One size down · 4 GB
Mini
Half the memory, for a vanilla world or just a few plugins.
Starter · 8 GB
Is Starter the right size for you?
Starter is where plugins and small modpacks fit
Starter has 8 GB of memory and is the plan most people choose on Lodehost. It is the first size with room for a proper plugin server or a small modpack, and the first one with a free website for your server included.
Starter gives you 8 GB of memory and 2 vCPU, with 60 GB Enterprise NVMe in Germany on the Performance line and 75 GB of disk in the other locations and in Germany on the Standard line.
8 GB memory
2 vCPU
Daily backups included
Free website included
What that carries on Starter
A plugin server with its own character
Ranks, an economy, shops, land claims and a couple of minigames on Paper. Every plugin keeps its data in memory, and 8 GB lets them all run next to each other.
A small modpack
A lighter pack from CurseForge, FTB or Modrinth, installed in one click with its configs. Small packs add new blocks, mobs and machines without the appetite of the huge collections.
A community that is starting to grow
Regular players, a Discord and a few people helping to run things. Staff get their own logins, and the free website gives newcomers a page with your rules and the address.
- Better MC or All the Mods Lite: a medium modpack with somewhere between one and two hundred mods, played by one group of friends.
- A Paper server with twenty or thirty plugins and a world that keeps growing; at 8 GB the fighting over memory stops.
What it will not carry on Starter
Bigger modpacks
Packs with hundreds of mods load far more into memory before anyone joins. On Lodehost those start at Standard, and the heaviest ones at Premium.
Several worlds at the same time
A lobby with separate survival and creative worlds behind it keeps more loaded at once than a single world does. Several busy worlds side by side are what Premium is sized for.
- The heaviest packs with render distance pushed past the default of ten chunks. Those want twelve gigabytes, and they eat processor time as well as memory.
- A lobby in front of several worlds. That is a network, and a network is more than 8 GB carries; they begin at Premium.
Germany
Starter on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
With Germany under Server location, Starter runs on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X when you pick Germany on the Performance line. Its own address has Germany already selected and lists the full specification.
One size up · 12 GB
Standard
More memory, for bigger modpacks and a busier server.
Stuttering during world generation with a heavy pack is the usual sign to move up: Standard adds €4.00 per month and gives you 12 GB, 3 vCPU and 100 GB of disk outside Germany and in Germany on the Standard line.
Outside Germany and in Germany on the Standard line, Starter has 75 GB of disk, and it carries a modpack, the world and a stack of daily backups with room to spare. Keep an eye on it anyway: modded chunks store more data per block, so a modpack world grows faster than a vanilla one.
Getting a Starter server ready for players
Pick the server type before building: Paper for plugins, or Forge or Fabric when you want a modpack. Installing a pack from the panel brings its configs along, so you do not have to match versions by hand.
On a plugin server, install what protects the world first, such as land claims and chest locks, and the fun plugins after that. Open the console after each restart: a plugin that fails to load says so there, often together with the name of the plugin it was waiting for.
Set up the free website while the server is still quiet. Put the address, the rules and a short story about the server on it, so new players know what to expect before they join and you are not answering the same questions in chat every evening.
Invite one or two people you trust as staff, each with their own permissions. As the server gets busier, notice whether it stays smooth at the busiest hour; if it starts to struggle, moving to Standard keeps everything and takes about as long as a restart.
Want the full breakdown of this Starter plan, with the price on every term and what runs comfortably on it? The price on every term is in the order card above, and what runs comfortably on it is in the two lists at the top of this block. The Starter plan page puts the sizes we list next to each other, with the monthly price of each. Not sure about the size, or whether Starter at 8 GB is the one? The RAM guide works it out in one sentence: memory decides how many players and how many mods fit, so the answer comes from your player count and your modpack.
Notes on what you are choosing
Everything below is about this order and about Starter in particular. It is here because a price and four fields do not answer the questions people actually ask us in the last minute before they pay:
- What machine is under it?
- When does it arrive?
- What happens to my world at night?
- What exactly comes off my card today?
Not this size after all? Back to the plans. Ready to order but the first field is still empty? Name your server first.
Where it runs, and what the location changes
The location you pick is not only about distance. It decides which machine your world lands on, so the specification above changes with it.
