Server is live in under 5 minutes. Jump straight into installing plugins or building your world.
Vanilla, Spigot, Paper, Purpur, Forge, Fabric, switch between them any time from the panel.
Always-on enterprise mitigation absorbs attacks and keeps your community connected and playing.
Automatic daily backups with one-click restore. Your world is always safe.
Minecraft servers run in our Germany location on fast hardware, in the heart of Europe's internet backbone.
File manager, console, SFTP, and config editing. Full control without the clutter.
Everything you need to manage your server in one place.
For vanilla or a light Paper server with friends, Starter's 2 GB is genuinely enough and the people telling you otherwise are usually running fifty mods. A plugin server with twenty or so regulars and a world that has been explored for a while wants Pro's 4 GB. Modpacks are the real jump: a hundred-and-fifty-mod pack wants Elite's 8 GB before it stops stuttering, because every loaded chunk carries far more to tick. Size for your mod list rather than your player count, and upgrade later without losing the world.
Mods and plugins raise the cost of every chunk, not just the ones people are standing in. Trimming view distance, pre-generating the world instead of letting it build under players, and keeping an eye on chunk loaders usually buys back more performance than the next tier up would.
Paper and Purpur are the answer for plugin servers: fastest of the lot, an enormous plugin library, and nothing for players to install. Forge and NeoForge run the classic modpacks, so pick them when a specific pack decides it for you. Fabric and Quilt are lighter and update to new Minecraft versions far sooner, which suits performance mods and smaller custom packs. Folia exists for very large concurrent worlds, and plain Vanilla when you want exact parity with singleplayer. All nine are a dropdown on the Version page, so a wrong guess costs you a restart.
Paste a CurseForge link or upload a zip and the installer sets up the pack, its mods, and the Java version it needs. Your players install the same pack in their launcher, which is the one part nobody can do for them.
A new Minecraft release lands and half the server wants it that evening. The order that keeps you out of trouble is: take a backup first, check that every plugin and mod you rely on has a build for the target version, switch on the Version page, then start and walk the spawn before you announce anything. Paper usually has a build within days of a release. Modpacks can take months, and starting a pack on a version it was not built for is how worlds get corrupted, so on a modded server the pack sets the pace.
Every plan takes automatic daily backups with one-click restore, which turns a griefed spawn or a bad plugin update into a few minutes of lost progress rather than a lost world. Take a manual backup before anything you would not want to repeat.
Quick answers about setup, mods, locations, and pricing.
Your server is deployed automatically and is ready in under 5 minutes after checkout. Log in to the panel and invite your friends.
Vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Spigot, Folia, Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, and Quilt. You can switch software or Minecraft version any time from the panel's Version page.
Yes. Browse and install 69,000+ mods and 16,000+ plugins right from the panel, or install any CurseForge modpack from a link or zip upload.
Minecraft servers are hosted in Frankfurt, Germany, with DDoS protection included on every plan.
Plans start at $5/month. Use code FANG at checkout for 50% off your first month.
