BisectHosting review

Should you buy from BisectHosting?

BisectHosting suits a group that changes games or wants modpacks on one plan, and suits a cautious first-time buyer less well.

No current Minecraft price could be read

BisectHosting's Minecraft page (8 Nov 2026, USD selected) showed placeholders in every price position: "Monthly ... / GB", "Quarterly ... / GB", "Semi-annually ... / GB", "Annually ... / GB" and "STARTING AT ... / MONTH" for BisectOne. The home page and the game cards for Palworld, Valheim, Hytale and others also read "Starting at ...". The page descriptions state headline prices the visible pages do not show: "starting at just $2.99/month" on the home page and "from $11.99" for Palworld. Those are BisectHosting's figures, unconfirmed against a plan.

Other sites quote prices, and they disagree on the unit, which is why none is used here as a substitute:

The 90-day refund in Cybrancee's comparison is Cybrancee's own, and its BisectHosting column says 3 days. The cheapest game server hosting guide carries prices only where they could be read.

How to get the real price before paying:

1. Open the Minecraft page in a normal browser, so the script fills the amounts, and choose your currency.
2. Answer the plan picker or select your RAM, then read the per-GB figure for each billing cycle.
3. Continue to the final order screen and record the total with tax. The Terms say applicable taxes are added at checkout. A separate EU VAT clause names "Venture Node" and not BisectHosting, so treat VAT as unconfirmed until the order screen shows it.
4. Note whether the 10%, 15% or 20% badge applies to renewals, which the page does not say. The Sales contact in the site menu can answer that in writing.

What the plans include

BisectHosting's Minecraft page describes a per-GB structure and a bundled add-on tier.

• Per-GB Minecraft plans across four billing cycles, with badges of "10% OFF", "15% OFF" and "20% OFF" on the longer ones.
• BisectOne, "110+ games, all in one plan", with "2 Instance Slots" and "2 Backup Slots", each with a "40GB shared storage pool".
• An add-on tier with more instance and backup slots, more storage and temporary RAM boosting. Its price is also blank, and it sits oddly beside the BisectOne page, which says "no confusing add-ons, hidden fees, or upsells".

The hardware list includes "Unlimited Disk Space", while BisectOne lists a 40 GB shared pool. The page does not reconcile the two, so check what your files count against. It also describes backups as "seven days" in one place and "3 Days of Previous Backups" in another.

What BisectHosting says about CPU, storage and locations

BisectHosting names no CPU model. Its hardware page says "80% of our infrastructure uses modern Ryzen CPUs" and that BisectOne plans "can access up to 8 vCores", managed for "fair usage" and not by fixed caps. Provisioning picks your node, and the pages read offer no CPU choice. The Minecraft page says all servers "run on NVMe SSDs" and includes DDoS protection "free of charge", with no capacity figure.

It offers "21 Worldwide Locations", free swapping between them, and a notice that some are out of stock, with a waitlist or a later transfer. FadedServers, a competitor, reports Sydney out of stock with a waitlist when it checked. Cities are not listed in the page text, so check your city in the selector and compare it with the latency by region page.

The refund: 3 days for new customers, with conditions

BisectHosting's Terms of Service (last updated 11 August 2026) give a "3-Day Money-Back Guarantee": a new customer, "or you're trying a new type of service for the first time", is eligible for "a 72-hour (3-day) money-back guarantee on most services" and must "contact our support team within 3 days of activation".

For someone renting a server, those terms come down to a few practical points:

• Asking is the step that counts. Closing the server gets you nothing back on its own, because "Cancellations do not trigger automatic refunds".
• Paid work is spent once it is done. Setup, BisectBoost and modpack installation fees are not returned after the work is performed. Domains, gift cards, account credit and PaysafeCard payments are outside the guarantee too.
• You may get credit in place of cash. Refunds go "to the original payment method, but may be provided as account credit if needed", and credit has no cash value, so ask which you will receive.
• A long billing cycle is a commitment after day three. "We do not offer prorated refunds for unused time", apart from discretionary exceptions, so a year abandoned in week two stays paid for.
• Renewals run on a sliding scale. Ask within one day of renewal for a full refund, or within three days for 50%. After that you get nothing, unless UK or EU consumer law requires more. A reminder before the renewal date is worth setting.
• EU and UK buyers have longer. Requests within 14 days are honoured under consumer law, though "you may be charged for the portion of service already provided".
• Contact support before your bank. A chargeback without contacting support first "constitutes a violation of these Terms", and an invalid one can leave you liable for costs.
• Price rises come with notice. A base-price increase needs at least 30 days' notice.

How to leave, and what happens if you stop paying

Leaving BisectHosting means saving your files first, because termination can delete them. Billing is prepaid. Invoices appear at least 7 days before the due date. If unpaid, the service "will be suspended after 3 days and terminated (with data deleted) after 7 days", and recovery after that is "not guaranteed and may incur additional fees".

1. Download the world from the panel and keep a copy off the host. The Terms call backups "best-effort" and allow large logs, cache files and archives to be left out, so open your copy and confirm the world is in it before you close anything.
2. Cancel using the Help Center steps. You can cancel immediately "(within 24 hours)" or at the end of the billing cycle. Choose the end of the cycle if you still want the time you paid for.
3. If you are inside a refund window, contact support, since cancelling alone returns nothing.

Support, uptime promise and AI actions

BisectHosting lists 24/7/365 live chat and tickets, and claims answers "in an average 15 minutes". That claim has not been checked. The Service Level Agreement targets 99.97% monthly uptime per node; a claim must be made within 5 days and earns one day of service per hour of qualifying downtime, capped at 30 days. It is a due-date extension and not cash back.

The Terms also cover Biko, an assistant that can change files and backups, and treat its actions as yours, so make a backup first.

What the AUP says about bots, heavy use and testing

BisectHosting's Acceptable Use Policy (29 April 2026) has no benchmarking clause, so anyone planning a load test on a rented server has to ask first. The phrase that matters is a ban on "unauthorized bots", listed under "Misuse of Services" beside crypto mining and spam. The policy does not define the term, so a client that joins your own server to simulate players may or may not count. It says what to do in that position: "If you are unsure whether something is permitted, please contact us before proceeding."

On a VPS or dedicated server, attack and scanning software needs permission, and the policy names port scanners and penetration testing tools specifically, so even a scan of your own machine is a question for support. Sustained load is the bigger risk for a game server: you may not "overburden" a server "whether intentional or otherwise", and while brief CPU spikes are expected, "persistent overuse may lead to throttling or suspension". A stress test that holds the CPU high for hours sits closer to that line than normal play does. Because "Deny refunds" is a listed enforcement action, a policy breach during the refund window could also cost you the refund. Separately, the Terms allow termination if you "act abusively toward our staff or damage our reputation", which is broad. Silence on benchmarking is not permission, and only BisectHosting can close that gap in writing.

Honest downsides

• No price could be read, so nothing here helps with budgeting.
• The refund is 3 days, renewal refunds drop to 50% after day one, and a refund may arrive as credit.
• The CPU is unnamed, and storage and backup figures conflict on the same page.
• Some of the 21 locations may be out of stock.
• Paid modpack installation is non-refundable once done, and whether the one-click installer counts is unconfirmed.

What the planned protocol would check on BisectHosting

The planned protocol would, only after written permission covering any automated player client and with a paid plan, record the CPU a location reports, tick time under a defined load and RAM growth on a heavy pack such as ATM10. It would also read the Palworld and Hytale plan prices at checkout. Nothing has been bought or run, and the test rig page describes the setup. Permission remains unresolved.

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