Move your Minecraft server from Hostinger
Moving is three steps: get the files out of Hostinger, put them here with the importer, point your players at the new address. Your world, plugins or mods and configs come along; nothing is retyped.
1. Get the files out of Hostinger
Hostinger runs Minecraft on a VPS with its Game Panel template, so there are two doors into the files. The panel’s File Manager, in the left side menu of the instance, downloads them directly, and Hostinger’s backup guide has you stop the instance and connect over FTP to pull folders down; the instance’s Backups page makes a named snapshot first. For the importer, SFTP to the VPS works: the host is the VPS IP address, the username is the VPS user such as root, and the port is 22. If the server was built from a modpack there, Hostinger sets the server type to Forge and drops the pack files into the server’s root directory, so the mods and configs sit at the top level rather than inside a pack folder.
2. Bring them here
- Create the server on FadeHost with the same software and Minecraft version as the old one. Do not start it yet.
- More for this server, Import from another host (also under Settings, Import).
- Choose SFTP or FTP and enter the old host’s details, or upload the zip you downloaded. Pick what to pull: the world, plugins or mods, configs.
- Start the server and read the console. A plugin that stored the old address or an absolute path needs a config edit.
3. Switch the address
Players take the new address from the server page, or from the join page you share. A custom domain moves by changing its SRV record, or by connecting the domain in Settings, General, Your own domain. Keep Hostinger for a day while people switch, then cancel it. Hostinger bills by renewal, so the step that stops the money is turning auto-renewal off in your Hostinger account.
What is different here
- There is no VPS to keep patched and no panel template to install: you pick the software and version, and the server installs itself.
- One subscription is a RAM pool: every server takes its share while it runs, a sleeping server takes none. A second server is a click, not a second plan.
- Extra RAM is a dollar a gigabyte a month and can be changed any day.
See also Move from another host for the general steps and databases.