Game Hosting Is Shutting Down

In short: game hosting at HEO Systems is shutting down, and billing for it stopped on 13 November 2026. Your server will be backed up and you'll get a prorated refund for any time you already paid for. Web hosting, email and domains are not affected and keep running as normal.

What this means for you

• Billing has stopped. If you have an open invoice for a game server, you don't have to pay it. It won't be refunded either. This only applies to game hosting invoices. Invoices for web hosting and domains still need to be paid as normal.
• You'll get a refund for unused time. If you paid for your game server recently, I'll calculate the time you haven't used and refund it. I hope to have everyone refunded by the end of November.
• Your server keeps running for now. I'll keep the current game servers online for as long as I can.
• Your files are safe. I'm making a backup of every game server and keeping them safe. If you need your server data, just ask, even if you read this late.
• Help with moving. If you want to move to another host, I'll do my best to help.
• Discord bot hosting is included. It falls under game hosting, so all of the above applies to bot servers too.

For your data, a refund question or anything else, open a ticket or send me a message on Discord.

Why

After a lot of consideration, I've made the difficult decision to shut down game hosting at HEO Systems.

I started HEO Systems when I was around 14, as a small Minecraft host. It began as an experiment, and it grew along with me as I learned more and more about infrastructure. Doing it is how I found out where my passion is. I'm 19 now. Since then we've moved to new hardware, relaunched, added Discord bot hosting and other games, and kept our prices as low as we could. Game hosting is where we came from, and letting it go hurts more than I can put into words.

I want you to know this isn't about not making enough money out of it. I have never taken a single cent from HEO Systems. Everything it made went back into it, and month after month I added my own money on top, thousands of euros over the years. Money I wanted to keep aside for myself, I put into keeping your servers running and your prices low.

But hardware costs keep rising, and as a smaller player there's no way to compete. I wrote about this in February in Our Game Servers Are in Trouble. Since then I scaled down, shut down and combined nodes, and introduced a new budget plan. None of it was enough. I'm still a student, and I can't keep giving more than I have.

What happens to HEO Systems

HEO Systems is not going anywhere. Web hosting and domains have grown a lot over the past months. They've proven to be stable, and in that short time they've brought in more revenue than game hosting probably ever has. That's where I'll keep investing my time, and it's what will keep HEO Systems going.

Thank you

Keeping this going for so long without any reward has been mentally draining. But I don't hate it. Countless hours went into it, and lots of things that never got released, and it carried me through more than you know. Because of it, I've met a lot of great people :)

I'm sorry to let you all down. We've had a good ride, and I'm grateful to everyone who has hosted with me along the way.

Thank you for being part of HEO Systems.

Hamza