Choosing the right hosting plan

Picking the wrong plan is the most common mistake new server owners make. Too small and you lag out; too large and you waste budget.

Understanding your workload

Different games have wildly different resource footprints.

• Minecraft (Paper) — RAM-bound. CPU matters less unless you run heavy redstone.
• FiveM — CPU-bound due to Lua scripting and database queries.
• Rust / ARK — Both RAM and CPU heavy. These games love fast single-thread performance.
• Web hosting — I/O-bound. NVMe storage and fast network matter more than raw CPU.

RAM sizing

• 2-4 GB — Small vanilla Minecraft, Terraria, or low-traffic web hosting
• 4-8 GB — Medium Minecraft with 20-40 players, or FiveM up to 48 slots
• 8-16 GB — Large modded Minecraft, FiveM 64-128 slots, or Rust with 50+ players
• 16+ GB — Heavy mod packs, large FiveM clusters, or multi-game nodes

Always monitor actual usage after a week of live traffic, then resize.

CPU and single-thread performance

Most game servers are single-threaded. A CPU with high clock speed (3.5 GHz+) beats one with more slow cores.

• Check your server's mspt (Minecraft) or sv_mainThread (FiveM) metrics
• If values exceed 50 ms consistently, you need more single-thread power
• Consider upgrading to a dedicated core plan for competitive communities

Storage considerations

Our plans use NVMe SSD storage standard. For most users this is more than enough.

• Minecraft worlds grow ~100 MB per thousand chunks generated
• FiveM with custom maps and vehicles can easily exceed 20 GB
• Enable automatic cleanup of old logs and crash dumps to save space

Network and DDoS

All plans include unmetered traffic and DDoS protection.

• Starter — 100 Mbps (fine for < 50 players)
• Growth — 500 Mbps (good for most mid-size communities)
• Pro — 1 Gbps (recommended for large clusters)

Upgrade path

You can upgrade anytime without data loss. The process takes 2-5 minutes and preserves your world, config, and database. Downgrades are also supported.