Germany (EU), Performance lineincluded in the plan price- Germany (EU), Standard lineincluded in the plan price
United Kingdom€1.50 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours
US (East)€2.00 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours- US (Central)€1.50 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours
- US (West)€1.50 a month on top of the plan price, delivered within 48 hours
Poland (Warsaw)included in the plan price, delivered within 6 hours during the day and 12 hours at night
Choose the place most of your players are nearest to. The distance between them and the server is most of the delay they notice, so it matters more than where you live yourself.
Germany
Starter runs on a machine of our own here: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with 60 GB Enterprise NVMe. That is Germany on the Performance line. In Germany on the Standard line, Starter runs on a shared server processor with 75 GB of disk, as in the other locations.
Minecraft works through its whole world on a single thread twenty times a second, so a core that gets further inside those fifty milliseconds does more for your server than an extra core would. The disk matters for the same reason: loading chunks and saving the world both happen inside that same tick. A second core still earns its keep, because the network traffic of every player and plugins that do their work off the main thread run beside the tick instead of inside it, while the tick itself stays on one core. Those twenty ticks a second are not a number we invented; they are the clock Minecraft itself runs on.
Germany on the Performance line costs nothing on top of the plan price of that machine, €15.95 a month, and it is the location we hand over fastest. Germany on the Standard line costs nothing on top either, at €12.95 a month, the plan price of the other locations.
This size also has an address of its own with Germany chosen, and the full specification of this size is on it: the full specification of the Starter plan.
United Kingdom, US (East), US (Central), US (West)
In these regions, and in Germany on the Standard line, Starter comes with 75 GB of disk. It is the right choice for a vanilla world, a plugin server or a modpack that is not at the heavy end, and it is the only way to sit close to players who do not live near Germany. The surcharge per region is in the selector, next to the name of each location. Whichever of them you pick, the machine stands in that region itself, and your players connect to it there rather than by way of Germany.
The order card above shows the processor and the storage for whichever location you select.
Poland
The Performance line on this page can also stand in Warsaw, on our newest machine: the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with DDR5 RAM, for the same price as the Performance line in Germany. Pick Poland (Warsaw) under Server location to get it. That machine is added when the first order for Warsaw comes in, so delivery there is within 6 hours during the day and within 12 hours at night instead of within the hour. In Germany the Performance line keeps running on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X.
The same plan on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Germany
Want more speed? Upgrade this size to the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Germany: faster cores, your own NVMe slice and a faster port. That is the address of this same 8 GB, with Germany and the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X chosen from the start, instead of by picking Germany on the Performance line here. Open the full specification of the Starter plan.
A growing server draws players from further away. Check where your regular players are before choosing, because the location stays fixed once the server is built.
What arrives, and when
You get a server that is already installed and an address your friends can type, with no port number behind it. That address is the one thing you share with the people who join.
Most orders are handed over instantly. If a machine has to be prepared first, it is within the hour during the day and within twelve hours at night, and you can watch it happen in your panel instead of waiting for an email.
That goes for Germany on the Performance line. In the other locations, United Kingdom, US (East), US (Central) and US (West), delivery takes up to 48 hours, and the order summary above shows the time for the location you pick. For Germany on the Standard line, it shows that time as well. In Poland (Warsaw), delivery is within 6 hours during the day and within 12 hours at night.
Nothing about Starter is set up by hand, so the 8 GB and the 2 vCPU are there from the first minute. The whole setup runs by itself after the payment: what you pick at the top of this page is set before the server is handed over, so there is nothing about the order left for you to set afterwards.
If you already know which modpack you want, install it from the panel straight after delivery, before anyone starts exploring the default world.
Your world at night
A backup is made for you every night, on this plan and on every other one, and that costs nothing extra. You keep up to ten of them, as many as fit the storage that comes with Starter, and you restore one yourself with a single click.
The one that rolls off the end is not thrown away: it waits another seven days in a bin, so a mistake you only notice on Tuesday is still fixable.
You can also download a backup to your own computer whenever you like, and keep it for as long as you want after you stop paying us.
Configs change often on a server this size, and a daily backup means an experiment that breaks something costs you at most one day.
On this plan, without paying extra
A panel we built and run ourselves, with a live console and a real file manager. The console reads out the logs line by line as the server writes them, so the line with an error in it is there when you look, and the file manager edits the files right in your browser.- One click installs for plugins and modpacks, and switching server type or game version without starting a new world.
