Minecraft Server Hosting

Name: Minecraft Server Hosting
Brand: Nodesty
Availability: InStock

Host your Minecraft server on a Ryzen 9 9950X with NVMe storage and DDoS protection. From a small survival world for friends to a network with hundreds of players, get started with Paper, Forge or Fabric in minutes. Plans start at $5.26 per month.

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Minecraft Server Plans and Pricing

Every plan runs on a Ryzen 9 9950X in Frankfurt. Recommended player counts assume Paper with a reasonable number of plugins; for heavy modpacks, pick the next plan up.

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Minecraft 2GB RAM

$5.26

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Minecraft 4GB RAM

$10.53

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Minecraft 6GB RAM

$15.79

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Minecraft 8GB RAM

$21.05

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Minecraft 10GB RAM

$26.31

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Minecraft 12GB RAM

$31.58

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Minecraft 16GB RAM

$42.10

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Minecraft 24GB RAM

$63.15

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Minecraft 32GB RAM

$84.20

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Minecraft 64GB RAM

$168.41

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How Much RAM Does a Minecraft Server Need?

Three things drive memory use: how many people are online at once, how many chunks are loaded and how many mods or plugins you run. Ten friends on a vanilla world play comfortably with 2–3 GB; the same ten on a 300-mod pack can easily fill 10 GB.

Don't hand all of it to Java. Leave 1–1.5 GB of the plan for the operating system and set the rest as the same value for -Xms and -Xmx, which keeps the garbage collector's behaviour predictable.

Use case	Players	Recommended RAM	Matching plan
Vanilla or Paper, friends server	1–10	2–4 GB	Minecraft 2 GB / 4 GB
Paper + 10–20 plugins (survival, Towny)	20–50	6–8 GB	Minecraft 8 GB
Light modpack (Fabric, 50–150 mods)	5–15	6–8 GB	Minecraft 8 GB
Heavy modpack (All the Mods, 300+ mods)	10–20	10–16 GB	Minecraft 12 GB / 16 GB
Velocity network (lobby + 2–3 game servers)	100+	16–32 GB	Minecraft 24 GB / 32 GB

Older 1.12.2 packs such as RLCraft need less RAM but lean hard on a single core; choose a plan with 4 cores for them.

Paper, Spigot, Forge and Fabric Support

You choose the server software. Anything from Mojang's vanilla server to large modpacks runs on our plans, on any Java Edition version. Which one suits you depends on whether your players will install mods themselves.

Paper and Purpur

The first choice for plugin servers. Paper is compatible with Spigot plugins and noticeably faster than vanilla at chunk loading and entity processing. Purpur adds extra configuration on top of Paper.

Spigot

The foundation of the Bukkit plugin ecosystem. Some older plugins only run on Spigot; for a fresh setup, Paper performs better.

Forge and NeoForge

Most large modpacks use Forge or its successor NeoForge. Players need the same mods installed; you can upload the server files of CurseForge and Modrinth packs directly.

Fabric

A lightweight, quickly updated mod loader. Ideal for boosting performance with optimisation mods like Lithium and FerriteCore without changing the vanilla experience.

Java and Bedrock together

With the Geyser and Floodgate plugins, Bedrock players on phones, consoles and Windows can join your Java server. All you need is UDP port 19132 open.

Any version you like

Run anything from a 1.8 PvP server to the latest release. 1.20.5 and later require Java 21, 1.18 to 1.20.4 require Java 17; just install the matching Java version.

How to Set Up a Minecraft Server

Setting up a Minecraft server takes a few steps and no port forwarding on your home router. If you choose Minecraft when installing the operating system, the first three steps are done for you.

1Pick the plan that fits your player count above and complete your order.
2Choose Minecraft during the operating system installation; the server files and Java come preinstalled.
3Connect over SSH or SFTP and set the server name (motd), player limit and game mode in server.properties.
4On Paper, upload plugin .jar files to the plugins folder; on a modded server, put mods in the mods folder.
5Start the server. The world is generated on first launch and you'll be asked to set the agreement in eula.txt to true.
6Make yourself an operator with op username in the console and turn on the whitelist if you need it.
7Share the server's IP address with your players. The default port is 25565, so they don't need to type it. You can also point an A record at the IP to use an address like mc.yourdomain.com.

Moving from another host? Copy the world, world_nether and world_the_end folders together with your plugin configs. If you prefer, our team will do the migration for free.

Building a Network with BungeeCord and Velocity

To run a lobby, survival, skyblock and minigames on separate servers and move players between them, you use a proxy. Velocity is the recommended proxy today; BungeeCord still works, but Velocity uses fewer resources and is more robust security-wise.

Each backend server in a network is its own Java process and needs its own RAM. That's why plans with 24 GB or more let you keep several servers on one machine. Make sure backend servers only listen on ports the proxy can reach and handle online-mode through the proxy.

Location and Latency: Frankfurt, Germany

Our servers run in a data centre in Frankfurt, one of Europe's busiest internet hubs. Players across Western and Central Europe connect with low latency, and even from Istanbul the measured latency is 30–50 ms.

In Minecraft, that's more than enough for PvP hits and block breaking to feel instant. If your community is spread across Europe, a central location like Frankfurt keeps ping balanced for everyone rather than favouring one country.

Minecraft Server Performance Tips

A Minecraft server aims for 20 ticks per second; once a tick takes longer than 50 ms, players feel lag. The Ryzen 9 9950X's high clock speed matters most here, but a few settings take even more load off your server.

Pre-generate the world

Pre-generating a bounded area with the Chunky plugin removes the spikes caused by players exploring new terrain.

Balance view distance

Keeping view-distance around 8–10 and simulation-distance around 6–8 gives the best balance on most servers.

Use Aikar's flags

The Aikar JVM flags recommended by Paper tune the G1 garbage collector for Minecraft and reduce stutters caused by memory clean-up.

Measure the bottleneck

The spark plugin shows which plugin or which part of the world is increasing tick time; fix what you measure instead of guessing.

Why Nodesty?

A Minecraft server needs single-core speed, fast storage and a stable connection. We picked our infrastructure around those three.

5.7 GHz Ryzen 9 9950X

Most game servers run their main loop on a single core. High clock speed keeps tick times low even when the server is packed.

L3–L7 DDoS protection

nShield's 3+ Tbps of capacity protects every layer from L3 to L7. Protection is enabled on every plan at no extra cost.

NVMe storage

Worlds, maps and databases live on NVMe drives, so saves cause fewer hitches and restarts are faster.

Pick your game at install

Choose your game when installing the operating system and your server arrives with the game software ready. Reinstall from the same screen whenever you like.

Free backups and migration

Automatic daily backups are kept for 7 days. Our team will move your server from another provider for free.

24/7 support

Open a ticket for connection, port or attack issues; our team responds around the clock.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to your questions

How much does Minecraft server hosting cost?

Plans start at $5.26 per month for 2 GB of RAM and step up with more memory. DDoS protection, NVMe storage and daily backups are included in every plan, and you can also pay quarterly, semi-annually or annually.

How many players can join my Minecraft server?

Can I install mods and plugins?

Can Bedrock players join my server?

How long does setup take?

Can I move my server from another host?

Are backups included?

What happens during a DDoS attack?

Can I upgrade my plan later?

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