RE:NODE runs 39 product lines across 31 games, application runtimes, websites, databases and dedicated hardware - on a panel, a shop and an automation stack we wrote ourselves rather than licensed.
When a game's install script is broken upstream we rewrite it. Several of the games on this site ship with corrections we made - a Minecraft installer that silently saved an error page as the server jar, an egg pointing every server at a competitor's infrastructure, a database plan whose superuser password was published on the internet.
An automated check asks, for every plan, whether buying it would actually produce a working server: does the egg exist, can its environment be filled without a human, does it fit the largest node, are there free ports. It has caught plans that were already on sale and could not be built.
One location. No automatic refund button. Several games that need a key only you can get. Backups that go when the server does. All of it is written down before you pay rather than discovered afterwards.
Page views are counted with a hash that cannot be linked across days and stores no address at all. Game artwork and blurbs are fetched by us once a week and served from here, so opening the shop does not tell Valve or a CDN who you are.
