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Looking for a VPS to host Minecraft mod packs.
Heya,
I've recently started hosting Minecraft mod packs, and the VPS I currently rent seems to missing a bit of power. I was hoping to find a server in Europe with a bit more powerful CPU, in the 20-25 euro/month price range. If possible also able to run Windows server without extra costs.
Specs of the server I'm currently renting:
AMD Ryzen 3970X
20GB DDR4
100GB NVME SSD
10 Gbit/s shared
Thanks!
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What are you hosting? Downloads?
HostBrr has a VPS with 6 Epyc vCores and 12 GB memory in Germany for ~$10/m, or at the same price HostHatch has 6 Epyc vCores and 24 GB memory in Sweden, see my affiliated LET aggregator.
Also, 10 Ryzen vCores, 50 GB memory from Layer7: https://login.layer7.net/cart.php?pid=74
@layer7 has a server with 5 AMD Ryzen 7950X3D cores, 20 GB DDR5 ECC memory, 600 GB NVMe SSD with 5 Gbit/s in France for around 19 EUR/month (incl. 19% VAT) when paid yearly. (Aff) (No aff).
That are really fast servers!
If you just need to host downloads, you can use something like CloudFlare R2 and throw their CDN in front of it.
No, the game itself. Modpacks are just a collection of mods to run on the game, they often require a much beefier CPU then just normal Minecraft.
To add on to this; the game doesn't support multithreading so I'd prefer a fast base clock speed
Dataforest is indeed really good (I'm currently renting from them), but I need a bit more CPU power. Layer7 does look very promising however and I'm contacting them right now to see if we can work out a deal. Thank you
You will want a dedicated cpu. I'm running atm9 on one from solidseo in the Netherlands. It's got hybrid dedicated and fair share. Use docker to limit the game to the dedicated cores and you are good.
Also you would be surprised how much multi threading forge will do during startup / shutdown, I usually give 2-4 cores to the server.
Atm9eu.kullgames.com if you wana see how it runs.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/192644/64-95-m-ryzen-dedicated-server-8gb-epyc-deals-starting-60-year/p1
I see. Not exactly obvious from the description but yeah i guess you'll want as much single core performance as you can get. It's kinda crazy that even after all these years Minecraft is still not much into multi threading. You'll also want as much RAM as possible (Java just eats all of it for breakfast and then some...).
Edit: https://www.netcup.de/vserver/ would be a slight upgrade to your current CPU i think but it's only about 300 passmark points more and the 32GB package is outside your budget.
I've gone with the top 2 recommendations and am going to host a server with Layer7. They we're kind enough to offer me a quick test run on their servers where I could do a benchmark with my server files and it ran like a charm. Thanks everyone for helping me find a suitable server.
Probably a good choice. Just checked it out of curiosity and it's about 1500 passmark above your current setup or ~1200 above the netcup one i had posted.
The server I currently have barely kept up with loading the map when traveling fast, I pushed this one to it's limits and it could keep up great so they convinced me
You need dedicated resources
Yeah, a couple dedicated cores would obviously be even better but lets face it, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is a beast and will likely outperform about 90% of the competition even while shared. 4100+ single core passmark!! I don't think this needs much more words. It's the wet dream of every single threader
Haha yeah ideally I want dedicated resources indeed, but my wallet is simply not allowing that.. I'm surprised I managed to find such a great deal for this price, and I'm pretty confident it will hold up for what I'm about to throw at it.
Spartanhost
https://lowend-deals.xbit.win/#vps-high-spec (some links are aff)
I would suggest the 9 EUR HostBrr plan. There are few other options too, you can check if that fits your needs.
You can use layer7 vps ,Hostbrr vps which I'm using for game hosting they are good choice
what antiddos layer7 uses?