Hosting and uptime across the servers we track
We ping every server on this list around the clock, resolve each one to the company actually running it, and compare them on the thing that matters to players: whether the server answers when they try to join. This is a report on our own sample — read the note below before treating any figure as a statement about Minecraft servers generally.
These figures describe the 2,358 servers we track, not Minecraft servers as a whole. We find servers by crawling public listings and platform APIs, so the sample reflects that method rather than the game's true population.
1,291 of them (55%) run on free hosting platforms such as Minehut and Aternos, because those platforms publish machine-readable server lists we can import in bulk. Those servers are typically small, short-lived, and all sit behind the same shared infrastructure — so mixing them with the 1,067 servers on their own domains would distort every figure below.
Everything on this page is therefore reported separately for the two groups. Where a single number is shown, it refers to self-hosted servers.
Uptime by hosting provider
Every listed server is checked continuously. This is the share of those checks where the server answered, averaged across all servers on each provider over the last 30 days. Servers that never answered once, or that went dark and never came back, are excluded — an owner who stops paying is not an outage, and counting it as one penalises whichever provider hosts the most servers. Providers need at least 3 measured servers to appear.
| Provider | Servers | Average uptime | Uptime | Above 95% uptime | Set aside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS datacenter | 3 | 100.0% | 3 of 3 | 1 | |
| netcup datacenter | 3 | 100.0% | 3 of 3 | 2 | |
| InterServer datacenter | 7 | 99.9% | 7 of 7 | 5 | |
| IPXO datacenter | 3 | 99.9% | 3 of 3 | 2 | |
| GameServerKings MC host | 3 | 99.9% | 3 of 3 | 1 | |
| Apex Hosting MC host | 5 | 99.8% | 5 of 5 | 3 | |
| DigitalOcean datacenter | 3 | 99.7% | 3 of 3 | 1 | |
| FY Technology datacenter | 3 | 99.7% | 3 of 3 | 2 | |
| Pufferfish Host MC host | 14 | 99.6% | 14 of 14 | 7 | |
| Contabo datacenter | 4 | 99.5% | 4 of 4 | 2 | |
| Bloom.host MC host | 39 | 99.4% | 37 of 39 | 13 | |
| Sparked Host MC host | 8 | 99.4% | 8 of 8 | 5 | |
| BisectHosting MC host | 9 | 99.3% | 8 of 9 | 8 | |
| ReliableSite datacenter | 7 | 99.1% | 6 of 7 | — | |
| HyperPacket datacenter | 3 | 99.0% | 3 of 3 | — | |
| Oracle Cloud datacenter | 11 | 98.7% | 10 of 11 | 6 | |
| CloudExa Hosting MC host | 3 | 98.5% | 3 of 3 | 2 | |
| OVH datacenter | 153 | 98.3% | 148 of 153 | 73 | |
| WebNX datacenter | 3 | 97.7% | 2 of 3 | 1 | |
| BB Host MC host | 3 | 97.5% | 2 of 3 | 3 | |
| Servers.com datacenter | 10 | 96.4% | 9 of 10 | 6 | |
| SlashN Services datacenter | 7 | 96.3% | 5 of 7 | 2 | |
| Hostinger datacenter | 8 | 96.2% | 7 of 8 | 7 | |
| PebbleHost MC host | 18 | 94.8% | 15 of 18 | 14 | |
| Azure datacenter | 3 | 93.6% | 2 of 3 | 2 | |
| AME Hosting datacenter | 13 | 92.8% | 12 of 13 | 9 | |
| Hetzner datacenter | 43 | 92.6% | 37 of 43 | 29 |
What this table leaves out. Of the 1,067 self-hosted servers we have checked, 243 (23%) could not be attributed to any identifiable operator, and a further 89 sit behind a protection layer that hides their origin. Those servers are absent from every row above rather than counted against anyone. We identify a host from the address players connect to, from reverse DNS, and from the organisation registered to the network block, in that order — so a host that brands none of those is invisible to us, and its absence here says nothing about its size or quality.
