HOW IT WORKS
From recycling center → your kid’s screen.
We rescue business servers destined for landfill, install them at our recycling center, and turn them into moderated game worlds. Here’s the whole pipeline in plain English.
A city or business retires a server
TechHaulers is a certified electronics recycler. Municipal offices, schools, and small businesses send us their old servers when they upgrade. Most of them still have years of life left.
We wipe it and set it up as a game host
Every drive is DoD-wiped and re-imaged. We install Ubuntu Server, Pterodactyl (a game-server control panel), and the actual Minecraft (Paper) and Terraria (TShock) game software.
Your kid signs up with a parent
A parent creates the account, verifies with a $0.50 card auth (COPPA-required), and links their kid. The parent picks the servers the kid can join and sets a screen-time cap if they want.
Kids connect and play
Join a free public world (Survival, Creative, Skyblock, Terraria Journey) or rent a private world. In-game chat is streamed to our moderator in real time — see the Safety page for details.
Everything is logged in triplicate
Every chat line and player action is written to three separate stores immediately. Parents can request their child's full lifetime history any time, exported as a signed PDF.
What we run right now
- • 3× recycled 1U rack servers (Dell R720 / HP DL380 Gen8 class)
- • 2× business fiber uplinks (Optimum, static IPs) with automatic failover
- • Cloudflare in front for DDoS protection and DNS
- • Free tier: 4 public Minecraft worlds + 2 Terraria worlds
- • Paid tier: private per-family Minecraft or Terraria worlds, $4.99–$14.99/mo