’s the main support staff or even getting a cis admin ahead you know someone who’s kind of the head of the you know support technical support side of things

In there to take a look at a problem they are there very very quickly and i cannot stress enough how amazing that is at apex and because of that five out of five this is truly the bar in my opinion for support in the minecraft industry if someone doesn’t beat that then

They’re not gonna get a five out of five when it comes to support now i feel like all i’ve done so far is kind of like gush on how amazing apex is but they’re not all perfect and one of the things i wanted to mention was the quality of hardware

Now there’s one area that he picks those through some points it is here or it’s the transparency specifically of the hardware right so quantity of hardware at apex from what i’ve been able to see is about on par the rest of the industry but they’re not too transparent about it so

I did reach out to their live chat support the same one you saw right there but earlier i did reached out to them and asked what kind of cpus they run on their servers because cpu has become more important specifically on minecraft version 1.13 to minecraft version 1.15.2 1.16 is less cpu

Dependent but it’s still important so i wanted to see what kind of cpus that they had at apex well truthfully you can’t find this information without reaching out to their live support and kind of pushing a little bit but i was able to get these five different cpus

They’re going to be different depending on the data center that you’re hosted in right different data centers are going to have different cpus and that’s just kind of how it is so we have xenon e5 2620 v3 we have the xenon e5 1650 v4 and then we have the

Xeon e5 2650 v2 and then we have the epic 732 p1 and then we also have a the ryzen 7 3800 x so that’s a lot of cpus there we’ll try to list them on the screen maybe or something like that maybe over there i don’t know but we’ll

List them on the screen so you can kind of see that list of what those five cpus are but overall that is what the cpu setup is at apex but again it’s kind of hard to find exactly what it is and you won’t know what cpu you’re on

When you purchase with apex now you can reach out to their live chat support and they can probably give you that information however again it’s not something that’s easily findable and easy to disclose now one thing i do want to note is that every single server at apex is set up on

Hardware monitors and if one stock box starts performing badly using all the cpu using too much ram all of that stuff they are there looking at it usually with a sys admin right away within minutes to see what the issue is and get it solved and

If needed they will split that box up they’ll move you to another server something like that to make sure your performance stays great stays good and stays up like high-end throughout everything in your entire experience with apex i’ve actually seen this happen before apex move players to new servers

As a server for example goes out of whack right so at minecraft server hosting there’s multiple servers on the box you’re on let’s say server a that’s not your server starts going crazy and server b which is your server starts kind of getting eaten by the over performance of

That server they will move you to another server to make sure that both you and the original player have a good server experience and in order to know when to do that they have all these different monitors set up i’ve actually seen it happen before where they have all these different

Monitors and everything like that it’s really really cool and it allows them to make sure that they never overstuff boxes and things like that apexes prides themselves in having everybody having a great high performance experience but again the transparency of that hardware does knock them down a few points here

To probably a 4 or 4.5 score we’ll go ahead and say four there because again it’s it’s you know the not knowing exactly what you’re gonna be on unless you reach out to support can be an issue now moving on from there let’s talk about mod pack support and

This is another area where apex actually does shine and they have over mod packs currently at the time i’m recording this video available on apex and that number is only going up as more mod packs came up come out more popular mod packs they are added to

This list and they’re constantly kept up to date there’s actually someone at apex who works on this pretty much full time this is one of their main duties is to keep the modpacks up to date make sure they’re working test them on servers things like that to make sure that all

The modpacks are working fully all the time so that is a really really big deal to apex and something that i am you know love about promoting apex in like the other videos is the fact that i know if you want a modpack server they are the place to go look check it

Out and get it done so from ftb packs to standalone packs like rl craft and sky factory ford even the technic mod packs right like you know all the some of the more obscure technic mod packs are even listed on apex so that’s pretty cool stuff and they’re all very easy one

Click setup you just go in your launcher click on the one that you want click ok and you’re done you’re set up on that modpack you just launch it up via the launcher and there you go so awesome stuff there very very easy to use my packs very very easy to set up

Mod packs and huge huge huge numbers of modpacks supported from there we’re going to move on to price now at apex you’re going to pay 5.99 per month for a one gigabyte server however you do get a discount per gigabyte as you purchase more right purchase more gigabytes so most people i would

Recommend getting a four gigabyte server that’s going to give you a plenty of headroom you’re gonna be able to run mod packs on it and you’re gonna have to be able to have a few different players on there you know probably 10 15 players on a four gigabyte server even with

Most mod packs out there that’s going to cost you 19.99 per month and again you’re going to be lag free no matter what with about 10 players on most mod packs now this pricing is actually standard you know mc pro hosting compares a lot of the other hosting providers out there

Compare to apex’s pricing down to the dot right down to like the exact same amount and the discount you get as you purchase more is actually a little bit less at apex from what i’ve seen which surprised me truthfully i’ve always heard from you know the audience here that

Apex is a more premium server host truthfully i think that’s justifiable with their you know their support and the fact they don’t over stuff servers and stuff like that but overall that’s what i’ve heard and i was expecting this to be the case when i looked at other you know server hosting providers

Now they’re not a budget host by any means they’re not the cheapest out there so you’re not gonna be able to you know pay like two dollars a gigabyte but what you do pay for i think the quality comes through on the back end which is very interesting to me and i’m curious

If that’s gonna be the same when i go to you know some of the other hosts and do in-depth reviews of them but we also have a 25 discounted apex for your first month so if you use the code the breakdown listed in the description down below you’ll be able to get 25

Off your first month with apex minecraft hosting give it a try to discounted rate before you commit to that full monthly rate i’m also going to try to get discount codes for all the other hosts we review should be possible but we’re going to see some might not be on board but i’m

