Minecraft hosting guides

How to use these Minecraft hosting guides

Start with the number of players, because that affects how much RAM you need more than anything else. Two to five friends on vanilla fit on 4 GB, ten players with plugins need 8 GB and a public server with plugins and fifty players online needs 32 GB. Our guides for Minecraft hosting for 10 players and 50 players explain the calculation, and the Minecraft server RAM calculator works it out for any number of players.

Next, look at what you want to run on your server. Plugins on Paper or Purpur add a little, a modded server with Fabric or Forge mods adds more, and a large modpack from CurseForge or Modrinth can need three times the RAM of a vanilla server, or even more. Read modpack server hosting before you rent a server for one.

Then choose the edition and the location. Java Edition runs on PC, Bedrock on phones, consoles and Windows, and crossplay hosting lets both play in one world through Geyser. Host your server close to where most of your players live: Poland, with Germany as a close second, for Minecraft hosting in Europe, US East, US Central or US West in North America, and Japan, Singapore, India or Sydney further east.

Leave the budget for last. A cheap plan is only a good deal if it is big enough, and a server that crashes every evening will cost you players. Minecraft hosting under €10 shows what €10 a month gets you on each host, and high performance Minecraft hosting explains when reserved Ryzen 9 threads are worth paying extra for. Once you know your answers, the server finder puts them together and shows you the plan that fits best.

When your server is running, give it a website. Every plan from 8 GB at Astroworld Hosting and Lodehost comes with a free Minecraft server website, and our guide on how to make a Minecraft server website takes you from an empty page to a published site with your rules, ranks and server status.