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Minecraft Gamers Demand Better Servers, and They’re Willing to Pay for Them — Liquid Web Study Shows VPS & Dedicated Server Opportunities

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26% of Minecraft players are willing to pay more for high-performance server hosting to support mods, custom worlds, and smoother gameplay.

ATLANTA, March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Liquid Web, a leader in VPS, dedicated servers, WordPress, GPU and cloud hosting, has released their study revealing a major market opportunity for hosting providers:

47% of players are open to paying for exclusive updates, showing a willingness to invest in their gaming experience.

Minecraft players need better servers, and they’re willing to pay for them.

As multiplayer communities grow and custom worlds become more complex, many players experience lag, crashes, and unreliable hosting, disrupting their gameplay. VPS and dedicated servers solve this problem by providing the speed, stability, and performance gamers need.

According to Minecraft’s Enduring Popularity: Insights from Gamers on Its Future, 26% of players are willing to invest in premium hosting to improve their experience.

For hosting businesses, this presents a lucrative opportunity to serve the gaming market with optimized VPS and dedicated servers that deliver smooth multiplayer interactions and uninterrupted gameplay.

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Why Minecraft Players Are Choosing VPS Hosting & Dedicated Servers

To eliminate performance issues, Minecraft players need hosting solutions that offer:

Faster speeds – Smooth multiplayer sessions and seamless modded world support.Improved uptime – Reliable connections with minimal crashes and server drops.More customization – Flexibility for custom modpacks, plugins, and private servers.

“Minecraft players aren’t just gaming — they’re building massive, custom worlds that require serious performance,” says Brian Oates, Product Manager at Liquid Web. “Both VPS and dedicated servers provide the speed, uptime, and control gamers need. For hosting businesses, this is a prime opportunity to sell high-quality game hosting to a highly engaged audience.”

The Business Case for Selling VPS & Dedicated Servers to Gamers

Liquid Web’s study highlights key insights that prove the demand for high-performance hosting:

26% of Minecraft players are willing to pay more for premium hosting.47% are open to paying for exclusive updates, showing a willingness to invest in their gaming experience.70% believe Minecraft will still be popular in 10 years, ensuring a long-term market for game servers.

For hosting businesses, this is a prime opportunity to tap into the gaming market by offering high-speed, reliable VPS and dedicated servers — attracting Minecraft players who want an upgrade from laggy, unreliable hosts.

As the demand for premium Minecraft servers grows, businesses can capitalize on this trend by reselling VPS and dedicated hosting solutions. To help, Liquid Web is hosting a live webinar on March 27, 2025, covering how to successfully sell game hosting to Minecraft players.

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With Liquid Web’s game VPS and dedicated servers, you get:

High-performance servers for smooth, lag-free gameplay.DDoS protection to keep game servers online and secure.Scalable solutions for everything from small private worlds to massive multiplayer communities.

Don’t miss out on this growing market — learn how to resell game hosting and boost your business. Register now for the March 27 webinar.

About Liquid Web
As a cornerstone of CloudOne Digital, Liquid Web leverages best-in-class infrastructure and cloud capabilities to provide unparalleled support and growth for businesses. Building on 25+ years of success, Liquid Web delivers industry-leading hosting for mission-critical sites, stores, and applications to SMBs and the designers, developers, and agencies who create for them. Liquid Web’s expansive global reach and support for nearly 200,000 customers is a testament to its reliability and the trust it has garnered from its customers. Our foundation is built by a world-class team of technology and industry experts dedicated to delivering excellence 24/7/365. As a leader in customer service, the rapidly expanding brand has been recognized among INC. Magazine’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies for 12 years.

For media inquiries, please contact:
Media Contact Name: Amanda Valle
Title: Global Director
Email: media@liquidweb.com

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Beyondsoft Showcases Financial AI Solutions for Southeast Asian Markets at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026

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Company presents financial technology platforms and shares experience in adapting solutions for Southeast Asian markets

HONG KONG, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Beyondsoft showcased its financial AI and digital solutions at Hong Kong FinTech Week x StartmeupHK 2026, where the company also shared its experience of adapting fintech capabilities developed in China to the needs of Southeast Asian markets.

The company presented its AI agent platform, mobile application development platform and enterprise digital currency payment collection system. Its team met with financial institutions, technology companies and industry organisations to discuss AI applications, implementation challenges and opportunities for collaboration across the region.

AI and Digital Solutions for Financial Services

Beyondsoft’s AI agent platform combines large language models with industry knowledge bases to support risk management, oversight of funds, automated regulatory reporting and targeted customer engagement. The platform is designed to bring AI into financial workflows and help institutions explore end-to-end automation of core business processes.

