MCProHosting

What MCProHosting actually is

MCProHosting is one of the founding names of Minecraft server hosting — founded in 2011 by Matthew Salsamendi, run for a decade as MCProHosting, LLC out of Wyoming, USA, and known for fast deployment, a custom control panel, and support aimed at players rather than sysadmins. At its peak it marketed itself as the world's largest game server provider with a customer base in the hundreds of thousands. That independent era is over, and any honest review of this listing has to start there: in January 2022, MCProHosting was acquired by Marbis GmbH — the German company behind Nitrado — in the same buy-and-build wave that had already picked up Apex Hosting in December 2021. The FLEX Capital press release put the combined group at roughly 50 data centers (22 MCProHosting, 18 Apex, 10 Nitrado), about 190 employees, and EUR 40 million in sales, making it the largest game server hosting group in the world.

Today the mcprohosting.com homepage states it plainly: "We've merged with Apex Hosting" and "MCProHosting is Migrating to Apex Hosting — all servers are being switched over to Apex Hosting." The site footer carries Apex Hosting LLC's copyright, new orders are placed through the Apex platform (with a 25%-off first-invoice code), and existing customers manage their services through shared panels. FLEX's own portfolio notes describe migrating MCProHosting and Apex servers onto Nitrado's data centers to capture seven-figure cost savings. So the practical question for a buyer in 2026 is not "MCProHosting or Apex?" — it is "should I buy Apex Hosting, the brand MCProHosting now feeds into?"

That said, the product DNA is intact, and the merged offering is a serious Minecraft-first platform: Java and Bedrock support with a version switcher, one-click modpacks and custom JARs, full FTP access, unlimited NVMe SSD storage and bandwidth claims, DDoS protection, a free subdomain, instant setup, and 24/7 support. If you have seen MCProHosting recommended in an old forum thread, that recommendation now points at Apex hardware — the homepage advertises "state-of-the-art Ryzen servers" as part of the migration story.

Pricing: what you really pay

Historical MCProHosting pricing, as reviewed by TechRadar, was nine Minecraft-only plans from $7.99 to $99.99 per month: Steve at $7.99 (1 GB RAM, 25 slots), Villager at $11.99 (2 GB, 35 slots), Witch at $22.99 (4 GB, 70 slots), Enderman at $33.99 (6 GB, 100 slots, "Premium" management), Wither at $44.99 (8 GB, unlimited slots, "Ultimate" management), with all plans including unlimited storage, DDoS protection, and unrestricted file access. Three "One" plans covered 10+ supported games beyond Minecraft: One Lite at $24.99 (4 GB, 50 slots), One at $49.99 (8 GB, 75 slots), and One Pro at $74.99 (12 GB, unlimited slots). Other listings from the same era quote the range as $9–$100 per month for 1.5–32 GB of RAM, plus a seven-day free trial on the 2 GB Villager Trial plan — one of the few hosts that ever offered a real trial rather than a money-back promise.

The current merged Apex pricing is what you will actually pay. Per CNET/Yahoo's 2025 roundup: ten Minecraft plans plus a Proxy plan; the Proxy's 512 MB mini-server costs $1.88 for the first month ($2.50 after); the cheapest server plan is $6 for the first month, then $8 per month for 1–2 GB of RAM; the largest is $78 first month, then $104 per month for 32 GB with unlimited slots. Every plan includes unlimited storage space, unlimited player slots on the big tiers, worldwide server locations, and DDoS protection. The mcprohosting.com homepage advertises "starting at $5.99", and Asia-based servers reportedly start at $5 per month. Paid extras: a dedicated IP at $5 per month and a server-management upgrade at $15 per month where staff install and configure plugins, mods, and containers for you.

Two plan mechanics to understand before comparing. First, Apex splits Standard and Premium tiers: Standard runs DDR4 2133 MHz RAM and 3.2–4 GHz CPUs and does not include all nine locations, while Premium runs faster DDR4 2,400 MHz, 4.4–5 GHz CPUs, faster SSDs, unlimited slots, a MySQL database, and every location. Second, introductory pricing is the headline — the renewal jump from $6 to $8, or $78 to $104, is the number to budget for.

Performance & infrastructure

The infrastructure story is group-scale. At acquisition the combined Marbis/Nitrado group ran or rented capacity across 50 data centers on five continents, with Nitrado (founded 2001 in Karlsruhe, Germany) providing bare-metal infrastructure to the US brands and serving customers in over 100 countries. The merged Apex platform lists nine worldwide server locations — multiple US sites, four across Europe, plus Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia coverage in the historical MCProHosting map — and the migration push is toward Nitrado-operated data centers and newer Ryzen hardware.

