The cheapest tiers
~$1 a GB
- Memory usually oversold
- Cores shared hard, and it shows at peak times
- Storage often capped
- Backups often cost extra
- 72 hours to change your mind
Cheap because the machine is full. Fine until everyone logs on at once.
Minecraft plans
Pick your size
No setup fees, no sneaky overage charges, no surprise renewal price. Every plan gets the same processor, the same fast storage and daily backups, so you are just choosing how much of the machine you want.
Plans
3 vCPU · unmetered NVMe, fair use · slots are yours to set
Minecraft is not on sale yet: these are the real sizes and prices, and the button puts you on the list for when it opens. Prices in USD, billed monthly. Seven-day refund on a first payment, see the refund policy.
Included
The same on every size
- North America East
- Ryzen 7 processors, ECC memory
- Memory reserved, never oversold
- Unmetered NVMe, fair use
- One-click Modrinth modpacks
- Paper, Fabric, Forge and more
- Switch version any time
- Java 8, 17, 21 and 25
- Game DDoS protection
- Daily backups, three kept
- Free MySQL database
- Scheduled tasks
- Full SFTP access
- Subusers
- No slot limit from us
- Live resource graphs
- Sub-servers from 7 GB
- 7-day money back
- Discord support
- Two-step sign-in
Where we sit
Cheap, expensive, and us
Minecraft hosting splits into a cheap tier that packs machines tightly and a premium tier at two to three times the price. We are built like the second and priced under it.
SnowServers
$1.75 a GB
- Memory reserved, never oversold
- Room kept on the machine rather than packed full
- Unmetered NVMe, fair use
- Daily backups, three kept, free
- One-click modpacks, and any version you like
- Seven days to change your mind
Built like the premium tier, priced under it, answered by the person who runs it.
Premium tiers
$2–3 a GB
- Memory reserved
- Threads dedicated to you
- Unmetered NVMe
- Daily backups
- Support rota, faster queue
- 72 hours to change your mind
What good Minecraft hosting costs elsewhere, with a support rota behind it.
The outer two describe what the cheap and premium tiers of the big hosts advertise, not any one company, and not machines we have tested. What we can say about ours is on the hardware page.
Worth two minutes
Where lag comes from
Lag is rarely the chip. It is how many other servers share it. Here is why.
Your server gets one-twentieth of a second
Twenty times every second, your server has to move every mob, grow every crop, fire every redstone circuit and answer every player. It gets 50 milliseconds to do the lot. Finish in time and the game feels smooth. Run out of time and you get the rubber-banding, the hits that do not land, the mobs that skate across the floor. That is the stuff everyone blames on their own internet.
Two things buy you room here: memory, so the world and its mods fit without constant tidying up, and a processor that is not already busy with somebody else's server. Every plan gets both.
What is a vCPU?
A processor core works on two things at once, and each half is a vCPU. So 1 vCPU is about half a core and 3 is about one and a half. On every plan it is a ceiling rather than a reservation, which is what stops one server running away with the machine.
Backups are not an add-on
Every plan is backed up daily and keeps the last three days, at no extra cost. Charging people so they do not lose the world they spent six months building seemed like a rotten way to make money.
Putting one back is a single click, and it does not disturb anything else on your server.
What the first month costs
The discount applies to your first month only, and the price it renews at is shown beside the slider before you pay.
One discount per customer, on your first server. Cancel before the second month and that is the end of it.
Before you decide
The questions people ask
How much memory do I need?
Normal survival with a few friends is happy at 3 or 4 GB. Plugins, a map and a regular group: 6 to 8. Big modpacks are the hungry ones and start at 8. For a large community or a heavy pack, ask before you pick — we would rather point you at the right size than sell you the biggest. If you are unsure, start smaller: moving up takes seconds and your world comes with you.
Is the memory really all mine?
Yes. Your allowance is reserved for your server and nothing else can dip into it, so a busy weekend somewhere else on the machine does not quietly shrink what you have. We sell only what the hardware holds, which is why the plans stop where they do instead of advertising numbers that would need six servers to share one pool.
Can I upgrade without losing my world?
Yes. We just lift the limits on the server you already have. Your world, your plugins, your settings, your address, all untouched. Going back down works the same way, as long as your files fit in the smaller plan.
What if it is not as fast as you claim?
Then do not pay us. Every plan runs on the same processor, and the first month is discounted specifically so finding out costs you little. If it is not what we said it was, say so within seven days of your first payment and we refund it in full.
What happens if I cancel?
It keeps running until the end of the month you already paid for, then pauses. It is not deleted. You get time to download your world and backups before anything goes.
Want to know when it opens?
The Minecraft launch goes to the Discord first. Tell us what you want to run while you are there and we will say which plan fits.