Built on Beyondsoft’s proprietary technology, the mobile application development platform supports financial apps across multiple device environments and enables faster updates, helping teams improve development and delivery efficiency.

The enterprise digital currency payment collection system provides payment collection services for financial institutions and corporate clients through a customised software-as-a-service model.

Conversations at the exhibition focused on where financial AI agents could be most useful, how to implement them and how to assess their business value. The team also discussed potential partnerships in mobile financial services and digital payments.

Adapting China’s Fintech Experience to Southeast Asian Markets

As part of the event, Ariel Lin, who leads Beyondsoft’s Innovation Lab and AI Practice, delivered a presentation on adapting China’s financial AI capabilities to Southeast Asian markets.

Drawing on China’s experience in core banking, AI-powered lending at scale and generative AI in production, Lin emphasised that international expansion requires more than exporting products. Technical expertise, experienced people and proven delivery practices are equally important.

Customer expectations, operations and infrastructure vary across Southeast Asia. Technology providers need to adapt their solutions to each market and work with local teams to build the skills needed to maintain and develop them. Technology transfer and knowledge sharing can help local businesses build these capabilities over time.

Addressing Local Regulatory Requirements

The presentation also examined differences in regulatory requirements across Southeast Asia, with examples from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Topics included data protection, biometric identity verification, the fairness and explainability of AI-assisted decisions, and financial data sharing.

For cross-border projects, these requirements need to be considered from the outset. Data use must comply with applicable purpose limitations and consent requirements. Biometric applications require attention to liveness detection and accuracy, while AI-assisted decisions need to address fairness and explainability. Financial data sharing must also comply with local banking secrecy and credit information requirements.

Lin emphasised that compliance needs to be built into solution design and implementation to help financial institutions manage the risks of deploying AI across markets.

Experience in Cross-Border Delivery

Beyondsoft’s work for the overseas branches of a Chinese global bank illustrated the demands of cross-border technology delivery. The projects covered personal and corporate mobile banking, credit card applications, mobile workplace tools and mobile learning platforms.

The work required experience in financial systems development, coordination across platforms and complex project delivery. For institutions operating across borders, individual applications also need to work together, support business continuity and meet regional requirements.

With its International Headquarters in Singapore, Beyondsoft continues to connect technology expertise from China with business needs in Southeast Asia. Drawing on its financial technology experience and global service network, the company will explore AI applications and service models suited to regional markets, working with industry partners to bring AI into financial business processes.

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About Beyondsoft

Beyondsoft is a global technology services and solutions company helping organisations accelerate digital transformation and turn technology into business value. With more than 30 years of experience and a global talent network of nearly 30,000 professionals, Beyondsoft delivers capabilities spanning AI and data intelligence, cloud and infrastructure, digital platforms, enterprise applications, managed services and localisation capabilities.

With its International Headquarters in Singapore, Beyondsoft supports organisations across Southeast Asia and beyond, combining global technology expertise with local market delivery capabilities. Through its ecosystem of technology partners and industry solutions, Beyondsoft works with organisations of all sizes to adopt emerging technologies, improve operational efficiency and drive sustainable growth.

www.beyondsoft.com

 

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EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass., Nov. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Magnolia Management Company, LLC (“Magnolia”) is providing notice of a recent data privacy event that may have affected limited protected health information for certain individuals. On April 3, 2026, Magnolia became aware of unauthorized activity in one employee email account. Upon discovery, Magnolia took immediate action to secure its email environment and investigate the scope of the event, including hiring a third-party forensic investigation firm. Following a thorough review, Magnolia confirmed that a limited amount of information may have been accessed by an unauthorized individual. Magnolia undertook a comprehensive review of the impacted data to identify what type of information was contained therein, and to whom that information belonged. On August 10, 2026, that review was completed.

In response to this event, Magnolia also implemented additional technical safeguards to further enhance the security of information in its possession and with the aim of preventing similar events from happening in the future. While there is no evidence of actual or attempted misuse of any information as a result of this event, Magnolia will be providing impacted individuals with access to complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services.

Magnolia takes the confidentiality of information in its care very seriously and regrets any inconvenience or concern caused by this event. If you have any questions, please call our dedicated assistance line at 833-918-4065, Monday – Friday, 8 am – 8 pm CT, excluding major U.S. holidays.

Individuals are encouraged to remain vigilant against events of identity theft by reviewing credit reports, account statements, and explanation of benefits forms for suspicious activity and to detect errors.

