Minecraft Server Hosting :Rent your Minecraft server from $4.07

All of them, from 1.8 to the latest: pick and switch in one click across Vanilla, Paper, Purpur, Spigot, Forge, NeoForge, Fabric and Quilt.

From NexusPanel, select your CurseForge, Modrinth or FTB modpack from the list: installation, configuration and the correct Java version are handled automatically, with no files to upload.

Vanilla or Paper with a few players needs very little; light Fabric packs want 4-6 GB, most CurseForge packs 8-10 GB, and heavy kitchen-sink packs like RLCraft or All the Mods 12 GB or more. Mods drive RAM, not player count, and our plans scale up to unlimited.

As a rule of thumb: 2-4 GB for vanilla or Paper with a small group, 4-6 GB for Paper plus a solid plugin set, 6-10 GB for a medium modpack, and 12-16 GB or more for kitchen-sink packs like All the Mods or RLCraft. Mods and plugins drive RAM far more than player count does, so size on your pack first. The RAM you order is dedicated to your server and never oversold, and you can move up a plan at any time.

Start by lowering view-distance and simulation-distance in server.properties, those two settings alone recover a lot of TPS on heavy packs. Then pre-generate your chunks so the server is not carving out new terrain while players explore, and start the server with the Aikar JVM flags so the garbage collector suits a Minecraft workload. Watch the live console and your TPS after each change rather than tuning everything at once.

Free offers exist, but the trade-offs are real: RAM is shared between many customers, performance drops at peak times, ads or forced branding are common, backups are unreliable and servers are often suspended after a period of inactivity. A paid plan gives you dedicated RAM, Anti-DDoS, schedulable automatic backups and support 7 days a week. Our entry Minecraft plan starts at $8.12/month with no commitment.

Yes. Velocity or BungeeCord act as a proxy in front of several backend servers (lobby, survival, minigames) so players move between them without reconnecting. You run the proxy and each backend as separate servers and link them through the proxy configuration; Velocity is the modern option and BungeeCord the long-established one.

Nine versions and distributions are preinstalled and selectable from NexusPanel: Vanilla, Paper, Spigot, Purpur, CraftBukkit, Forge, NeoForge, Fabric and Mohist. You switch version or loader in one click, without reinstalling your server or losing your world.

Yes. Bukkit/Spigot plugins install from the panel or via WebFTP; run Paper or Purpur for the best plugin performance.

Minecraft is a paid game. A Nexus Games server is a separate rental that keeps your world online and accessible to your community 24/7.

Nexus Games is rated one of the best Minecraft hosts thanks to AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors, DDR5 ECC memory and Gen4 NVMe storage, with Anti-DDoS included, 1-click Paper/Forge/Fabric modpacks and support 7 days a week.

At Nexus Games a Minecraft server starts at $8.12/month and is billed by the RAM you allocate (light Fabric or vanilla setups stay cheap, heavy modpacks want more) up to $49.96/month for the largest plan. CPU and bandwidth are included and Anti-DDoS is standard.

Minecraft TPS is single-core bound, so the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D with its 5.7 GHz clock and 128 MB 3D V-Cache (used on every Nexus Games Minecraft server) holds a stable 20 TPS even with heavy Forge modpacks and busy worlds.

From a few friends to hundreds on Paper. It depends mainly on RAM and view-distance rather than a hard slot cap; our hardware keeps busy networks lag-free.

Your Minecraft server is hosted in US East, on our Ryzen 9 7950X3D infrastructure with a 1 Gbit/s network and permanent Anti-DDoS protection. That proximity keeps latency low and stable for your players.

Yes. Download the files from your current server (world, configs, mods) and upload them through NexusPanel's WebFTP: you keep your progress, your settings and your add-ons. Our support team can guide you on Discord if needed.

Automatic backups are schedulable from NexusPanel (daily by default, adjustable frequency) and restorable in one click. You can also trigger a manual backup before an update or a mod installation.