Minecraft is a household name at this point. Almost everyone has at least heard of it. You may be tired of the solo gameplay and want to enjoy some sweet mods with your friends on a server. So, today we’ll be going over the best 3 free Minecraft server hosting.
We’ll be covering the best options for free server hosting and what each service provides for free. Just in case you’re interested in potentially upgrading to a paid server, we will also go through some of the upgrade options and the perks you get with those.
FreeMcServer
FreeMcServer allows two free options to select from. It does also offer a pay-as-needed option. However, if you aren’t trying to host a ton of people, the free options should work well enough. The website to sign up does require you to turn off any ad blocker so keep that in mind, because it can be a pain to navigate. But you can’t beat a free option!
High Memory
This option is what you need if you plan to need a quick renewal. The quickness is the exchange for a lower amount of RAM used. Also, it’s free so there may be queue times under high load. Some of the features for this plan are:
- 4-hour renewal
- 1.5GB of ram
- 10GB of disk
- Queue under high load
- DDoS protection
- Unlimited player slots
- Mod support
- Server backups
- All versions are supported
Always Online
This option is for those of you that need the server up 24/7. There are some trade-offs when it comes to this one compared to the other one, such as the renewal rate. The features included are:
- 2-day renewal
- 384MB ram but up to 4GB free
- 10GB disk
- No queue
- DDoS protection
- Unlimited slots
- Mods are not supported
- Server backups
- Versions supported up to 1.12.2
Paid Option
There is a cheap paid option and you only pay when you need to play. It comes out to $0.79/day. Some of the perks for the paid option are:
- Renewal not needed
- 8GB ram
- Unlimited disk
- Mods Supported
- All versions supported
- No queue
ScalaCube
ScalaCube is pretty decent when it comes to free servers. The paid options do offer more, but they quickly get up there in cost. However, the free-to-use servers are a good idea to get your footing to see if you would want to potentially pay in the future. The basic things you get from this one are:
- DDoS protection
- 24/7 uptime
- Server monitoring
- SSD storage 30GB
- 2×3.4 GHz CPU
- Instant setup
- All Versions Supported
- Snapshot support
- Modpacks supported
- Plugin/mod support
- Full file access
- Custom JAR
- Custom Launcher
- Server backup
- 3GB ram 24/7
As you can see, there are a lot of perks to the free version. However, we’ll go over their paid options, just to show you what is available if you decide you want more people or more RAM.
Paid Options
There is the cheapest option at $5.00 per month ($2.50 for the first month). It’s less desirable compared to the paid option because it does restrict the player count to 10 and the RAM to 768MB, which if you plan on using lots of Mods or hosting lots of people, it doesn’t exactly hit the mark.
The most expensive option is $192.00 per month ($96.00 for the first month). Has a ton of perks. You obviously won’t need this version unless you plan to have a lot of people on a server. Some of the added bonuses included are:
- 600 players
- 32GB RAM
- 8×3.4 GHz CPU
- 320 GB SSD Storage
- Unlimted game servers installed on one VPS server
They do also offer several other plans in various price ranges from $10 to $96. So, there is literally something for everyone.
Aternos
If you want a 100% free server this is the best option. They are completely free, with no paid options. They created it for the community and it’s a massive hit with over 56 million users. It offers plenty of good features:
- Fully customizable
- Backups
- Custom worlds
- DDoS protection
- Mods and plugins
- Free forever
- 8-20 people
It doesn’t have the capacity some paid alternatives offer. However, to play with your friends, it’s absolutely enough. The fact it offers Mod and Plugin support is fantastic because not all free servers offer it as an option.
Final Thoughts
These three are definitely some of the top free Minecraft server options. Now, you’ll be able to go through each one and what they offer in order to decide what the best choice for you and your friends is!