White labelling strips a provider's branding from the product and lets you sell as if the infrastructure is your own. Your customers see "YourBrand Hosting" - they are hosting on Space-Node hardware, but that relationship is transparent only to you.
The Technical Components of White Labelling
Custom Domain for Panel: Your Pterodactyl panel runs at panel.yourhosting.com, not at a Space-Node subdomain.
Custom Email Domain: Support tickets and invoice emails come from support@yourhosting.com.
Brand colours in panel: Pterodactyl allows full CSS customisation. Match your brand colours.
Custom invoice template in WHMCS: Replace WHMCS defaults with your brand logo, name, and colours.
Custom error pages: 404 and maintenance pages use your brand.
The Client Perspective
A customer on your white-label platform sees:
- Landing page:
yourhosting.com - Panel login:
panel.yourhosting.com - Support tickets:
yourhosting.com/support - Invoice from:
YourBrand International - Game server ip:
mc.yourhosting.com(DNS pointed to Space-Node IP)
Nothing references Space-Node unless you choose to mention it.
CNAME and DNS Setup
# Your DNS records:
panel.yourhosting.com CNAME pterodactyl.yourprovider.net
play.yourhosting.com A YOUR_SPACE_NODE_IP
support.yourhosting.com A YOUR_VPS_FOR_HELPDESK
All customer-facing URLs are yours. Underlying IPs are Space-Node's infrastructure.
Your Brand as the Differentiator
White labelling commoditises server hardware behind your brand. What actually differentiates in the market:
- Support responsiveness - Responding to tickets in hours vs. days is a real differentiator
- Community - Discord community around your hosting brand creates loyalty
- Specialisation - "Best FiveM hosting in Germany" beats "generic game hosting"
- Content - A YouTube channel about game server hosting that recommends your own brand is SEO and trust in one
The hardware is excellent (Space-Node's infrastructure is production quality). The brand and relationships are yours to build.
Build your white-label hosting brand on Space-Node
What "white-label" really means in Minecraft hosting
White-label means you sell hosting under your own brand and domain, while the underlying nodes, panel, and infrastructure are run by someone else. The end customer sees your name; behind the scenes a wholesale provider does the operations.
Three flavors exist:
| Model | Who owns hardware | Who answers tickets | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reseller | provider | provider (often via your forwarder) | 10-20 % |
| Branded reseller | provider | provider, ticket UI says your brand | 15-25 % |
| White-label hardware | provider rents you a node | you (or co-op) | 30-50 % |
Pure reselling has the lowest entry cost and the lowest margin. White-label hardware is real hosting business.
What you need before launch
- Domain + SSL.
- Your own Pterodactyl or Pelican panel on a small VPS.
- Wholesale node(s) with a provider that explicitly allows white-labelling. Many do not.
- Billing: WHMCS (with the Pterodactyl module) or WemX.
- A way to handle DDoS attacks contractually (ask the provider what coverage you actually have).
- A privacy policy and terms that match the upstream provider's AUP.
Wholesale providers that allow white-label (May 2026)
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| Provider | Allows WL panel | Allows WL ASN/IP | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner | yes (their AUP) | no (their IP) | cheap, EU only |
| OVH Bare Metal | yes | yes (BYOIP / BYOASN) | larger commitment |
| Equinix Metal | yes | yes | enterprise pricing |
| Path.net | yes | yes | game-network specialists |
| Most "reseller programs" | yes | no | check fine print |
The math that decides if it's worth it
Average modded Minecraft customer pays ~€8/month for 4 GB. Your wholesale cost on a Ryzen node typically lands at €1.50-2.50/customer at full density. Subtract panel hosting, support time, billing software, payment processor fees (~3 %), and customer churn (4-7 % monthly). Realistic margin per customer: €4-5/month.
Break-even on a single 64 GB node typically lands at 8-12 paying customers, depending on density and pricing.
What kills white-label brands
- Promising 99.99 % uptime when your wholesale provider's SLA is 99.9 %.
- Not having an out-of-band way to reach hardware (you depend on the provider's response time).
- Running on a single node; one hardware fault = whole brand offline.
- Marketing aggressively with stock-photo "data center" imagery; players see through it.
The brands that grow have at least two upstream providers, transparent status pages, and a real human responding within an hour during peak.