Going to try my best to do that so if there’s another host as the more reviews come out maybe you’ll be able to get a discount at those as well so those are kind of our main categories with apex but i wanted to mention a few additional features

And we kind of mentioned these loosely earlier but i want to mention them again one is the multi-craft control panel being truly custom like you won’t find apex’s control panel at any other server host out there it’s easy to use it’s well designed and it works it’s lag free never wait on

Loading on that on the apex panel never have any issues with cracks things like that it’s just very very lag free very very high you know up time never had any problems with it and then on top of that we have the ftp that’s built into that

Panel and that ftp again was mentioned earlier but it is truly amazing to not have to download a third-party application to simply upload a plug-in or download a config and make that con you know do some changing that config change some text whatever and then upload that config again

To not have to use a third party tool to do that is really really cool and something that i love that apex has and that it’s built in even that ftp control panel by the way is custom optimized and completely 100 you know built from the ground up sort

Of a scenario to make sure it’s lag free and perform as well on your browser on top of that apex does have those guides that are really really good and you know if you have any issues like with the ftp control panel you can figure out how to

Log in or how to upload something or whatever they have in-depth guides for it you know how to read the console they have in-depth guides for it how to change your server version they have in-depth guides for it all linked right there in that panel so really really truly incredible

Last but not least i do want to mention this one more time apex does not oversell those budget hosts that i mentioned that are selling two gigabytes for a dollar for example those server hosts a lot of times over sell and just assume that not all the gigabytes they sell in a box

Are going to be used so they can oversell that box they the back end server has 32 gigabytes they might even sell 48 gigabytes in that server assuming they’re not all going to be used apex does not do that at all they pride themselves in having a lag

Free experience so much so if you’re having issues if you’re causing lag they’ll move you around they’ll move you to another box to make sure you have enough headroom and make sure that there is no lag going on on your server so that is something i wanted to stress

Again and while they have that you know they’re not super upfront about the hardware they make sure the hardware is lag free and that your server is lag free on the hardware that you get so what are the downsides of apex well mostly again it’s the transparency of hardware

That i you know mentioned there while they do try to keep the lag down you still don’t know exactly what hardware you’re on unless you reach out to the support and ask then they’ll be able to tell you but still there’s not much you can do about

That another downside of apex is the price again they’re right in the middle kind of in line with mc pro hosting and a lot of the other popular server hosts out there but they’re not by any means a cheap cheap host they’re also not the most expensive host

I’ve seen by the way so that’s something to note as well but you have to realize and ask what you’re getting paid for so they’re not a budget host but they’re not the most expensive but you’re getting great support and great uptime from that so it’s kind

Of one of those things you have to trade you know for that whereas with a budget host you’re probably gonna get bad support bad hardware or both so yeah that’s kind of the thing there you’re trading that budget host and getting it paying a higher price for

A higher quality product which i can very very very confidently say so what is the final verdict well in closing i’m gonna have to give apex what 4.75 pickaxes out of five that’s a high score i know and you might say this is the biased review dislike unsub

I’m out by screw you nick and i get it but the truth of the matter is i have looked and looked for years and let me tell you the story a few years ago we looked around we were trying to see if there was any other minecraft server host out

There that we could use other than apex we found a few um i’ll name names here we we found game servers which was one we tried for a little while and actually promoted here on the channel for a little while their quality of back end and and their user

Management and their ease of use was just horrible i mean bad the server quality wasn’t that bad once you got a server but managing that server was nearly impossible then we tried shockbyte the issue at shockbyte was the support also it was kind of weird like their back end was kind of

Very generic in my opinion at the time i don’t know if that’s changed since then but the support at shock by for us was horrible i’ll be doing reviews by the way of both of these companies companies in the coming months but when we tried them they weren’t good

We came back to apex because truthfully apex has always been incredible i started working with apex originally back in 2014 one year after they were founded almost to the day and since then we have worked together in some capacity and truthfully i’ve looked and looked and looked and looked

And i’m constantly looking at this industry i’m literally like we run a network minecraft server with hundreds of players we are constantly looking at the server host out there we’re constantly looking at the different things that happen and we keep saying apex is the best because they just keep proving it to us

You know every time someone else comes out with something new apex is right there to answer it and do it better so anyway that is kind of the final verdict here so should you get a server with apex in our opinion they truly are the best um

Like i said after less than three months of trying these other server hosts we were back with apex and we were back working with them and since then we’ve never had any lag that’s apex has falled um we have had lag on breakdown craft but uh

That’d be my fault not apex is there so yeah anyway that is the thing lag on our servers has always been caused by plug-ins or something we’ve done not by apex’s own hardware and if there was an issue on our servers they were always there to tell us for

Example we did have a plug-in run awry and shoot our cpu or usage to 100 with in about five minutes we were on you know with apex saying hey what’s this issue we’ve noticed this is happening this could be the uh you know the plug-in that it could be we’re gonna keep

Monitoring let’s figure it out and sure enough we did so that’s something that apex is able to do and a lot of other server hosts won’t do i’ve seen server host have plugins go awry and they actually just cut your server off and say hey figure this out

Once you figured it out let us know we’ll reactivate your account so the fact that apex is willing to you know help you solve the issue that’s really cool stuff but nevertheless there you have it if you have any questions let us know in the comment section down below

However apex’s support team go test them because they’re going to be the best place to answer in the apex minecraft hosting questions you have their information is probably more up to date than what i have and all that stuff so while i am willing to you know answer

Questions in the comment section down below apex’s live chat it’s going to be much much better but thank you all so much for watching give the video a thumbs up subscribe the channel for more awesome content use our discount code the breakdown for 25 off your first month at apex all that

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