PaperMC Server HostingEU & NA from €2.70/mo
Paper is designed to improve on vanilla server performance, and it runs Bukkit and Spigot plugins. In the Netherlands, Germany and Poland, Standard plans run it on the AMD EPYC 7443, in Canada on Ryzen 9 3900X-class CPUs, and Premium plans run on Ryzen 9 9950X nodes.
9 regionsWhy PaperMC
PaperMC Server Hosting: Better TPS, More Plugins, Less Lag
PaperMC is the community standard for Minecraft server performance. By applying hundreds of patches to the vanilla game loop, Paper keeps your server at 20 TPS even under heavy load from players, entities, and plugins.
Combined with our AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Premium hardware, which excels at the single-threaded workloads Minecraft depends on, you get the best possible TPS stability at our price point.
TPS target
20.0 stable
Plugin API
Bukkit / Spigot / Paper
Version support
1.8 to 26.3
Async chunk loading
Yes
Popular plugins, all supported
EssentialsX
The all-in-one server management suite
WorldGuard
Region protection and land claiming
WorldEdit
In-game terrain editing and schematics
LuckPerms
Advanced permission management
Vault
Economy and permission API bridge
Citizens
Custom NPCs for shops and quests
GriefPrevention
Land claiming for survival servers
DiscordSRV
Two-way Discord integration
HolographicDisplays
Floating text and leaderboards
PlaceholderAPI
Dynamic text placeholders across plugins
Dynmap
Live web map of your world
CoreProtect
Block logging and rollback
1000+ plugins available from SpigotMC, Hangar, and Modrinth
Pick the plan you actually need
Choose a region, choose Standard or Premium, then pick RAM. The summary stays visible so price, players, storage, and hardware are easy to compare.
Choose the region
Pick the region closest to most of your players.
Choose the hardware line
Select RAM memory
Order summary
Netherlands
Selected plan
MC Diamond
Modpacks start here
- Ryzen 9 9950XShared CPU, 600 to 800% (fair use)
- 20-30 Players (no hard cap)
- 8GB DDR5 RAM
- 80GB NVMe
- Pterodactyl panel included
- DDoS Protection Included, Cloudflare Magic Transit
Player counts are a recommendation based on RAM, not a hard limit. You can connect more players than listed.
3 server port allocations included. Up to 5 available on request.
Join without typing a port
Add a dedicated port at checkout: your server gets the default port (25565 for Java, 19132 for Bedrock), so players only type your address.
€2.50 a month on Premium, €5.00 on Standard
Instant setup in your selected region.
CPU matters
Minecraft cares about single-thread speed. In the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Canada, Premium runs Ryzen 9 9950X. Standard runs the AMD EPYC 7443 in the Netherlands, Germany and Poland and Ryzen 9 3900X-class in Canada. California and Virginia run the 7950X3D on Standard and the 9950X on Premium, Singapore and Australia the 5950X, and India the 3900X-class. The CPU is shared on every plan.
Protection choices
DDoS protection is included on every plan in every region. Premium in Europe and Canada and every USA plan run behind Cloudflare Magic Transit; Standard, Singapore, Australia and India use standard protection. There is no paid add-on.
Panel included
Console, files, backups, schedules, startup flags, and sub-users are ready.
9 regions
Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Canada, USA (California), USA (Virginia), Singapore, India (Mumbai), and Australia. EU, NA, Asia, South Asia, and Oceania covered.
Need something bigger?
Running Velocity, a big modpack, or a server network? Tell us what you are building and we will size it properly.
In the panel
Plugins and Paper builds from the panel
Search and install plugins, switch to another Paper build or server fork, and change server.properties without a text editor. These screenshots come from a demo server.
Plugins. Search plugins from SpigotMC and install them from the panel: LuckPerms, EssentialsX, Vault and more.
PaperMC Hosting FAQ
- PaperMC is a Minecraft server built for plugins. It started as a fork of Spigot and has been a hard fork since Minecraft 1.21.4, with its own changes to chunk loading, entity handling and the game loop, so it holds TPS (ticks per second) better than vanilla under the same load. If you run plugins or have more than 5 players, Paper is almost always the right choice over vanilla.
- Space-Node supports all Bukkit, Spigot, and Paper plugins. The number you can run depends on RAM. A 3GB server handles 10-20 lightweight plugins. A 6-8GB server runs 50-100 plugins including heavy ones like EssentialsX, WorldGuard, WorldEdit, and economy plugins. There is no hard limit: it depends on what the plugins demand.
- Almost always. Paper still implements the Bukkit and Spigot API, so plugins on SpigotMC, Hangar or Modrinth that target Bukkit or Spigot generally run unchanged. Plugins that reach into Spigot internals (CraftBukkit or NMS code) can break since the hard fork and may need a Paper build from their author. Paper also has its own API on top for plugins that want it.
- Vanilla is the unmodified Mojang server: no plugins, limited performance. Spigot is the original plugin-enabled fork, now largely superseded. Paper started on Spigot, is now its own hard fork with major performance changes, and is the community standard for plugin servers. Purpur builds on Paper and adds even more gameplay configuration options. All of these are available with one click in our control panel.
- Yes. On 2 November 2026 Paper had stable builds for Minecraft 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3, and 26.3 needs Java 25. New Minecraft versions get experimental Paper builds first and stable ones once the Paper team trusts them. You pick the Paper version in the panel; size the plan by players and plugins rather than by version.
- From vanilla, yes: Paper converts the world folders on its first start. From Spigot or CraftBukkit, not directly since Minecraft 26.1, because Spigot changes the world folder layout. Paper's migration guide says to move the world from Spigot back to vanilla first and then from vanilla to Paper. Take a backup in the panel before you switch.
- For a small survival server with friends and light plugins: 3-4GB (MC Coal or Iron). For a public server with 20+ players and 50+ plugins: 6-8GB (MC Lapis or Diamond). For large networks running multiple worlds, 10-16GB is recommended. Paper is more RAM-efficient than most alternatives, so you can do more with less.
Minecraft servers from €2.70 a month
NVMe storage and DDoS protection on every plan. Install a CurseForge or Modrinth pack from the panel, or upload your own server files over SFTP.
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