Protection is a headline feature: DDoS mitigation on every plan, with MCProHosting historically partnering with Cloudflare for network-level filtering, plus standard game-server firewalls. Storage is NVMe SSD on the current plans with "unlimited" storage and bandwidth claims on Minecraft tiers — treat "unlimited" as fair-use marketing language rather than a physics-free guarantee, which is standard industry behaviour but worth stating.

We have not benchmarked this platform — our own sysbench/fio/iperf3 programme (/benchmarks) covers European compute hosts, not game panels — and we found no independent latency or tick-rate measurements. Editorial judgment: for Minecraft, proximity to players dominates; the location choice matters more than the hardware generation, and both the old MCPro map and the current Apex map give reasonable global coverage. The move to Ryzen hardware and Nitrado infrastructure is, on paper, a modernisation of a fleet that dated back years.

Where it falls short

The brand is being retired. If you sign up expecting MCProHosting as a standalone company, you are buying Apex Hosting under a legacy banner, and your long-term experience depends on the migration continuing smoothly. Mergers of control panels, billing systems, and support queues are where small annoyances breed; FLEX's own summary frames the brands as consolidation plays.

No published uptime SLA. For all the "99.99%" style language that game hosts use, we could not find a credit-backed service level agreement on MCProHosting's pages. Support is advertised 24/7 and historically rated well (the acquisition press cited strong customer satisfaction scores), but response-time guarantees tied to remedies are absent.

Spec transparency is game-host standard, which is to say thin. RAM and slots are precise; CPU allocation per plan, storage I/O, and network limits are marketing adjectives ("unlimited", "blazing fast"). Our rubric weights spec transparency at 20%, and listings like this one lose points there.

Finally, the marketing history deserves scepticism. "World's largest" claims and customer counts (old listings cite 900,000+ satisfied customers; our database carried 25,000+) cannot be verified from public filings, and we treat both as unconfirmed. The one hard number we have is the acquisition-era group structure from FLEX Capital's press materials.

Who should pick this

Honestly: most new buyers should shortlist the merged Apex Hosting platform directly rather than arrive through the MCProHosting banner — same product, clearer identity, current pricing. If you are a Minecraft community (survival servers, minigame networks, modded packs) that wants one-click modpacks, a player-friendly panel, and 24/7 human support without touching Linux, the Apex/MCPro lineage remains one of the most polished options in the category.

Existing MCProHosting customers have little reason to flee: the migration to Apex brings newer hardware and more features, and the group behind it (Nitrado/Marbis) is the largest game hosting operator in the world with genuine infrastructure depth.

We would not pick this for: buyers who want a credit-backed SLA, teams needing bare-metal control or non-game workloads, players on a tight budget (entry VPS-style game hosts undercut these prices), or anyone philosophically opposed to consolidation — you are buying into the Nitrado group either way.

Key takeaways

• MCProHosting (founded 2011 by Matthew Salsamendi, Wyoming, USA) is no longer independent: acquired by Marbis/Nitrado in January 2022 alongside Apex Hosting, and now merging into the Apex platform.
• New orders and migrations go through Apex Hosting — mcprohosting.com advertises "starting at $5.99" and a 25% first-invoice discount on the Apex platform.
• Plan economics (merged platform): entry around $6–$8/month for 1–2 GB RAM, up to $104/month for 32 GB; unlimited storage/slots claimed; DDoS protection included; dedicated IP +$5, managed setup +$15/month.
• Global coverage: nine worldwide locations on the Apex platform (US, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Australia historically); group operates across ~50 data centers.
• No published credit-backed SLA; per-plan CPU/storage specifics are marketing adjectives; customer-count claims are unverifiable.
• Sensible pick for Minecraft communities wanting managed, mod-friendly hosting; better to evaluate Apex Hosting directly than the legacy brand.

Sources

• https://mcprohosting.com/
• http://flex.capital/en/news/flex-portfolio-company-marbis-nitrado-buys-mcprohosting
• https://www.flex.capital/en/news/flex-portfolio-company-nitrado-buys-apex-hosting
• https://www.techradar.com/reviews/mcprohosting
• https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/best-minecraft-server-hosting-2025-194400100.html
• https://techquintal.com/best-minecraft-hosting-services
• https://apexminecrafthosting.com/nitrado-acquires-apex-hosting