PhantomServices
Six ways in.
One standard underneath.
Every product below shares the same foundation: hardware we own, a network we peer ourselves, DDoS filtering by default, and engineers who answer. The only decision is what shape your workload takes.
Game servers
Hosting that keeps up with a full lobby
Game servers fail differently than websites. A page can load 200 ms slower and nobody cares; a tick rate that dips for two seconds gets clipped, posted, and blamed on you. So we build game infrastructure around the metric that actually matters: consistency under load.
Every game plan runs on high-clock Ryzen, EPYC, or INTEL processors with pinned cores, NVMe storage, and DDR5 OR DDR4 memory. Deployment is instant, and nightly snapshots are shipped off-server automatically — so one bad admin decision never becomes a permanent one.
And you're never at the mercy of a support ticket to run your own server. Every game service includes a full management panel — the kind of control you'd expect from a machine you own:
Moving from another host? Migrations are free. Send us your world files or panel credentials and we'll do the careful part.
VPS hosting
A virtual server that behaves like it isn't
The dirty secret of budget VPS hosting is contention: your "4 cores" are 4 tickets in a raffle. We don't run that raffle. Phantom VPS plans ship with guaranteed vCPU allocations on KVM, honest memory limits, and I/O that stays flat whether it's Tuesday afternoon or Black Friday.
You get full root, your choice of Linux distribution or Windows Server, IPv4 and a /64 of IPv6, rescue mode, and API-driven snapshots. Reinstall in one click, scale up without re-provisioning, and reach every instance over our private network at no charge.
Every VPS includes the same full control panel as the rest of the fleet: power and reinstall controls, a browser-based console for when SSH is the thing that broke, snapshot and backup management, reverse DNS, usage graphs, and firewall rules — all without a ticket.
It's the server you'd build for yourself — minus the part where you drive to a datacenter.
Dedicated servers
The whole machine, and the keys to it
Some workloads deserve bare metal: databases that hate virtualization overhead, game networks with hundreds of concurrent instances, anything where "noisy neighbor" isn't an acceptable phrase. Our dedicated fleet is current-generation Ryzen, EPYC, and Xeon — no five-year-old inventory rebadged as "value tier."
Every server ships with the full control panel too — power cycling, OS reinstalls, bandwidth graphs, rescue mode, and reverse DNS from the browser — plus IPMI/KVM-over-IP access underneath it, so you control the machine down to the BIOS. Choose your RAID layout, add drives while the machine runs, order private VLANs between boxes, and push up to 10 Gbps per port. Hardware is proactively replaced on our maintenance cycle — most failures are prevented, not repaired.
Standard configurations provision within hours. Custom builds are usually racked inside two business days.
Domain registration
Names that live next to their servers
A domain isn't complicated, which is exactly why the industry has to work so hard to make it feel that way — teaser pricing, renewal ambushes, privacy sold back to you as an add-on. We register domains the way we'd want ours registered: the renewal price is on the same line as the first-year price, WHOIS privacy is free, and DNSSEC is a toggle, not a ticket.
Every domain gets our anycast DNS at no charge, answering from all twelve points of presence. Point a record at your Phantom server and propagation is effectively a formality.
Web hosting
Websites on infrastructure built for harder things
Shared hosting has a reputation problem, and it earned it: hundreds of sites stacked on tired hardware, sold on a price that triples at renewal. Ours is different for a boring reason — it runs on the same Gen4 NVMe fleet as our game and VPS platforms, and we cap accounts per node the same way we refuse to oversell everything else.
You manage everything through cPanel — the panel your last host had, minus the queue-time. Softaculous installs WordPress and 400+ other apps in one click, LiteSpeed with LSCache serves pages faster than stock Apache ever will, and every domain gets free AutoSSL certificates that renew themselves.
Email is included and treated seriously: proper SPF, DKIM, and DMARC tooling, so your mail lands where it's addressed. Daily backups are automatic and restorable yourself, from cPanel, at 3 a.m. if that's when you break things.
Infrastructure & enterprise
When your architecture outgrows a product page
Some things can't be configured in a dropdown: a private rack with your compliance requirements, a multi-region game backend with anycast ingress, a database cluster that needs specific NUMA topology, BGP sessions announcing your own address space. This is the part of Phantom where we design with you instead of selling to you.
Enterprise engagements start with an architecture conversation — a real one, with the engineer who will run your environment, not a sales deck. From there we build to spec: custom hardware, private VLANs and interconnects, BYOIP, tailored SLAs, and documentation your auditors will actually accept.
You get a named engineer with a direct line. Not a queue. A person.
Common questions
Asked often, answered honestly
Where do I order, and where do I manage my services?
Everything transactional — ordering, billing, upgrades, support tickets, and service management — lives in the client area at billing.phantom-hosting.net. This site is the map; that's the territory.
Is DDoS protection really included, or is it an upsell?
Included, on every service, at no additional cost. Filtering capacity is measured in terabits and tuned per protocol, so game traffic is scrubbed differently than web traffic. There is no "premium protection" tier — the good version is the only version.
Can you migrate my existing server from another host?
Yes, and it's free. For game servers, send us your files or panel access and we'll handle the move end to end, usually scheduling the cutover for your community's quietest hour. For VPS and dedicated workloads, our engineers will plan the migration with you before touching anything.
What happens if you miss the uptime SLA?
You get service credits, automatically calculated against the 99.99% commitment — you shouldn't have to catch us to be compensated. The details are spelled out in plain language in the client area, not buried in a PDF.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. Game servers and VPS plans are month to month, and you can cancel from the client area without talking to a retention specialist, because we don't employ any. Dedicated and enterprise terms are agreed up front and honored exactly as written.
Do you oversell resources?
No. VPS plans have guaranteed vCPU and memory allocations, game servers get pinned cores, and dedicated machines are — by definition — yours alone. Overselling is how hosting gets cheap and stays bad; we'd rather be honest and slightly less cheap.
Next step
Found your shape?
Head to the client area to configure and deploy, or ask us anything first — pre-sales questions go straight to engineers too.