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Minecraft: Java Edition, from $5 a month

Your own Minecraft server

Pick a size, pay, and send your friends the address. Plans start at $5 a month, and the price never goes up when it renews.

  • Ready a minute after you pay
  • Paper, Fabric or Vanilla
  • Daily backups, kept a week
  • Console and files in your browser
  • Friends can help you run it
  • Pay monthly, cancel any time
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Oak$10/mo

  • 4 GB of RAM
  • Up to 15 players
  • 20 GB of storage

Your first real build: a proper survival server.

Start an Oak server

Every size, from 2 GB to 16 GB of RAM

Not sure which size?

Tell us what you’ll play and with how many, and watch where the memory goes. You can move up or down a size any time, and your world comes with you.

What will it run?

Players at once

8 players

How many plugins?

10 plugins

Oak

$10/mo

4 GB of RAM, up to 15 players, 20 GB of storage

Where the RAM goes

3.1 of 4 GB

  • The server 1 GB
  • Players 1.6 GB
  • Plugins 0.5 GB
  • Room to spare 0.9 GB

On Paper: runs plugins, and runs faster than vanilla. A few vanilla glitches, like TNT duping, are fixed.

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Plugins, mods and modpacks

Add anything on Modrinth from your server’s page, in one click. We back the server up, bring along what it needs, and restart it for you. Try it.

Runs plugins, and runs faster than vanilla. A few vanilla glitches, like TNT duping, are fixed. In game: tick rate, pings, /stats.

Paper server · 0 plugins · backed up every day

Paper plugins from Modrinth

Most downloaded

  • LuckPerms3.1M downloads

    A permissions plugin/mod for Minecraft servers.

  • WorldEdit12M downloads

    A Minecraft Map Editor... that runs in-game!

  • Simple Voice Chat78M downloads

    A working voice chat in Minecraft!

  • Chunky21M downloads

    Pre-generates chunks, quickly and efficiently

  • CoreProtect611K downloads

    CoreProtect is a fast, efficient, data logging and anti-griefing tool. Rollback and restore any amount of damage. Designed with large servers in mind, CoreProtect will record and manage data without impacting your server performance.

  • Geyser1.6M downloads

    A bridge/proxy allowing you to connect to Minecraft: Java Edition servers with Minecraft: Bedrock Edition.

  • A backup before every change, so any install can be undone.
  • Whatever a mod needs to run comes with it.
  • Your Minecraft version stays put, so an update can't break what you've added.
  • If a mod crashes the server, its page says which one, and offers the fix.

New: Worlds

One server, every world you want

Keep your survival world, a modpack and a minigame map on the same server, each with its own mods, software and settings. Switch between them in a minute; the one you leave stays exactly as it was.

Survival is live · the others are saved, just as you left them

Pick a World to switch the server to it

Worlds with every server, at no extra cost
2
Worlds with every server, at no extra cost
Worlds at most, with a pack
12
Worlds at most, with a pack
a month for the smallest pack
$2.50
a month for the smallest pack
address for every World, so friends never need a new one
1
address for every World, so friends never need a new one

The dashboard

Your whole server, in a browser

Everything you’d log into a machine for, without the machine: the console, every file, backups, mods, Worlds and who can do what. This is the dashboard itself, with a sample server in it, and the island on top is that server.

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Saturday Survival

Online

MinecraftFabricUS East3 of 15 players on

An update is available for this server

It runs smoother, especially as players join. The server restarts for about a minute. Your world, files and settings stay as they are.

Join Saturday Survival

  1. Open Minecraft
  2. Multiplayer
  3. Add Server
  4. Paste the address
  • PlanOak · 4 GB
  • Runs onFabric
  • CPUNormal, up to 3 cores
  • PlayersUp to 15
  • LocationUS East
  • OwnerYou
Players
3of 15
  • Rowan 38 ms
  • Kai 52 ms
  • Mara 71 ms
CPU
24%of 3 cores
RAM
61%of 4 GB
Tick rate
20.0of 20, smooth
Storage6%of 20 GB
Up for
2 h 14 min
Time per tick
11.2 ms 38 slowest · of 50
Traffic since start
182 MB in · 41 MB out

Quick actions

Pinned here from Automation.

