TrueTick vs TickHosting: two different hosts with similar names

First, the thing that probably brought you here: TickHosting and TrueTick are two different companies. If you were looking for TickHosting, the free Minecraft host, it lives at tickhosting.com, and nothing on this site will log you into it. The names are close, but the companies aren't related. The rest of this page covers how the two differ. TrueTick wrote this page, so every claim about TickHosting below links to their own site for you to check.

Who each one is for

TickHosting is for a free server with a lot of RAM, or a cheap always-on one. Free plans at 4, 6 and 8 GB with no card, and paid plans from €2 a month. They have free plans and we don't, and on the monthly price of a 24/7 server they beat us.

TrueTick is for a paid server whose CPU share is reserved for it, with the tick number on screen, billed by the hours it's awake instead of by the month.

Free hosting

TickHosting has free plans with a lot of RAM, and upkeep attached. Three free plans: 4, 6 and 8 GB of RAM, 10 GB of storage, no credit card, modpacks allowed. The trade, per their own free-vs-paid table: a free server doesn't stay online when nobody is playing, it needs manual renewal, and the panel shows ads. How often you renew depends on which of their pages you read. The landing page lists renewal every 8, 6 or 4 hours depending on the plan, while the pricing page says "every few days", so check their panel for the rule that applies today.

TrueTick has no free tier. We ran a small one, 20 hours a month on 2 GB of RAM, and it ended on November 5, 2026. If you need a free server, TickHosting is the one to use.

The comparison

Checked November 2026. Every TickHosting cell links to their own site:

	TickHosting	TrueTick
Free tier	4, 6 or 8 GB RAM, 10 GB storage, no card; hibernates when empty, manual renewal, ads in the panel	None; ours ended on November 5, 2026
Paid price	Eco from €2/mo, Performance from €3/mo, billed monthly	$0.012 per active GB-hour metered, or $3/GB-month flat
Cost while nobody plays	paid plans are "always online — no hibernation", so the month costs the same either way	$0 while asleep on the metered plan
Hardware they name	Intel Xeon, DDR4 and SSD on Free and Eco; AMD Ryzen 9, DDR5 and NVMe on Performance	a CPU share reserved per running server; admission control refuses to start a server the node can't fully back
Locations	Their FAQ puts free servers in Frankfurt and New York, while their landing page lists Falkenstein, Helsinki, Beauharnois, France and Singapore; paid: Finland, Singapore and Canada on Eco, Germany on Performance	EU and NA
Panel	Pterodactyl, with console, file manager, SFTP, databases, schedules, subusers, backups	web console, file manager and backups, plus live TPS/MSPT on Paper, Purpur, Forge and NeoForge; on Vanilla and Fabric from Minecraft 1.20.3
Other games	Hytale and SCP:SL	Minecraft only

Where TickHosting is the right call

• You want a free server. They offer up to 8 GB free. We have no free tier.
• You want mods without paying. Their free plans take modpacks. A modded server with us is a paid one, from 4 GB.
• Your server is up 24/7 and the monthly price decides it. A 4 GB Eco plan was €4 a month when we checked. Our flat plan is $3/GB-month, so $12 for the same 4 GB. Euros and dollars aren't the same money, but no exchange rate closes a gap that size.
• Your players are in Asia. They have a Singapore location. We run EU and NA only.
• You also want Hytale or SCP:SL. They host both. We host Minecraft and nothing else.

Where the two differ in our favour

• A reserved CPU share, enforced in code. We refuse to start a server if the node can't back its full CPU share. What that protects against is measured in our oversell benchmark.
• You pay for awake hours. A 4 GB server on the metered plan costs $0.048 for each hour it's awake: 40 awake hours in a month is $1.92, and $4 buys about 83 hours. For a server that's busy a few evenings a week, that comes in under a monthly plan. For one that's up around the clock it doesn't, and TickHosting wins that case.

Our server page also shows live TPS and MSPT on Paper, Purpur, Forge and NeoForge, and on Vanilla and Fabric from Minecraft 1.20.3, so you can see whether the server is lagging. We haven't found a TickHosting page that says whether their panel shows a tick number, so it isn't on the list above.

Verdict

If you want a free server, free mods or the cheapest always-on server, take TickHosting. On those three they beat us, and their site is tickhosting.com, not this one.

If you'd rather have a CPU share that's reserved while your server is awake and a bill that follows the hours it's awake, check the maths for your server or create one.