Individuals may place a fraud alert or credit freeze by contacting the credit reporting agencies: TransUnion 1-800-680-7289, P.O. Box 2000 Chester, PA 19016, transunion.com; Experian 1-888-397-3742, P.O. Box 9554 Allen, TX 75013, experian.com; Equifax 1-888-298-0045, P.O. Box 105069 Atlanta, GA 30348, equifax.com.

Individuals can further educate themselves regarding identity theft, fraud alerts, credit freezes, and steps to protect their personal information by contacting the credit reporting bureaus, the Federal Trade Commission, or their state attorney general. The FTC may be reached at 600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20580; www.identitytheft.gov; 1-877-ID-THEFT (1- 877-438-4338); and TTY: 1-866-653-4261. Instances of known or suspected identity theft should also be reported to law enforcement, your state attorney general, and the FTC.

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Arrowpoint Investment Partners Selects Arcesium to Scale Asia-Focused Multi-Strategy Platform

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Asia-focused multi-strategy investment firm uses Arcesium’s Opterra™ investment lifecycle management platform to efficiently scale complex multi-manager, multi-asset strategies  

SINGAPORE, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Arrowpoint Investment Partners (“Arrowpoint”), an investment firm building an Asia-focused, multi-strategy platform, today announced that it has partnered with Arcesium, a leading global financial technology provider to the investment industry. Arrowpoint is leveraging Arcesium’s intelligent data management and operational platform, Opterra, along with its industry expertise and managed services, to scale its sophisticated, multi-asset investment strategies. Equipped with industry-leading technology, Arrowpoint is able to onboard new managers quickly and drive competitive edge across multiple asset classes and investment strategies as the platform scales.

“Using Arcesium’s technology and operational platform enables us to achieve efficient and scalable growth through our Asia-focused strategy,” said Woon Young Jeong, Chief Operating Officer of Arrowpoint. “The company’s pedigree of working with large multi-strategy firms, its managed services’ global coverage, and its intelligent technology made it the right partner to support our goals. Arcesium’s deep capabilities within the hedge fund ecosystem mean our portfolio managers can quickly deploy and scale new strategies, supported by operational infrastructure capable of matching our growth ambitions.”

Founded in 2024 by a former Millennium Asia co-CEO, the Singapore-headquartered firm manages $2 billion in funds, has a presence in Hong Kong and Dubai, and oversees 24 portfolio managers across Asia and the Middle East. As Arrowpoint grows and manages investment activity across multiple asset classes, the firm’s priority was to find an agile technology partner that meets rapid workflows and processes, while harmonizing large volumes of data.

Chris Barrow, Head of Revenue for EMEA & APAC at Arcesium, commented on the announcement: “We are delighted to partner with Arrowpoint as one of the most sophisticated and high-profile launches we’ve seen in Asia. Since opening the Arcesium office in Hong Kong earlier this year and expanding our presence in the region, we are quickly gaining momentum with other hedge funds and asset managers and are tapping into the vibrant market interest in Hong Kong and Singapore. Partnering with such a high-caliber client like Arrowpoint is a key milestone and we look forward to enabling the firm to scale in new directions with the support of our technology and managed services.”

Arcesium’s Opterra is a front-to-back investment lifecycle management platform that fits the unique operating environments of hedge funds, enabling optimized capital efficiency, increased productivity, and reduced operational risk. This partnership underscores Arcesium’s continued momentum in the APAC region as more firms look to modernize their technology infrastructure and scale with confidence.

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About Arcesium:

Arcesium© is a global financial technology company delivering front-to-back technology solutions for some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, asset managers, private markets, sell side, and digital assets firms. Expertly designed to achieve a synchronized golden source of data throughout a client’s ecosystem, Arcesium’s cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale.

Today, Arcesium services over $6.7T in gross AUM and over $1.2T in sell-side capital balances and has modelled over 178 million investments to date. Arcesium was built from a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, and launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later made a strategic investment in the company, helping Arcesium further its mission: to power the entire investment lifecycle. Arcesium currently has a staff of over 2,600 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

For more information about Arcesium and its capabilities, visit www.arcesium.com and follow the firm on LinkedIn.

 
About Arrowpoint Investment Partners:

Arrowpoint is an investment firm building a differentiated Asia-focused, multi-strategy platform. Learn more at https://arrowpointfund.com/

Arcesium Media Contact:

Ivy Gitarts
Aspectus Group
Ivy.Gitarts@aspectusgroup.com
 

Arrowpoint Investment Partners Media Contact:
media@arrowpointfund.com

 

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