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Apolo 2 GB Minecraft server hosting
Vanilla, without watching the memory bar.
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.
The specs
What you get with Apolo
- DDR5 memory
- 2 GBWhere the world, plugins and loaded chunks live.
- NVMe storage
- 25 GBGen4 NVMe for worlds, jars, plugins and backups.
- CPU
- 1.5 vCoresShared Ryzen 9700X threads. What keeps the tick at 20.
- Databases
- 2For the plugins that keep their own data.
- Backups
- 1Snapshots you take and roll back yourself.
- Server splitter
- Not includedAvailable from Atenea (6 GB) upward.
- DDoS protection
- Plugin installer
- Aikar flags preset
- 24/7 support
- 99% uptime SLA
Is it the right size?
What Apolo can run
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.
See AresIn detail
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.
Still unsure? The plan calculator sizes a server from your modpack, players and render distance.
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