Neuron Hosting – An early venture

Please be aware, this was almost 8 years ago so this article is a little bit short and vague as my memory of it is no longer perfect. Do not hesitate to email if you have any questions. 

NeuronHosting

It was my second year of High School and I was about 17 at the time. NeuronHosting was my second project involving server hosting. It provided Minecraft server hosting using MCraft and WHMCS as the back-end to allow for automatic server creations instantly. NeuronHosting started with rented servers from a company called SecuredServers. Eventually managing servers physically to save on overhead became a necessity as NeuronHosting filled a third rented node.

A contract was signed with ScaleMatrix for a half-rack and NeuronHosting began purchasing servers. Minecraft was RAM bottlenecked, so I bought cheaper, used servers off eBay that had OK CPU’s but high RAM. This allowed for the most minecraft instances, while still preforming well while still being fiscally viable.

The server equipment

The Blue Ethernet cables provided a main internet connection, and the grey cables provided a secure internal network which was never utilized.

NeuronHosting was an interesting look into the way companies operate. I wish I had more to write about it, but its been such a long time and I didn’t preserve too much information on it. I intend on updating this post with more information periodically.

At its peak NeuronHosting had 300 simultaneous minecraft instances running at a time, connecting thousands of players.