Game server hosting
Minecraft server hosting
Minecraft server hosting with 4 GB of dedicated RAM at €10.99 a month, VAT included. Paper, Spigot, Forge, Fabric and Bedrock from the one-click installer, or upload a CurseForge server pack over SFTP and run it as it comes.
Stripe-secured payments · unused wallet credit refundable · no minimum term, cancel any time · EU company, VAT LT100016340412
Hosting Minecraft
What actually matters on a Minecraft server
Minecraft ticks the world on a single thread, so what limits a busy server is per-core clock and how many entities, hoppers and loaded chunks you are asking it to walk 20 times a second, not how much RAM you bought. RAM decides how much world and code you can hold at once: Paper with 15 plugins sits comfortably under 3 GB, while a 300-mod Forge pack will happily eat 6 GB before anyone logs in. The layout difference catches people out too, because Paper and Spigot keep the Nether and End as sibling folders (world_nether, world_the_end) while vanilla, Fabric and NeoForge nest DIM-1 and DIM1 inside the world folder, so a world carried between the two looks like the Nether has been wiped until the folders are moved.
What 4 GB realistically runs
4 GB is a genuinely comfortable Paper or Spigot server: 20 to 30 players on an SMP with 10 to 20 plugins at view 8 / simulation 6, or a vanilla or Fabric setup with the usual performance mods (Lithium, FerriteCore, ModernFix) at 10 to 15 players. Leave headroom below the container limit for the JVM itself, since metaspace, GC structures and off-heap buffers all live outside the Java heap; a heap around 3 to 3.5 GB is the sane setting on a 4 GB box, and setting -Xmx to the full 4 GB is how you get killed by the container instead of a clean heap error. Modpacks are the honest limit: a 150 to 250 mod Forge or NeoForge pack will run for roughly 3 to 6 players, and the big kitchen-sink packs with 400+ mods and heavy chunk-loading tech mods really do want 8 GB or more. If you land there, email us and we will resize the same day. World size grows with every chunk anyone visits, so a heavily explored map is far larger on disk than a fresh one. The Nether stays comparatively small, because one block of Nether travel covers eight overworld blocks and so generates a fraction of the chunks for the same territory.
After checkout
Getting your Minecraft server running
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Pick the server software before you generate a world
Paper or Spigot if you want plugins (server-side only, nothing for players to install, dropped into /plugins). Fabric, Forge or NeoForge if you want mods, which live in /mods and must also be installed by every player at the matching version. Bedrock Dedicated Server if your group is on mobile or Windows — note that consoles cannot type a custom server address into vanilla Bedrock, only mobile and Windows 10/11 clients can add one. Plugins and mods are not interchangeable, and from CurseForge you want the server pack, not the client zip. Also check Java: 1.20.5 and newer need Java 21, old 1.12.2 Forge packs need Java 8, so tell us which you are running and we will set the right Java image on your container.
- 2
Accept the EULA, then decide on online-mode once
The first boot writes eula.txt and stops until it is set to true, which is the single most common 'my server will not start'. Leave online-mode=true unless you have a real reason not to: with it off, anyone can join as any username, and switching it later changes every player's UUID, which means inventories, homes, claims and permissions all come back empty. Add operators and whitelist entries from the console with /op and /whitelist add rather than editing ops.json or whitelist.json while the server is running, because the server rewrites those files on shutdown and your edits vanish.
- 3
Turn the distances down and pre-generate the world
On 4 GB, view-distance 8 and simulation-distance 6 in server.properties is the biggest low-effort win there is; the defaults are tuned for a machine running one player, not twenty spread across a map. Then install Chunky, set a world border and pre-generate a 3,000 to 5,000 block radius before opening day, so live chunk generation is not competing with the tick loop while everyone sprints in different directions. Pre-generating also means you find out how big the world will get on disk before it surprises you.
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Give players an address they can type
The panel hands you an IP and a port. For Java players, an SRV record (_minecraft._tcp.yourdomain) pointing at that host and port lets them connect with just play.yourdomain.com and no port. Bedrock clients enter the IP and UDP port by hand. If you want crossplay, run Paper or Fabric with Geyser and Floodgate and email [email protected] so we add the extra UDP allocation, because Bedrock speaks RakNet over UDP and will not ride on the Java TCP port.
Mods & how far you can go
Run any Minecraft setup you want
- Online in about 60 seconds
- 1-click mod & plugin installer
- Full file access (SFTP + web editor)
- Automated backups
- Free MySQL database
- DDoS protection included
- Console, metrics & crash auto-restart
- RAM upgrades on request, same day
Hosting for European players? See our guide to Minecraft server hosting in Europe.
Test your latency to our network
Measures the round trip from your connection to our EU-Central edge, right now.
