FadeHost compared with other Minecraft hosts
Every host we get asked about sells a plan per server. FadeHost bills one pool of RAM, and a server that sleeps draws nothing from it. The table shows what that means for the things you pay for after the first invoice; each host has its own page below with the figures from its pricing page.
What you pay for, side by side
| FadeHost | Per-server hosts | |
|---|---|---|
| Free server | 2 GB, no card | None |
| A server that sleeps | Lite, $2 a month | None, the plan bills while empty |
| Smallest always-on | $2.50 a month | A full plan |
| Adding RAM | $1 per GB, any day | Change plan |
| A second server | Another $2.50 slot | Another plan |
| Bedrock crossplay | A toggle, included | Set up yourself |
| Trial without a card | 7 days | Rarely, or a refund window |
The right column is what the twelve hosts below have in common. Each host's own figures, September 2026, are on its page.
What the plan price does not show
- Here every server draws from one RAM pool and a sleeping server draws nothing. A second, third or test server is not a second plan.
- RAM changes by the gigabyte on any day, a dollar per gigabyte a month, without a plan change or a migration.
- The crash doctor, the Copilot, the importer, the crossplay toggle, login protection and a first database come with every server, the free one included.
- Promo prices renew at the list price at several of the hosts below. The pages say which.
The comparisons
Per-server plans; the gigabyte is priced close to ours, everything else is a plan
Budget line close to a dollar per gigabyte, but a full plan even for an empty server
A VPS you administer, priced for long prepaid terms, renews higher
$22 to $28 for 8 GB depending on the hardware class
$20.72 for 8 GB, server management sold as an add-on
Promo prices that renew about a third higher
$3 per gigabyte on the budget class, slot caps on small plans
About $3 per gigabyte; two packs means two plans
$27.99 for 8 GB; every extra server is another plan
$27.99 for 8 GB, one game per plan at a time
Listed prices are first-term discounts that roughly double
Counter-Strike specialist; each Minecraft server is a premium subscription
Tunnels and LAN tools
Keeping the server on your own machine for now? FadeHost Bridge gives it a public address, and these are the services people weigh it against.
playit.gg is the best known of these services: a global proxy that puts a public address in front of a game server on your own computer, with a free tier and a cheap premium tier.
e4mc is a neat piece of work: a free, open source client mod that shares a world you opened to LAN, with nothing for your friends to install and no account anywhere.
Hamachi has been the answer to this problem since long before any of us: a hosted VPN that makes a handful of machines behave as if they were on one network, which is enough to play together.
ngrok is an excellent developer tool. It is the fastest way to put a web service on the internet for an afternoon, and it has a documented, well-run network behind it.
Try it before you switch
Seven days free, no card. The importer pulls your world, plugins and mods from any of the hosts above over SFTP or FTP.
Start the trial