TrueTick vs BisectHosting: Budget/Premium flat hosting vs honest metered hosting
If you're comparing "bisecthosting alternative" or just hunting for cheap Minecraft hosting, BisectHosting is probably already on your shortlist. It's a long-running host known for splitting its Minecraft plans into Budget and Premium tiers, plus one of the larger automated modpack catalogs around. That's a real, popular structure, and plenty of people run Budget plans for years without complaint. TrueTick took a different fork: metered, scale-to-zero billing and a CPU guarantee enforced by admission control — not a plan tier you pay to unlock. Written by the paid competitor, so check both claims yourself before trusting either of us.
Who each one is actually for
BisectHosting is for people who want to pick their own price/feature trade-off — a cheaper Budget plan if a lighter feature set is fine, or a Premium plan for the fuller one, at a known flat price either way. That's an honest menu, and a large modpack catalog to draw from regardless of tier.
TrueTick is for people who'd rather not choose a tier at all. Every active server gets the same guaranteed CPU share, enforced by admission control, and you pay by the hour you're actually playing instead of picking between a lighter plan and a fuller one.
The comparison
Two different bets: a tiered flat-monthly menu you choose from, or metered billing with one CPU guarantee that applies to every server. Checked July 2026:
| BisectHosting | TrueTick | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat monthly, split into Budget and Premium tiers by RAM | Metered: $0.012/active GB-hour, or flat $3/GB-month if you want always-on |
| Pay for idle time? | Yes — flat plans bill the same whether the server runs 1 hour or 720 | Only if you choose the flat plan; metered bills $0 while asleep |
| CPU allocation | Not publicly specified per plan | Guaranteed CPU per active server, enforced by admission control that blocks overselling a node — the same guarantee on every plan |
| Startup | Always-on (no wake/sleep cycle on standard plans) | Scale-to-zero with wake-on-join; cold start in the low tens of seconds |
| Modpacks | Automated installer, large modpack catalog | Supported (Forge/NeoForge/Fabric, Modrinth/CurseForge catalog), sized to your RAM tier |
| Regions | Multiple — check their site for the current list | NA (Canada) + EU (France) |
We're intentionally not quoting BisectHosting's current prices or the exact line between Budget and Premium here — that's on their pricing page and changes over time, so check it directly. What we can say plainly: a tiered budget/premium menu is a common shape in this category, and it tends to track the same economics: Splitting the same service into a cheaper, lighter tier and a pricier, fuller one is how flat-monthly hosts manage the question every flat host faces — how much of a node's CPU is actually reserved for you versus shared with other customers on your tier. That's not an accusation aimed at BisectHosting specifically; it's how budget flat-rate hosting is built, and it's worth asking any host with a "budget" line what the cheaper tier trades away.
Where BisectHosting is the right call
- You want to choose your own price/feature trade-off. The Budget/Premium split is an honest menu — pay less and accept a lighter feature set, or pay more for the fuller one. That's a legitimate way to shop, not a trick.
- You want one of the larger modpack catalogs available. If your group wants a huge, pre-built modpack list without hunting for compatible files yourselves, an automated installer built around that scale is a real convenience.
- A flat number is simpler than metered math for your group. No GB-hour tracking, no thinking about sleep/wake cycles — pick a tier, pay it monthly, done.
If choosing an explicit budget tier and a big modpack catalog is what your group wants, BisectHosting is a reasonable, well-established pick — not a strawman we're knocking down.
Where it hits a ceiling
A Budget/Premium split is honest about trading features for price, but it doesn't directly answer the CPU question on either tier: how many other customers on the same plan size share your node at once. A flat monthly fee — Budget or Premium — doesn't change based on how much CPU your server actually uses, which means the business only works if not every customer on that tier needs their full share simultaneously. That's the same math as any flat-rate host, cheap tier or not.
That's the gap TrueTick is built to close:
- A guaranteed CPU share per active server, enforced by admission control. There's no tier to upgrade into for a resource guarantee — every server gets the same enforced share, checked in code before it's allowed to start.
- Metered, scale-to-zero billing. You're not paying a flat monthly fee, Budget or Premium, for hours nobody's playing — a server that's awake five hours a week costs a few cents that week.
Verdict
If picking your own price/feature tier and a huge modpack catalog matters most, BisectHosting's Budget/Premium split is a reasonable, established option — we mean that. If you'd rather every server get the same enforced CPU guarantee and pay only for the hours you play, check the GB-hour math for your server or create one and watch the TPS line hold for yourself.
See the live numbers yourself: fleet status, pricing, or create a server.