Apolo
Vanilla, without watching the memory bar.
What you get
- DDR5 RAMWhere the world, plugins and loaded chunks live.2 GB
- NVMe SSDGen4 NVMe for worlds, jars, plugins and backups.25 GB
- Shared vCoresRyzen 9700X threads. What keeps the tick at 20.1.5
- DatabasesFor the plugins that keep their own data.2
- BackupsSnapshots you take and roll back yourself.1
- Splitter slotsExtra server instances under this same plan.None
- AMD Ryzen 7 9700XThe same 9700X on every plan. No slower tier.
- 24/7 DDoS ProtectionFiltered upstream, always on, never an add-on.
- Instant SetupLive about sixty seconds after payment clears.
- Premium SupportHumans on tickets and Discord. Not a reply bot.
- Plugin InstallerOne-click installs and updates from the panel.
- Custom Aikar FlagsGarbage collection tuned. Nothing to configure.
- 99% UptimeProven on a public status page, not just claimed.
Two gigabytes is where a vanilla server stops being a compromise. Same Ryzen 7 9700X, twice the memory of Hermes, and enough room left after the JVM to stop thinking about it.
Hermes runs a small world. Apolo runs a real one. After the JVM takes its cut you have roughly 700 MB of working headroom above a vanilla or Paper base — room for a dozen players at normal render distance, or eight players and a proper plugin set.
This is the plan most small SMPs should start on. Permissions, land claims, a chat manager, a map renderer: that whole stack fits here without you rationing it plugin by plugin.
What it still is not is a modded server. Fabric and Forge start at 1.5–2 GB before you add a single mod, which would leave you back where Hermes was. For mods, start at Ares.
What actually runs on it
- Vanilla or Paper survival for 10–14 players
- A full plugin stack: permissions, claims, chat, maps
- A community SMP that stays busy most evenings
- A small Bedrock-crossplay server via Geyser
What it will not run
- Forge or Fabric modpacks of any real size
- Servers past roughly fifteen concurrent players
- Pregenerating huge worlds while players are online
If mods are the plan, skip ahead — Ares doubles this again and is the first plan we would actually put a modpack on.