  • Restart the serverClears things up if it starts feeling slow.
  • Save the world nowWrites everything to disk straight away.
  • Clear dropped itemsTidies up loose items lying on the ground.
  • Set the time to dayHandy when someone won't go to bed.

Console

  1. [20:14:02] [Server thread/INFO]: Done (3.412s)! For help, type "help"
  2. [20:15:40] [Server thread/INFO]: Rowan joined the game
  3. [20:16:05] [Server thread/INFO]: Kai joined the game
  4. [20:31:12] [Server thread/INFO]: <Rowan> who took the diamonds
  5. [20:31:20] [Server thread/INFO]: <Kai> not me
  6. [20:33:47] [Server thread/INFO]: Mara joined the game
  7. [20:34:02] [Server thread/INFO]: <Mara> did someone take my diamonds
  8. [20:40:00] [Server thread/INFO]: Saving the game (this may take a moment!)
  9. [20:40:01] [Server thread/INFO]: Saved the game

Extras on every server

We built these ourselves, because we play too. Every one comes with every plan, at no extra cost. Pick one to see what it does.

Advancements

0 of 12 unlocked

Lights On

It tells you why it crashed

When a server keeps crashing, its page reads the crash report for you and says why in plain words: a mod missing something it needs, a mod made only for players' games, too little memory, or a world from other software. Where there's a fix, it's one button.

Ledger needs Fabric Language Kotlin · Install it

Questions, answered

  • Minecraft: Java Edition, on Paper for plugins, Fabric, Forge or NeoForge for mods, Vanilla as Mojang ships it, or a whole modpack from Modrinth. Older versions work too: each server gets the Java its Minecraft version needs. More games are on the way.

  • Yes. A new server runs the newest Minecraft, and you can pick any version its software supports from Settings, older ones included. Once you add plugins or mods it stays on its version, so an update can't break them. Going back to an older version moves your world aside instead of breaking it; nothing is deleted.

  • From $5 a month for a 2 GB Grass, $10 for a 4 GB Oak, up to $40 for a 16 GB Diamond. High CPU adds $5 a month and Realtime adds $10. Pay every 3 months for 5% off, or yearly for 15% off.

  • No. There's no first-month deal and no crossed-out price: what you pay first is what you keep paying.

  • Any time, from the server's Plan page, which also shows what it's using against its plan. A bigger plan is charged for the rest of the period straight away; a smaller one leaves a credit on your next bill. The server restarts at its new size and its world and files come with it.

  • Yes, from Modrinth, in one click on the server's page. Every change takes a backup first, brings along whatever the mod needs, and restarts the server. You can also upload your own jars in the file manager.

  • Separate setups on one server, each with its own world, mods, software and settings, like a survival world and a modpack side by side. One runs at a time, at the same address; switching takes a minute or two and the one you leave stays exactly as it was. Every server keeps 2, and packs add more, up to 12. They share the plan's storage.

  • How much of the machine your server can lean on when it's busy. Everyone shares fairly; High and Realtime keep whole cores just for you, so a busy neighbour never slows you down. Change it any time and it applies at once, without a restart.

  • Every server gets one a day, kept for 7 days, and you can keep 3 of your own for as long as you like. Download any of them, or restore one: a backup of how things are is taken first, so a restore can be undone.

  • Invite them by email as co-owners, moderators or members, and each sees only what their role can use. They never pay; the server's owner does. Everything they change is in the server's audit log.

  • Yes, to one of its co-owners, from Settings. They take over paying for it from the day the period you've paid for ends, so nobody pays twice; the world, its backups and everyone on it stay as they are, and you stay on as a co-owner.

  • Its page says why in plain words: a mod that's missing something, a mod made only for players' games, too little memory, or a world from other software. Where there's a fix, it's a button, and it takes a backup first.

  • It's set up and started within about a minute of paying, with its own address to share.

  • By card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Link, right on our checkout, and right in the dashboard when you add another server, with the cards you've used before. Cancel any time from the server's Billing page and it runs to the end of what you've paid for. Deleting a server stops billing straight away, without a refund for the rest of the period.

  • 13 or over to have an account. Paying needs someone 18 or over, or a parent's go-ahead.

Your friends could be on tonight

Pick a size, pay, and send them the address. It takes about four minutes, and you can change size whenever you like.

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