About Us
Australian game hosting,run by two mates.
Two people, some very hardworking hardware in Sydney, and a stubborn belief that you shouldn’t need a wiki open to run a game server. We built the whole thing ourselves, which means there is nobody else to blame: if it falls over at 2am, one of us is awake for it, and when you email support, one of us is the one typing back.
The Team
Bailey
Co-Founder
Keeps the hardware in Sydney fed, watered and upright. When something falls over at 3am, the alarm goes off next to Bailey rather than next to you. That was the deal.
Dillon Carroll
Co-Founder
Builds everything you actually touch: the storefront, the dashboard, the server panel. Also reads the support inbox, so if a button is in a daft spot, you know exactly who to tell.
How Play Your Way Started
It started in 2026 with one server, for us and a handful of mates. The server was the easy part. Everything around it belonged to somebody else: somebody else’s machine, somebody else’s control panel, somebody else’s support queue that replied in three business days with a link to an article we had already read. Every time we wanted to change how something worked, the answer was that we could ask, and then wait.
So we built our own out of pure stubbornness. Dedicated hardware in Sydney, a panel we wrote from scratch, and the freedom to fix whatever annoyed us that week instead of filing a ticket into the void. That is why your least technical mate can drive the panel, why the plans say what they cost with no asterisk hiding around the corner, and why support is answered by the two people who wrote the software and therefore know exactly whose fault it is.
It is still just the two of us. The games list keeps growing, the panel gets rebuilt every time we spot something a customer shouldn’t have to think about, and the reason hasn’t changed: we wanted a host we would happily put our own mates on. They are still on it. They would absolutely tell us if it were rubbish.
The plain version, with every current price and policy on one page: Play Your Way company facts.
How we run the joint
Your ping needs no passport
Every server runs on dedicated hardware in Sydney, backed by a 99.9% uptime commitment. No detour through Singapore, no 200ms of regret halfway through a raid. Here is the ping to expect from each city.
There is no Tier 2
Nothing to escalate to, because there is nobody above us. The two of us read the tickets, and we play the games we host, so you can skip the part where you explain what a modpack is.
No handcuffs
Month to month, a 72-hour money-back guarantee, and your world files are yours to download whenever you like. Leaving is easy. We would rather you didn’t, obviously.
Got a question? Fire away.
Servers, games, billing, or which modpack will melt your laptop. You will get a person with an opinion, not a canned reply and a ticket number.