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Minecraft · 2GB dedicated RAM · Mumbai, Noida, Singapore, Dhaka

A 2GB Minecraft server — the smallest tier that’s actually enough.

For a private vanilla or lightly-modded world with a handful of friends, 2GB is the honest minimum — not a "trial size".

$1.97/mo · unlimited slots · Pterodactyl panel · 7-day refund

Who actually needs 2GB.

2GB is where a private Minecraft world stops being a demo and starts being a server. Vanilla 1.20+ with 3–5 players, or Paper with a handful of quality-of-life plugins — DiscordSRV, a land-claim plugin, a sleep-vote — runs comfortably inside 2GB of dedicated RAM.

The caveat is in the word "dedicated". Budget hosts sell "2GB" that swaps to disk under pressure, which is how a $1.50 server lags with three players online. Ours is allocated to your JVM and stays there.

Buy this tier if you’re a friend group, a small family world, or testing a modpack before committing. The moment you pass ~8 concurrent players or load a real modpack, jump to 4GB — it’s a restart, not a rebuild.

✓ 2GB handles

  • ✓ Vanilla 1.20+, 3–5 players, spawn + a few builds
  • ✓ Paper with 5–15 light plugins (DiscordSRV, GriefPrevention, CoreProtect)
  • ✓ Fabric with performance mods only (Lithium, FerriteCore)
  • ✓ A dev/test world before buying the real size
  • ✓ Geyser cross-play for a couple of Bedrock friends

✗ Go bigger when…

  • • 8+ players online at once — go 4GB
  • • Any real modpack (ATM, RLCraft, Pixelmon) — go 8GB
  • • Big farms, chunk loaders, heavy redstone — go 4–6GB
  • • A public server — 2GB is a friends world, not a community
Where 2GB sits

Every tier — pick wrong and upgrade in place.

RAMGood forPrice/mo
2 GB ← this page 3–5 friends, vanilla ₹187 Deploy →
4 GB 10–15 players, SMP + plugins ₹287 Pick →
6 GB 15–25 players, heavier plugins ₹476 Pick →
8 GB modpacks / 20–40 players ₹565 Pick →
10 GB 40–60 players, big modpacks ₹764 Pick →
12 GB large community SMP ₹852 Pick →
14 GB network hub + plugins ₹1,042 Pick →
16 GB public network ₹1,140 Pick →

Upgrades apply in place — same server, same IP, same world. Just a restart.

Live in ~60 seconds

  • ✓ Pick this tier → pay → panel credentials by email
  • ✓ Paper / Vanilla / Forge / Fabric / Spigot / Velocity — pick at setup
  • ✓ SFTP included — upload your existing world
  • ✓ Geyser for Bedrock/mobile cross-play

From our knowledge base

Real questions

2GB Minecraft FAQ

What people ask before buying the 2GB tier.

Ask on Discord ↗
3–5 on vanilla, similar on Paper with light plugins. Past ~8 concurrent, step up to 4GB.
Not for modpacks — ATM/RLCraft/Pixelmon want 8GB. Light client-side or QoL mods are fine.
Paper — it uses RAM more efficiently, which matters most at the small end. Vanilla works too.
Yes — install Geyser and Bedrock players join the same world.
Yes — in place: same server, same IP, same world. Just a restart.
No sleep, no join queue, dedicated (not swapped) RAM, and it stays up at 8 PM. The 7-day refund is your trial.
Deploy 2GB Minecraft → $1.97/mo

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