- DDoS filtering in front of your address as standard, and a free subdomain.
And because Starter is 8 GB, a free website for your server, hosted by us with its own address. You put it together in an editor in your panel, without writing any markup.
Help moving a world over from another host, with your plugins and settings intact. Tell us where the server runs today and what is on it, and we take it from there. If you already have a download of the world, you can also upload it yourself in the file manager, together with your own jar or modpack.
Staff get their own login with permissions you choose per person, for up to fifteen people, so nobody needs your password. Whitelist, bans and operators have their own place in the panel, which saves typing commands. Your account can use two step login, and incoming attacks are filtered before they reach the network.
On Starter the file manager earns its keep: plugin configs and modpack settings are edited right in the browser, without downloading anything first.
A plugin server that moves to Starter brings its plugin folders and their data along, so ranks, homes and claims are still there on the first day.
Send us a message about the move
Friends on phones or tablets? See how Crossplay lets Bedrock players join
What you pay, and when
€15.95a month for Starter on the monthly term, with Germany on the Performance line as the location.
Starter is €12.95 a month in United Kingdom, US (East), US (Central), US (West), plus the surcharge for the region you pick, and €15.95 a month in Germany on the Performance line, where it runs on the AMD Ryzen 9 5900X. In Germany on the Standard line, Starter is €12.95 a month, with no surcharge. Whichever location you pick, the amount on the card above is the amount on your invoice as well.
The four terms in the field above are the same server with the same resources; what differs is how often it is collected, and on the yearly term each month costs €11.95 instead of €12.95 in those locations and in Germany on the Standard line, and €14.95 instead of €15.95 in Germany on the Performance line.
Monthly
€12.95, plus the surcharge for your region, or €15.95 in Germany on the Performance line, leaves your account on the day you order and again on that date every month after it, with an invoice for each payment in your account. Cancel from your panel before the next renewal and it simply stops; there is no fee for leaving and nobody to phone.
Yearly
€143.40 in one go outside Germany and in Germany on the Standard line, before the surcharge for your region, and then nothing for twelve months. That is twelve times €11.95: a 7 percent discount on the monthly price of €12.95, and still not a longer contract in disguise. In Germany on the Performance line the yearly term is €179.40 in one go, twelve times €14.95. You can move to monthly at the next renewal, and a world you built on a yearly term stays yours either way. On that term the whole amount leaves your account once a year.
6 months and 24 months
The same server can also be paid for six or twenty-four months at once, like on the yearly term: €71.70 for six months, which is €11.95 a month, or €262.80 for twenty-four months, which is €10.95 a month outside Germany and in Germany on the Standard line, before the surcharge for your region. The term renews at the same amount, and you can move to a shorter term at the next renewal.
Due today in the order summary is what is charged when you continue, and the note under Billing term says how the plan renews. You can cancel at any time without a cancellation fee. Cancel at least three days before the renewal date and nothing more is charged; the server keeps running until the end of the period you paid for, and your files stay available for seven days after that.
Starter is the plan most people pick here, and the first one where a free website for the server is part of the monthly price.
Why we ask you to sign in first
The server is put on your account, and your invoices, your backups and your console all sit behind that same login. So we need to know who you are before the payment; otherwise there is a paid server with no owner and a panel you cannot reach.
Signing in takes one screen, and you come straight back here with these choices still filled in. No account yet? You create one on that screen, before the payment, and the server arrives in that account.
The payment itself
The payment runs on the page of our payment provider and not on ours, so your card details never touch our servers. You will see Starter on the summary there with the term you picked, and after it you land in your panel with the server already building.
If something goes wrong at that step, nothing is charged and you can come back to this page.
Changing your mind later
The name of the server is a field above and a field in your panel, so nothing depends on what you type today.
You can move up a size when your world outgrows 8 GB, and your world, your plugins and your settings come along, so a world shared by the same friends for years moves up in one piece. Upgrading changes the size and the price: from then on the higher price of that size is what you pay. You can also switch the term you bought at the next renewal, and the sizes we offer are side by side on the plans page.
What you cannot change afterwards is the location, because that is where the machine your world sits on stands, so pick the region your players are in.
Ask us first if you are not sure which one that is, and ask us here about anything that is not on this page.