Most hosts will not tell you what silicon you are renting. Here is ours, in full.
That is the whole machine. When it is full we stop selling until there is another one — which is the part most hosts leave out.
Minecraft does most of its thinking in one place rather than spreading it out, so it likes a processor that is quick per core more than one with a huge core count. This is a modern desktop part rather than an ancient server chip with sixty slow threads, which is what the game actually wants.
Every plan runs the same processor at the same speed. Going up the range buys you room to run more world at once, and on Blizzard it also buys cores that are only ever yours — two whole ones, pinned, with no other customer scheduled on top. That removes the small stutters that come from sharing, but it does not make the chip faster. Nobody can sell you that.
NVMe throughout, including the free plan. Loading a new area of the world is mostly a disk job, so slow storage shows up as a stutter every time somebody explores somewhere new. We would rather not have that on any plan. There are two drives and each is a copy of the other, so your world is written to both at once.
Knowing the machine is the point. Here is what follows from it.
Small on purpose. There is no ticket queue and no first-line script — you message us and you reach somebody who can open a console and look. Most things get sorted in one reply, the same evening.
Virginia, on the US east coast, which is about as central as one location gets for North America and still comfortable from western Europe. Your players connect to a machine sitting on a fast network, not to whichever box a reseller had spare.
We sell the memory and the storage the machine actually has, and not a megabyte more. Nobody is squeezed in on top of you at the end of the month to hit a number. If a plan is sold out we will tell you it is sold out.
The free plan uses exactly the same processor. Make one and see for yourself.