Not every address belongs to a hosting company
This is worth understanding before reading any ranking. A Minecraft server's address can resolve to a specialist host, to the raw datacenter that host rents from, to a protection layer, or to address space the network owns outright. They are not comparable, so they are never mixed below.
| What the address belongs to | Servers | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A datacenter / VPS provider | 479 | 45% | |
| The network's own address space | 213 | 20% | |
| A Minecraft hosting company | 191 | 18% | |
| A DDoS protection layer | 89 | 8% | |
| A home internet connection | 65 | 6% | |
| Not identifiable | 30 | 3% |
Minecraft hosting companies
Companies that sell Minecraft server hosting specifically. Most rent their hardware from the datacenters in the next table, so they are identified by how their servers identify themselves in reverse DNS rather than by who owns the address.
| Host | Servers | Servers | Online | Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloom.host | 51 | 46 | 1,108 | |
| PebbleHost | 27 | 18 | 278 | |
| Pufferfish Host | 19 | 18 | 3,465 | |
| Sparked Host | 12 | 11 | 203 | |
| BisectHosting | 12 | 11 | 28 | |
| Apex Hosting | 11 | 7 | 1 | |
| BB Host | 5 | 2 | 22 | |
| CloudExa Hosting | 4 | 4 | 1,023 | |
| Meteor Cloud | 4 | 4 | 165 | |
| DatHost | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| GameServerKings | 3 | 2 | 150 | |
| Freakhosting | 3 | 2 | 103 | |
| Folium | 3 | 2 | 25 | |
| MCProHosting | 3 | 1 | 11 |
Datacenters and VPS providers
Raw infrastructure. Servers here are either self-managed by their owner, or run by a Minecraft host whose reverse DNS does not identify it — so treat this as "where the metal is", not "who the customer bought from".
| Provider | Servers | Servers | Online | Players |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVH | 217 | 204 | 16,282 | |
| Hetzner | 65 | 56 | 559 | |
| AME Hosting | 25 | 19 | 399 | |
| Oracle Cloud | 21 | 18 | 24 | |
| Servers.com | 15 | 11 | 41 | |
| Hostinger | 12 | 7 | 21 | |
| ReliableSite | 12 | 12 | 1 | |
| InterServer | 11 | 10 | 165 | |
| SlashN Services | 11 | 9 | 23 | |
| Contabo | 7 | 6 | 5 | |
| netcup | 6 | 6 | 138 | |
| HyperPacket | 6 | 6 | 69 |
DDoS protection: 8% of self-hosted servers, 68% of platform-hosted
An earlier version of this page reported a single blended figure of 41%. That number was an artefact of how we collect data, not a fact about Minecraft: free hosting platforms route every customer through the same protection layer, and we import those servers in bulk from platform APIs. Separated, the two groups behave completely differently — and only the self-hosted figure reflects a decision an operator actually made.
| Protection layer | Servers | |
|---|---|---|
| Minehut | 872 | |
| TCPShield | 74 | |
| Cloudflare | 17 | |
| Rabisu Anti-DDoS | 1 | |
| MineGuard | 1 | |
| PebbleHost | 1 |
Where the machines are
Physical location of directly-hosted servers. Worth knowing if latency matters to you — a server three continents away feels slow no matter how good its uptime is.
| Country | Servers | Players | |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 299 | 12,702 | |
| Canada | 101 | 11,212 | |
| Germany | 87 | 1,641 | |
| France | 45 | 2,061 | |
| United Kingdom | 36 | 1,320 | |
| The Netherlands | 18 | 24 | |
| Brazil | 16 | 2,271 | |
| Singapore | 15 | 151 | |
| Finland | 15 | 46 | |
| India | 11 | 3 |
List it free and we'll track its uptime the same way — you'll get the numbers for your own server, not just the averages.
How this was measured
Every server on this list is pinged continuously using Minecraft's own server-list protocol — the same request your game client makes. Each check records whether the server answered. Uptime is the share of checks answered over the stated window; a server needs at least 200 checks before it counts towards any average.
Identifying the host takes two steps, because address-ownership records alone give the wrong answer.
Minecraft hosts are usually resellers: Bloom.host rents from AME Hosting, PebbleHost from ColoCrossing,
so ownership records name the upstream and the actual host disappears. We therefore resolve each
server's advertised address — following its _minecraft._tcp SRV record where one exists —
and read the reverse DNS of the result, which is where hosts brand themselves
(bloom.host, hosted-by.sparkedhost.com, *.your-server.de).
Ownership records are used only as a fallback, and only for names we recognise as companies.
Each server is then assigned a category — Minecraft host, datacenter, protection layer, own address space, or home connection — and the tables never mix them. Brand names are normalised because providers operate under many legal entities: OVH alone appears under five in raw ownership records.
Servers behind Cloudflare, TCPShield and similar protection layers are excluded from provider and country figures, since the observable address belongs to the protection network rather than the host. So are servers on address space the network owns itself, and the small number whose ownership record names an individual rather than a company. All are counted in the breakdown above.
Figures refresh every six hours. This page reports what we can observe from outside; it is not based on any information supplied by hosting companies, and no provider pays to appear or rank here.