Minecraft Java Edition Server Hosting

Vanilla and lightly plugged Paper servers are comfortable on 2 to 6 GB for a handful of friends. Plugin servers with a world border, an economy and a few dozen players sit naturally at 8 GB, which is why it is our most popular tier. Large modpacks are the expensive case: Forge and Fabric packs with hundreds of mods routinely want 12 to 16 GB before they stop stuttering on chunk generation.

Because pricing is a flat $2.50 per GB of RAM, sizing up is a prorated billing change rather than a migration. Cores follow memory on our tiers: three up to 6 GB, four at 8 GB, and five from 12 GB upward, which matters for pregeneration and for the async work Paper offloads from the main thread.

Bukkit, Spigot and Paper plugins drop into the plugins folder through the panel file manager or over SFTP, and the live console shows load errors immediately so a bad plugin version is obvious on the next restart. The modpack installer handles CurseForge and Modrinth packs directly, and the server-type installer switches the underlying jar without wiping your world.

For Forge and Fabric, remember that clients need a matching mod set — the console prints the handshake failure when a player joins with the wrong version. Automatic daily backups with ten rolling slots mean you can add an overhaul pack and roll back within minutes if it breaks the world.

We host Minecraft in 9 locations across the United States, Canada, Belgium and Germany. Pick the one nearest most of your players: distance sets your floor for latency, and no amount of hardware fixes a transatlantic route. You can measure live round-trip times to every location from your browser before ordering.

Once you are close, the levers that actually move tick rate are view distance, simulation distance, entity limits and pregenerated chunks. Chunk generation is the heaviest thing a Minecraft server does, so pregenerating a world border on NVMe storage removes most mid-session lag spikes, and the panel scheduler can run restarts overnight to keep memory clean.