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Mid-Term 2025 Transparency Report
Athe start of this year we put out our first ever transparency report, with the goal to issue a new one every year. . However, this year, so much has changed at Kinetic that our 2025 report is already outdated.
SGP Packages - What Are They?
In this blog post we'll be covering our new SGP packages that you might have spotted on the billing panel.
Kinetic Panel 5.4
It's a big update, so we've got a lot to cover.
How to Switch to Kinetic Hosting (Free Server Migration Included)
We’ll move your server to Kinetic Hosting for free. Including all files, worlds, mods, and settings. Learn how to get started.
Supported Game Types | Main vs Limited Support | Kinetic Hosting
At Kinetic Hosting, you can change the game your server is running at any time. We currently support over 45 different games, and that list continues to grow.
The Blue Becomes Purple
For the first time since we introduced our current logo in 2021, we've rolled out a refresh. We've kept the shape of our logo, but we're now sporting a fancy new purple colour and new font style.
2025 Feedback Form - Win A Free Server
f you've been around for a while, you'll know we release feedback forms every 6–8 months. We use your responses to help improve our service and ensure we're on the right track.
Panel Outage 10/04/2025
At 7:34 AM UTC, our emergency team was alerted to an issue causing our game panel to become inaccessible. Upon investigation, we discovered the issue wasn't directly with the game panel, but rather with our caching proxy server.
No AI, No Bots — Just Real Support | Kinetic Hosting
We won't use AI for support. Ever. Get fast, human-powered help through live chat, Discord, or tickets — 100% real support, 100% of the time.
2025 Transparency Report
Welcome to our first-ever annual transparency report. We'll release this report each year to share clear insights into our operating costs, how your money is being spent, and the future direction we're taking Kinetic Hosting.
Texas Performance Outage
At 10 AM GMT, we were alerted to an outage affecting nine of our nodes in our Texas location:
Hardware Upgrades Incoming
At Kinetic, offering modern, powerful hardware has always been a priority. When we launched in 2020, the standard in hosting was outdated Intel Xeon CPUs. We weren’t satisfied with this, as it led to slow and laggy servers. From the start, we committed to providing updated Intel CPUs to ensure everyone could enjoy smooth, lag-free servers
Kinetic Panel 5 is in development
Last year, we released the biggest update to our panel yet: Panel 4. This update featured a huge UI overhaul, new modpack and version installers, a new Overview page, a schedule system, and so much more.
Free Server - Feedback Form
Our 2024 feedback form is now open
Feedback Form Response
In today’s post, I wanted to take the time to cover some of the common feedback we've been getting and to address how we'll be acting on it.
New Locations Added to Our Lineup
We've been busy over the past two months adding new locations and improving our existing ones. We know that ping matters when it comes to gaming, so we've been working to grow our coverage.
Impact Packages Are Getting An Upgrade
Our Impact line of servers has gotten a huge upgrade. Now offering now offering AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs, DDR5 Memory, and super-fast NVMe SSDs. All that extra power, with no price increase. This brings true top of the line hardware to our game servers. We've been blown away by their power and speed, and we think you will be too.
Upgrades To Budget Servers
Starting today we'll be moving servers on the following nodes to upgrade their hardware:
Welcome
A welcome to the new Kinetic Hosting news page
Enjoying Kinetic?
We’re super thankful for everyone who uses our services and chats with our 24/7/365 support team. Your reviews really help us understand what we’re doing right and what we can make better. If you’ve got a minute, we’d love it if you could leave a review on our Trustpilot, Every review makes a big difference! Thanks!
Changes To Panel Updates
We launched the Kinetic Panel back in 2022, and up until now, most features have been added through major updates. This approach sometimes meant that features were completed but had to wait for other features to be finalized before release. While this was unavoidable in some cases, such as with the significant UI reworks in Panel 3 and Panel 4, it has occasionally left features you could have been using just sitting there.