Blue Fang Solutions LLC Reviews 166

TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Had numerous instances where our Valheim server was just offline this past year, episodes of poor connection, players unable to connect. Unable to access file manager for around an entire day at times... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

i got frustrated over another serverhost place ignoring me for two days with the server down and moved to blue fang and oh my god the difference in customer service is VAST !!!!!!! I cant keep up with... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've been using BlueFang for a couple years now on and off. Usually just get a server for a month or two when playing a game. Very fast server setup, good interface (including FTP), never a problem wi... See more

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

They are the best of the best

They are the best of the best, they have the best and fastest customer support and are always quick to respond and have the best anwsers. Josh and Tracy we both very professional and deserve credit!

May 28, 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The best customer service!!!

Servers are super easy to edit to your liking. I personally have one rent for me and friends when playing 7 days to die. just go to config, right click, adjust what you want, and click save. Super easy. The best part though is the customer support. I have posted 2 tickets the past 2 years. The first ticket was me causing the issue, not BFS end. The second issue was some old alpha 16 info in the alpha 17 game. Both times they replied to my issue and had it fixed in just a couple of minutes. To top it off, they where nice. Don't see that much anymore. EZ 5 stars on my end

May 28, 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The best of the best

Used this company a lot, and they've always gone above and beyond on giving the best possible service. Their servers are great, well priced, and their support is on point. (Major shoutout to Craig, your support on my server has been a life saver!)

Recommended to all of my friends and family; if you ever need a game server, these guys are the ultimate go-to!

March 28, 2019
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Expensive underpreforming servers

Servers are more expensive than other providers yet performance is worst i saw (Used 3 other providers before). Customer support is a joke definitly worst slowest most unresponsive customer support i experienced. They limit world sizes below 7DTD normal setings so you pay more than other providers and get less and at worse performance.

March 20, 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Customer Support and Service

I've been hosting an ArmA 3 server with Blue Fang Solutions for quite a while now. The first time I set the server up was on the 4th of July of last year, and despite the holiday, they had everything set up within a few hours. Just yesterday I went to install some mods so that me and my buddies could play on Takistan, and realized we would have to upload 17 GB of data to the server to be able to make it work. Well I couldn't do that because of my upload speed, so I put in a ticket. Sure enough, they downloaded all of the mods to the main folder and I was up and running before the end of the night. Excellent customer service, and I have personally never had an issue with the servers they provide. I would recommend them to anyone.

February 18, 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I was on gameservers.com

I was on gameservers.com, thought I would try another server on bluefangsolutions.com to test the comparison. I was impressed by the better hardware and customer service by bluefangsolutions.com that I deleted my accounts with gameservers.com and fully placed my 3 accounts to bluefangsolutions.com. Gameservers.com try to intimidate me in a lawsuit for cancelling and getting refund from paypal for services I was getting that I wasn't getting, only 4Gb of ram for "starvation mod" that they didn't mention I would need more., They wanted me to pay approx $100 per month to support "starvation mod" on another server, something I was able to do with bluefangsolutions.com for about $7 plus hosting, way cheaper. Customer service overall is awesome, I have been offered reduced prices to other hosting from "places" to try, yet bottom line is this, if happy, if not broken, why bother?? So far, this place is awesome!!

February 16, 2019
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

BlueFang OUTSTANDING Customer Service

BlueFang ROCKS! I upgraded my sub server from 12 to 40 so I could get the largest map and ran into some snags. I opened a ticket and within minutes I had a response. Still has some troubles getting map to load but kept in contact with support and they helped me get everything worked out. I felt that someone was there to help with the issues the whole time. Even into late night while I was streaming. These folks are amazing. Great work and keep it up. I will be spreading the word in my streams about BlueFang. You guys have another cheerleader for BlueFang Servers!!!

February 10, 2019
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The Blue Fang technicians are some of the best around!

Tracy set up a Life is Feudal server for me yesterday. I have dealt with Blue Fang many different times in recent years, and I have never seen a better staffed team of technicians! Tracy and her co-workers ( I have worked with Craig and Jeff) have never failed to answer my questions promptly, and the Blue Fang servers in Chicago are the best I have ever used, when it comes to server stability. I wouldn't hesitate to reccommend the Blue Fang team to anyone, novice and experienced alike, who wishes to have a gameserver. Keep up the good work, guys!

January 21, 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

They are Amazing!

Ive had a server with them for about a year now. When I rented my server is available right away. Whenever I needed help with an update they responded quickly to my support ticket and took care of the problem. I have had no issues with lack of response and help from BlueFang Thank You!

December 22, 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 3 out of 5 stars

OK for vanilla 7 days. Avoid if modded.

EDIT 2021
They've changed to at least giving you the standard size map. But the extras are a bit wearing. Don't use them for Darkness Falls; they'll double your bill. I've gone to Chicago Servers for that.

For vanilla/nitrogen OK.

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Update:

Now you have one star not two.

You chose to limit the world size to smaller than the in-game default. That's not an A17 thing; that's you. You are charging people extra to get what is in the base game.

I won't be using your company whilst you continue to do this. I didn't buy a car and pay extra for the wheels from the dealership because Ford put wheels on but the dealership thinks it's ok to sell them with three.

If you were charging for more RAM or SSD, that's one thing. But you are charging extra for the BASE game. No other company is doing that.

