Stalker / Ministra middleware on unmetered bare-metal.
Run the STB middleware for MAG, Aura and Infomir boxes on iron built for IPTV — unmetered 25 Gbit/s ports, 1.6 Tbit/s DDoS scrubbing, NVMe for the subscriber database, and a Storage Vault for VOD and catch-up. Deploy a tuned panel in hours.
Why an IPTV panel needs real iron.
IPTV panels are prime DDoS targets — rivals rent a $5 booter the moment you take subscribers. Every Stalker box sits behind 1.6 Tbit/s of always-on L3-L7 scrubbing, so your portal and streams stay up through it.
Thousands of set-top boxes hammering the portal for EPG, VOD lists and auth pin the database. Enterprise NVMe keeps MySQL and the middleware responsive at peak hour, not just at 3am.
Every active line pulls a live stream; a mid-size panel pushes terabytes a day. On a metered host that's a 95th-percentile blow-up. Here the 25 Gbit/s port is unmetered — subscriber growth doesn't move the invoice.
Keep the panel fast on NVMe and put the movie library and catch-up archive on a Storage Vault — hundreds of terabytes of on-demand content without touching the portal node.
Sized for Stalker / Ministra.
Starter / Production / High-load — with capacity in the metrics that matter for this app.
- CPUEPYC 7402P · 24c
- RAM128 GB
- Storage2× 3.84 TB NVMe
- Port25 Gbit/s
- Trafficunmetered
- CPUEPYC 9354 · 32c
- RAM128 GB
- Storage4× 3.84 TB NVMe
- Port40 Gbit/s
- Trafficunmetered
- CPU2× EPYC 9354
- RAM256 GB
- StorageNVMe + Storage Vault archive
- Port100 Gbit/s
- Trafficunmetered
On by default.
The middleware stack deployed and tuned — nginx, PHP, MySQL and the portal — behind HTTPS, with the REST/admin API enabled. You bring the license; we bring the tuned box.
25 / 40 / 100 Gbit/s at flat pricing — no per-GB egress, no 95th-percentile surprise when your subscriber count doubles.
1.6 Tbit/s L3-L7 scrubbing in front of the portal and every stream. Filtering starts inside 10 seconds, no manual null-route.
Attach a Storage Vault for the movie library and catch-up TV — record channels, serve on demand, scale into hundreds of terabytes.
Put dedicated edge cache nodes across our four PoPs in front of the panel for multi-region delivery and lower latency to subscribers.
Amsterdam, Warsaw, Kyiv or Miami — single-tenant server, you choose EU-resident or a non-EU jurisdiction.
Stalker / Ministra IPTV panel hosting — unmetered, DDoS-protected
Stalker Middleware (now Ministra) is the control plane behind IPTV services that run on MAG, Aura and other Infomir set-top boxes: it manages subscribers and tariffs, serves the on-screen portal and EPG, and ties channels, VOD and catch-up together. It's software that lives and dies on two things — surviving attacks and keeping a busy database fast — and both come down to the hardware under it.
Hostfory runs Stalker on iron built for IPTV. Every server sits behind 1.6 Tbit/s of always-on DDoS scrubbing, because panels are constant booter targets; enterprise NVMe keeps the portal database quick when tens of thousands of set-top boxes poll it at once; and the 25 / 40 / 100 Gbit/s port is unmetered, so streaming to every subscriber costs a flat monthly price instead of a per-gigabyte egress bill. When your catalogue grows you attach a Storage Vault for VOD and catch-up, and put dedicated edge nodes in front for multi-region delivery.
It's a single-tenant server in the jurisdiction you choose — Amsterdam or Warsaw for the EU, Kyiv for a non-EU jurisdiction, Miami for the Americas. Servers provision in a few hours with the middleware stack installed and secured behind HTTPS; you bring your Stalker/Ministra license and go live the same day.
Stalker / Ministra questions, answered.
Do you include a Stalker / Ministra license?
Is the panel protected from DDoS?
Is the bandwidth really unmetered?
How many active lines can one server handle?
Where do VOD and catch-up live?
Can I run a multi-region setup?
Where are the servers, and how private are they?
Deploy Stalker / Ministra today.
In-stock configs provision in 1–3 hours. Migration from another host is on us.