How To Choose Your Minecraft Server Hosting Plan

Choosing a plan for your Minecraft server can be an overwhelming task, especially when PingRite gives you this many dedicated Minecraft server options. Fortunately, we give all these options to provide you all the power and customization of your very own Minecraft server. Whether you're a family playing Minecraft at home, or a streamer building their long-term community, PingRite is here to support your every step.

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Building a Minecraft Community

There are a lot of options when choosing to build your Minecraft community, when it comes to plugins for your Minecraft server, monetization options for your server, setting up admins, donations...the list goes on and on. Knowing which plan is the best for your community is the most important place to start, and judging your active player count from viewers on your videos can be difficult.

The Redstone plan is a good medium for many content creators, splitting cost and strength directly down the middle. Getting interaction online can be difficult for many creators, and only a small percentage of that interaction further become viewers of content. Beyond that, an even smaller percentage of that viewer base trickles down into players on community servers, so while it pays to invest in strength; be sure not to overcompensate for slots.

Minecraft Modded Servers

We've mentioned plugins a little already, but modded servers and servers with a TON of plugins are a beast of their own that deserve special consideration. Just as shown by the graphic above, adding a lot of mods and plugins can be sort of equivalent to adding a lot of players to a server, requiring a lot more RAM for the server to function. Depending on the mod, this can be more or less true, as some mods are significantly more RAM intensive than others. As a general rule though, the larger the mod, the more RAM it will require.

Speaking of larger mods, most players play modpacks on their servers anyway. Considering this is a larger collection of mods that generally includes several medium-to-large mods, depending on your player count you should probably consider only plans above 6GB RAM due to the requirements the modpack will put on the server. If you are playing with a medium-sized friend group, you'll want to consider a middle-ranged plan such as the 8GB RAM for the best gameplay experience.

Minecraft Server Hosting Takeaways

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