No amount of waffle from you guys will excuse that.

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I was with them for quite a while and the server was fine and support was good. But then they decided to limit 7 Days to Die A17 world to even smaller than the default. Apparently to get what the game gives as standard, I need to pay them more. They are the ONLY company who expects this. So ... I moved host.

If they stop trying to fleece their customers, they'd get more stars.

December 21, 2018
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Reply from Blue Fang Solutions LLC

Response to Update: The default world size for Navezgane is 6144km so we matched that for Random Gen worlds. Larger world sizes were found to use more RAM based on our tests and therefore we must charge for larger worlds because of the larger amount of RAM being used by those larger worlds. This is mentioned in our original response to you where we reference "new resource utilization". Maybe we could have been more clear but we are definitely charging for more RAM based on world size and slot count (because player slots use RAM and CPU too). We have never overcharged our customer base and have always been extremely fair with our pricing. Something to remember about our service and our pricing is that we consider ourselves to be a premium host. We have SSD drives, DDoS protection, and around the clock customer support via email, ts3, and we are available on live chat as much as possible. We give 100% ftp access to all of your files and we do not limit hard drive space or memory usage outright except for java based games such as Minecraft where it makes sense to sell servers by amount of RAM. Based on our findings of how the A17 dedicated software works we came to the same conclusion that world sizes needed to be coupled with certain slot sizes based on the average memory usage each world size used and how many potential players those worlds would have.

The new tiered system for world sizes based on slots is not the solution that we would have preferred but is the solution that makes the most sense based on how the A17 dedicated server software acts and performs. This was completely out of our control and all we can do is react to the changes to cover the new resource utilization that would be used and still be as fair as possible to our loyal customers and to all of our new customers and potential customers that joined us for A17.

A 2-star review of our overall service based on a decision we had to make that we had no choice over does not make sense. We implore you to reconsider your overall rating of our service as a whole and not based on one product. Any host that does not limit world sizes is letting these worlds run rampant and you will experience poor performance when their hardware becomes overloaded as a result of running out of memory.

We wish you the best of luck with your future endeavors and hope to be able to serve you again in the near future.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I've used the service for about a year…

I've used the service for about a year for my 7 Days to Die server. Anytime I've had a question or issue, the support team is super fast to respond and very helpful. Most responses are less than 12 hours. Thanks team!

December 15, 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I signed up with Bluefang couple of…

I signed up with Bluefang couple of days ago to run my own dedicated server with them. Player that have been playing on my server was making a big fuss about Bluefang so I decided to give them a go!

Very disappointing to say the least! What they do not tell you on their flashy website is that they do not offer 24/7 support like most other game server providers.

I ran into an issue with my game and waited for half a day before support replied to my ticket. It seems they open when they feel like it cause the first response i got from them was at 10am in the morning! A full 9 hours after I submitted a ticket for support.

I also find their game panel/control panel not very user friendly so I really cannot recommend them as a provider of choice! Not good!

August 31, 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Blatant bait and switch tactics

Blatant bait and switch tactics. They sold a server that they didn't have the appropriate hardware for. They admitted this in the service tickets and they suggested I lower the playercount for the server or pay 3x more for a dedicated box. I said I wanted a refund, they declined. Hoping a charge back will go through as they are operating very unethically.

EDIT:
Upon seeing that I filed a dispute with paypal and gave them poor reviews, they cancelled my account and took all the funds associated with my purchase. I have filed a complaint to the FTC as well as the BBB.

EDIT 2:
To their response: Their representative acknowledged that the hardware they were hosting on was insufficient to host an 80 player server. They are the ones responsible for delivering the service, not the game developers.

August 8, 2018
Unprompted review
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Reply from Blue Fang Solutions LLC

With the game being in early access alpha stages we never guaranteed performance or reliability with the service sold as-is. This was made clear on the product page itself and you knew this before ordering. We recommended a lower slot count if you did not want to deal with the intermittent performance drops that come with the higher slot server counts for Squad and Post Scriptum. Our hardware is plenty powerful to run the software but the software is not yet properly optimized to fully utilize our hardware to its fullest extent. This is normal for Early Access titles and performance is increased over time as the project moves forward in development.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Nothing but good things to say

Nothing but good things to say about these guys.
Had 7D2D server with them recently and no problems except for the ones generated by the game being broken (everyone that plays 7D2D knows what I mean)

Wanted to change from vanilla to modded server, within 1 hour I had my modded server and Craig at support even made a backup for me of the vanilla session (his suggestion which I really appreciate)

Forgot to cancel my subscription for the 7D2D when everyone was bored with the game. Asked if i could get ported over to an ARK server instead. Got my port, an a discount for the amount I had been charged because of my error in canceling the sub for 7D2D. Thanks Josh!

Keep it up Blue Fang. You guys rock!

July 5, 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service and never had any problem

I am with these guys for some time now and I can only say that I am very happy with it. Before I took the server I was a little sceptic because of some reviews of bad support and that kind of stuff on other sites but they have been nothing but great. They give me great and quick support whenever I need help with settings on my server. As long as I will keep playing online server games I will always stick with you guys :)

June 22, 2018
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Best server out there

Great ping time. Fast and friendly customer service. A fair price. What else do you need in a server host. I have had service with them for about 3 years between 7 days to die and Ark. Its the place to be.

June 22, 2018
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