Minecraft server hosting and game server VPS in Europe

Minecraft server hosting on a VPS you control

RS Computers sells Minecraft server hosting as a plain KVM virtual server. You get the whole machine: full root access, NVMe storage, a dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6 and unmetered traffic, in Amsterdam, Prishtina or Dublin. There is no slot limit and no list of approved plugins. You decide between Java and Bedrock, vanilla, Paper, Fabric or Forge, and the same server can run CS2, Rust or Valheim next to Minecraft as long as the memory adds up. The six plans above cost the same in all three cities.

The trade is simple. A panel host does the installing and decides what you may change. A VPS gives you the freedom and the work: no game control panel is included, so you install the server yourself or add a free panel. Our game server hosting guide has every command for Minecraft, CS2, Rust, Valheim and Palworld; this page helps you pick the plan and the city.

How much RAM your server needs, by the games' own numbers

Hosting adverts tend to print a player count next to every gigabyte. The documentation is more modest. The Minecraft Wiki's dedicated server requirements for a Java server on Linux list 512 MB for 1 to 5 players, 1 GB for 5 to 10, 3 GB for 10 to 15, 5 GB for 15 to 20 and 6 GB above 20. Those figures cover the server process alone, assume default settings and a new world, and the operating system needs memory on top. The wiki's general requirements page adds that a big world with redstone machinery and mob grinders can easily more than double them.

Paper, the most widely used plugin server, sets a higher bar. Its guide to the recommended JVM flags suggests at least 6 to 10 GB of heap no matter how few players, and tells you to set the heap 1000 to 1500 MB below the machine's memory so the system keeps some room: on an 8 GB server, about 6500 MB for Java. Paper also warns that above a certain point more memory does not mean better performance.

This is how we would match those figures to our plans. The exact vCPU, memory and disk of every plan are on the cards above.

Memory is only half of it. The Minecraft Wiki asks for a CPU with good single-core performance and notes that the server typically uses three cores at most, with extra work from plugins spread over more cores while the core world ticking stays the same. vCPUs on every RS Computers plan are shared with other servers on the host, so leave yourself headroom instead of buying the bare minimum, and watch the tick time once players arrive.

Pick the city nearest your players

Ping comes from distance far more than from hardware. We measured ours on 6 October 2026 with ping.pe, a public tool that pings an address from probes in many cities. Each figure is the lowest of about ten pings from that city; your players' own internet providers add their share.

Amsterdam is the natural home for a mixed European group. For friends in Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia and the rest of the Balkans, pick Prishtina, about 3 ms from Skopje on our network: Amsterdam measured 36.9 ms from Prishtina, where our own data centre is. A group split between Germany and the Balkans can go either way, as Vienna shows. Dublin suits players in Ireland. More on each city: Amsterdam, Prishtina, Dublin.

No panel included, so you choose the tools

Because every plan is a plain KVM server, the setup is yours. Three routes cover most communities:

• The command line, with our step-by-step setup guide. It uses the least memory. Since version 26.1 the Minecraft server requires Java 25 (Minecraft Wiki), and with root access you install that, or the older Java a modpack asks for.
• Crafty Controller, a free web interface for Minecraft under the GPL v3 that manages both Java and Bedrock servers. A good fit when one or two people look after one community.
• Pterodactyl, a free, MIT-licensed panel that runs every game server in its own Docker container with CPU, memory and disk limits. Its documentation says KVM is guaranteed to work for its Wings daemon, while OpenVZ and LXC usually do not, and every RS Computers plan is KVM. Our Docker guide covers the container side.

Whatever you install, keep copies of the world. Every plan includes free weekly backups of the whole server that you restore from the client area, and a nightly copy of the world folder to another location covers the days in between; our guide to offsite backups with restic shows how. A small Uptime Kuma monitor tells you the server is down before your players do.

CS2, Rust, Valheim and Windows-only game servers

The same plans host Counter-Strike 2, Rust, Valheim and Palworld, which all ship native Linux servers. As the table shows, CS2 needs disk, Rust and Palworld need memory, and Valheim is light. A few dedicated servers exist for Windows only: Keen Software House lists a Windows PC for the Space Engineers server. Windows Server runs on VPS Mini and every VDS plan, and the Windows VPS page explains the versions and Remote Desktop.

What every game VPS includes

• KVM virtualisation with shared vCPUs and NVMe storage
• A dedicated IPv4 address plus IPv6
• Unmetered traffic on a 1 Gb/s port (VPS plans) or a 10 Gb/s port (VDS plans)
• Free weekly backups you restore yourself from the client area
• Full root access, or administrator access on Windows Server
• A self-service panel to reboot, reinstall and open a console
• A 99% monthly uptime SLA: a service credit below 99% and a full refund for the month below 95%
• 24/7 NOC monitoring and automatic deployment after payment

Linux images include Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, among others.

From order to the first player joining

1. Choose the city nearest your players and a plan in the cards above; the block opens on Amsterdam. All plans side by side are on the VPS and VDS plans page.
2. Pick Ubuntu or Debian at the configure step and pay. Deployment is automatic and usually takes minutes.
3. Log in as root, set up the firewall and install the game server or a panel with the setup guide.
4. Give your players the IPv4 address, or point a domain name at it.

Questions about a modpack or the right plan go to Telegram or info@rscomputers-ks.com, answered Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00.