FREE & PAID MINECRAFT SERVERS
I used to run a Minecraft server on my Ryzen 5 3600 PC. DDoS attacks and hosting costs eventually made me stop. A few years later, Qking and I started FreeMcHosting using our own hardware, so more people could try hosting without spending loads of money.
You don't need to pay for the free plan. You earn credits to keep your servers running. How that works ↗
Build one server.
Or split the pool
across several.
You can see what you get on both plans before signing up. Free hosting uses credits. Paid hosting gives you a bigger pool for a monthly price.
Good for playing survival with friends, testing plugins, or making your first server.
Make as many servers as your free resource pool allows. Earn credits by doing reward tasks. If you have enough credits, your servers renew automatically unless you turn that off.
Create free serverPaid hosting runs on separate servers from the free plan. Pick a monthly tier in the dashboard and split its resource pool between your Minecraft servers.
400% CPU · 30 GB storage
600% CPU · 50 GB storage
You get one free pool with up to 4 GB RAM, 200% CPU and 25 GB storage. You can make more than one server, but they all share those limits. For example, you could give 2 GB RAM to one server and 1 GB each to two others.
Free servers use credits. You get credits by completing tasks in the rewards programme. Auto-renewal is on by default, so if you have enough credits your server renews without you having to do it manually.
Read about credits and renewal ↗This is just an example of how you could split RAM. The dashboard shows what you can actually set up and how many credits it uses.
I wanted to run Minecraft servers without paying a hosting company every month. After years of building computers, I had enough spare hardware to try something different.
I started by running a Minecraft server on a normal desktop PC, and we ended up with a pretty good community. But we kept getting DDoS attacks and bots. Another server owner suggested a hosting company, which made things much easier, but the monthly cost was too much. In the end I stopped running it.
A few years later, I'd been building and selling computers and had quite a lot of hardware left over. I wanted to make a private Minecraft server for my friends, but 32 GB of RAM was more than we needed. This time I used a cheap VPS to help protect the network, while the actual Minecraft server ran on our own machine.
That is how FreeMcHosting started. Qking is a friend I met back when I ran my first Minecraft server, and we started this project together. We now have servers in the UK and Netherlands. A few volunteers also help us with support tickets.
Create an account, then choose free hosting or a paid plan in the dashboard.
Choose your Minecraft software, give the server its resources and set it up with the console or file manager.
Copy the server address from the dashboard and give it to your friends. Remember that free servers need credits to renew.
Me and Qking mainly run the project, with some volunteers helping on support tickets. We have nodes in the UK and Netherlands. We also monitor abuse, such as people running mining scripts or trying to misuse our network.
Because we self-host, we can't guarantee 100% uptime. Power problems and maintenance can still happen. If there is a serious attack, we may need to stop the free node temporarily. Please keep backups of your important worlds.
We're a small project running our own servers. Here are some things you should know before using them.
Browse every guide ↗You get up to 4 GB RAM, 200% CPU and 25 GB storage across your free servers. You decide how to split it. Earn credits from rewards to keep those servers renewed.
Auto-renewal is on by default. If you have enough credits, your server renews on its own. You can turn it off in the dashboard.
Tier 1 is £4.99/month for a 6 GB RAM, 400% CPU and 30 GB disk pool. Tier 2 is £8.99/month for 8 GB, 600% CPU and 50 GB storage. Each tier has separate per-server allocation, database and backup allowances. Compare them here.
Yes, but you need to move the files yourself for now. Download them from your free server and upload them to your paid server. If something goes wrong, contact us and we can help. We hope to add automatic transfers later.
No. We run the servers ourselves, so maintenance and power issues can happen. We may also stop the free node for a while during a serious attack. Check the status page and keep backups.
No. It's an independent Minecraft community project and is not affiliated with either company.
Start free with credits, or choose one of our monthly paid plans. Both are run by the same small team.