This is an HTTPS round trip to our web edge, which typically reads a little higher than in-game ping. Treat it as an upper bound, not a promise.
How much RAM do you need?
Your Minecraft plan ships with 4 GB. Player counts below are the practical limit before tick-rate suffers — mods and plugins matter more than raw player count.
| RAM | Players | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| 2 GB | 1–4 | Vanilla worlds, small co-op, Terraria |
| 4 GB | 5–15 | Vanilla+ with plugins, light modpacks, most survival servers |
| 6 GB | 10–25 | Mid-size modpacks, Satisfactory and 7 Days to Die worlds |
| 8 GB | 20–40 | Heavy modpacks, ARK with mods, busy community servers |
Picked the wrong size? Email us and we will resize your server the same day — you keep the world, the files and the address.
How ordering works
- 1
Create a free account
Email and password at client.puranode.com. No card needed to look around.
- 2
Add credit
Top up your wallet by card through Stripe. Your balance pays for servers as they renew.
- 3
Pick your server
Choose the game and plan — it installs automatically and is online in about 60 seconds.
Your servers live in the client panel at client.puranode.com — a separate app from this site, run by the same company.
Stripe handles the card
Payments run through Stripe. Puranode never sees or stores your card number.
VAT included
The price you see is the price you pay. No tax added at the last step.
No minimum term
Billed every 30 days. Cancel from the panel any time — no cancellation fee.
Credit is refundable
Unused wallet credit can be refunded to your original card on request.
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FAQ
Minecraft server hosting — FAQ
Can Java and Bedrock players join the same Minecraft server?
Not out of the box. They are different server binaries on different network stacks, Java on TCP 25565 and Bedrock on UDP 19132, and the world formats do not match either (Java uses region files, Bedrock uses LevelDB). The normal route is a Paper or Fabric server running Geyser and Floodgate, which translates Bedrock clients onto your Java world; that needs a second UDP allocation, so email [email protected] and we will add one to your server. If everyone you play with is on mobile or Windows, run Bedrock Dedicated Server instead (consoles cannot add a custom server address in vanilla Bedrock), but note it uses add-ons and allow-list.json rather than Bukkit plugins and whitelist.json, so plugin guides you find online will not apply.
My server still lags even though there is free RAM. What is actually wrong?
Almost always tick time, not memory. Minecraft ticks the world 20 times a second, which gives you 50 ms per tick, and once the work in a tick exceeds that, TPS drops and everything feels rubbery no matter how much RAM is idle. The usual culprits are entity count (mob farms, item piles, bred animals), hopper chains, permanently loaded chunks and a simulation distance set too high. Install spark, run /spark tps and /spark profiler, and it will name the offending mod, plugin or chunk directly. Paper dropped Timings in the 1.21 line, so spark is the tool to reach for now. Because the world tick is single-threaded, more RAM does not buy you tick headroom, and neither would more cores.
How do I update to a new Minecraft version without breaking my plugins or my world?
Take a manual backup first, and treat the world upgrade as one-way: once a newer jar has opened and rewritten your region files, the old jar will not load that world again. After a Mojang drop, Paper builds usually appear within days, Fabric API follows quickly and NeoForge or Forge takes longer, so anything with mods should wait for the loader before you touch the jar. If you run a modpack, follow the pack's version rather than Mojang's, which is why 1.12.2, 1.16.5 and 1.20.1 servers are still very much alive. Nothing on our side auto-updates your server jar, so your version stays exactly where you put it until you change it. Check the Java requirement at the same time, since a version jump is the usual cause of a server that suddenly refuses to start.
How much does a Minecraft server cost?
Minecraft server hosting at Puranode starts at €10.99 per month for a 4 GB server, VAT included. It's a flat price — what you sign up at is what you renew at, with no setup fees and cancel anytime.
How quickly is my Minecraft server online?
Your Minecraft server is created and fully installed automatically, usually in about 60 seconds after checkout. You then open the panel, press start and copy your connect address.
Can I install mods and plugins on my Minecraft server?
Yes. Minecraft supports Paper, Spigot, Forge, Fabric, Bukkit plugins, Modpacks and Java & Bedrock — install from a one-click menu or upload your own files over SFTP. There is no artificial limit.
Where are the servers located?
Puranode runs on EPYC + NVMe hardware in the EU (Finland), which gives low latency for European players. Puranode is operated by MB VARIANTAI, an EU company in Lithuania, and prices include VAT.
Can I move my existing Minecraft server to Puranode?
Yes. Upload your existing world and config over SFTP, or contact us and we'll help migrate it — free for the first setup.
Deploy your Minecraft server now
Create a free account, add credit and your server is online in about 60 seconds.