Minecraft server hosting

How much RAM your Minecraft server needs depends on a couple of factors:

• - Which version you use
• - The amount of plugins you use
• - The amount of mods you use
• - The amount of players that play on your server at the same time

Version

Different Minecraft versions have different minimum RAM requirements for the server to run properly. A server running version 1.12.2 or lower needs at least 512 MB RAM to work. For 1.13 at least 1 GB RAM is required, for 1.14, 1.15 and 1.16 a minimum of 1.5 GB is needed, and 1.17 requires at least 2 GB. These minimum requirements are based on a Vanilla server (without plugins or mods) with a couple of players online.

Plugins

Every plugin you install on your server uses RAM. The more plugins you want to use, the more RAM you'll need. How much RAM a specific plugin uses varies wildly. It very much depends on what the plugin does.

Mods

The same rules that apply for plugins apply for mods too. However, in general a mod uses more RAM than a plugin.

Players

Just like plugins and mods every player uses RAM as soon as they are playing on the server.

We support every version and every mod pack. To make playing these easy we've got a list of versions you can use to install your favorite version with one click.