Voice server hosting

Discord took most of this market, and most game hosts quietly dropped voice hosting with it. These are the ones that still sell it — usually per slot, usually cheaper than a game server, and worth it if you want a channel nobody else moderates.

Why rent a voice server at all

Discord is free, and for most groups that settles it. The reasons people still pay for a voice server:

  • You own the moderation. Nobody can suspend your community because a platform changed its rules.
  • Lower latency, if the server is near you. A TeamSpeak server in your own region usually beats a Discord voice region you cannot pick.
  • Slot-based pricing is cheap. Voice servers are billed per slot, and a 25-slot server costs less per month than most game servers.
  • It runs beside your game server. Several hosts on this page will put both in the same datacentre.

What to check before you buy

  • Slots, not players. A "50 slot" server means 50 people connected at once. Buy for your peak, not your average.
  • Which platform. TeamSpeak 3 is still the most widely sold. Mumble is free and open-source and a few hosts sell it managed. Ventrilo is largely legacy at this point.
  • Location. Voice is far more sensitive to latency than it is to bandwidth. A server on the wrong continent is audible.
  • Licensing. TeamSpeak servers over 32 slots need a licence; ask whether the host holds one or whether that becomes your problem.

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