Beginner tierPlan 3 of 12
Ares 4 GB Minecraft server hosting
The smallest plan we would put a modpack on.
Four gigabytes is the line where modded Minecraft becomes possible instead of theoretical. It is also the plan most people end up on, which is why it carries the popular badge.
The specs
What you get with Ares
- DDR5 memory
- 4 GBWhere the world, plugins and loaded chunks live.
- NVMe storage
- 40 GBGen4 NVMe for worlds, jars, plugins and backups.
- CPU
- 2 vCoresShared Ryzen 9700X threads. What keeps the tick at 20.
- Databases
- 4For the plugins that keep their own data.
- Backups
- 2Snapshots 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 Ares can run
What actually runs on it
- Paper with 20–30 plugins and around 20 players
- A curated Fabric pack of 40–60 mods for a small group
- Lighter Forge packs — think tech-only or magic-only
- A busy public SMP with claims, economy and minigames
What it will not run
- Kitchen-sink packs like All The Mods or ATM-scale Forge builds
- Modded worlds with more than about eight players at once
- A multi-server network — that starts at Atenea
Running a big pack, or planning a lobby plus a survival server? Atenea adds 2 GB and the first two splitter slots.
See AteneaIn detail
On the plugin side this is comfortable territory: a Paper server with twenty or thirty plugins and twenty-odd players online, without the memory graph ever getting interesting.
On the modded side it is the honest starting line. A Fabric base takes 1.5 GB before your first mod, so you are left with roughly 1.8 GB of working room — enough for a curated pack of forty to sixty mods with a small group, or a lighter Forge pack. It is not enough for All The Mods or Create: Above and Beyond, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a stutter.
Ares is also the last plan without splitter slots. If you are heading toward a network rather than a single world, the jump to Atenea is the one that matters.
Still unsure? The plan calculator sizes a server from your modpack, players and render distance.
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