My thoughts on slots (after spending several thousand dollars renting them)

[KeithSt0ne]

I've bought slots on each of these:

• MinecraftServers.org
• Minecraft-Server-List.com
• Minecraft-MP.com

MinecraftServers.org & Minecraft-Server-List.com

With these two server list sites you need either number 1 or number 2 slot, the rest are not worth the same price per hour as you would pay for the #1 and #2 slots.

You'll get loads of traffic at the #1 & #2 slots, however you still get traffic from the #3 and on but it is significantly less.

The people selling these slots treat the lower slots as if they are equal to the #1 and #2 slot, I'm telling you they are not! I would say they are worth about 50% of the going price (about $30/hour)

You'll definitely get more on weekends and for me I will NOT ever waste my money again on a weekday slot.

Minecraft-MP
Weekday's: only buy during 5-9pm Eastern, don't get suckered into buying it for 24 hours, it's not worth it, you get zero traffic until 4-5pm eastern.

On the weekends, you'll get about 30-40% more traffic throughout the day.

 

[Resilience]

I've bought slots on each of these:

• MinecraftServers.org
• Minecraft-Server-List.com
• Minecraft-MP.com

MinecraftServers.org & Minecraft-Server-List.com

With these two server list sites you need either number 1 or number 2 slot, the rest are not worth the same price per hour as you would pay for the #1 and #2 slots.

You'll get loads of traffic at the #1 & #2 slots, however you still get traffic from the #3 and on but it is significantly less.

The people selling these slots treat the lower slots as if they are equal to the #1 and #2 slot, I'm telling you they are not! I would say they are worth about 50% of the going price (about $30/hour)

You'll definitely get more on weekends and for me I will NOT ever waste my money again on a weekday slot.

Minecraft-MP
Weekday's: only buy during 5-9pm Eastern, don't get suckered into buying it for 24 hours, it's not worth it, you get zero traffic until 4-5pm eastern.

On the weekends, you'll get about 30-40% more traffic throughout the day.

Most of this is just common sense, the people that don't follow it are not going to be successful, as simple as that

 

[KeithSt0ne]

Most of this is just common sense, the people that don't follow it are not going to be successful, as simple as that

It's not just common sense, if you've never advertised with a time slot you would have absolutely no idea what to expect.

You wouldn't know if minecraftservers.org could send you more traffic than minecraft-mp, you just wouldn't know.

 

[Armorofglory]

I did not expect you to say that the traffic would be so significantly different comparing slots #1-2 to 3,4,5 on .org...

I'm planning to rent out the 5th slot for a few hours as there are no other slotsfor rent atm :/

 

[KeithSt0ne]

I did not expect you to say that the traffic would be so significantly different comparing slots #1-2 to 3,4,5 on .org...

I'm planning to rent out the 5th slot for a few hours as there are no other slotsfor rent atm :/

You get traffic from the lower slots, just don't expect it to be as good as the #1 and #2 slots, sometimes you just have to take what's available. (just whatever you do, don't buy minecraft-mp during the non-peak hours that I mentioned)[DOUBLEPOST=1446353831,1446352868][/DOUBLEPOST]

You get traffic from the lower slots, just don't expect it to be as good as the #1 and #2 slots, sometimes you just have to take what's available. (just whatever you do, don't buy minecraft-mp during the non-peak hours that I mentioned)

here's an example, on a Thursday night I had a minecraftservers.org slot #5 and got 55 new players over 2 hours. for the #1/2 slots it would have been 2-3x that much.

 

[Jesse]

I've also had multiple slots on .org and MCSL and can confirm this is true.

Was planning to make a thread about it (In fact, I wrote one up), however it doesn't really stop people from trying anyways.

 

[Jesse]

Lol, your still a mod here.

Yes, why?

 

[Jesse]

You are extremely, extremely.. EXTREMLY inactive.

Not really... I just never post on the forums.

 

[Armorofglory]

I question for those who know stuff about slots Jesse KeithSt0ne lets say I rent a slot and get hm 40 new logins. What's the chance of any of them donating or staying ?

Because it's all chance, no real way of guessing. I'd give you a random educated guess, but even that isn't worthy to go by.

 

[Affixial]

Doesn't matter what slot you get. If you have a good server, your server will do good throughout the sponsorship period, and most likely those players will stay, that's if you have a good server.

I rented fifth slot for .org, and it did very well and I'm very happy with the results. A lot of players have stayed and I've already almost made back all my money back. I'd say around 90%.

 

[UltimateRag3r]

Most of this is just common sense, the people that don't follow it are not going to be successful, as simple as that

That is not true. It is not "common sense". It comes from experience, which you have exerienced before.

 

[hedenclod]

Very useful and informative post, thanks for sharing.