By Crazher
I am currently looking to run a Minecraft server, and I am sure many people have asked about this before, but I will be very specific as to what I need:
I want a server that can hold ~15 (10-20, not sure) mods, with a peak of 10-20 (average 5-10) players at a time. I am curious which droplet would best suit my needs? I do know how to setup the server and run it through here, but my main concern is getting the right plan from the get-go.
Off the top of my head I would assume the $10 plan would be sufficient, but I want to make sure that I wouldn’t need the $20 one.
Additionally, I would want to host a TS server (again just for 5-10 people) + possibly a small website in the future.
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For this size server I would recommend the 2GB droplet. While it may be possible to run this on a 1GB droplet you would see the best performance on the larger size and doing some searching online shows that many places recommend 2GB of RAM for 20-40 players.
Whichever you select I would also recommend enabling swap on your droplet to prevent the server from crashing should your available memory be used up.
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It’s hard to say precisely, having said that looking at the following page in the Minecraft fandom wiki - https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Server/Requirements/Dedicated
It suggests 4GB of RAM for about 15 people on the server. This does seem a little bit extreme. With that said, I’ll recommend getting a droplet with about 2 to 3 GB of RAM and upgrading it afterward if needed.
Additionally, don’t forget to add SWAP to your Droplet as well.
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