Your first server

Signing up takes a minute and the first server is created in the same flow. This is the whole path, so you know what to expect.

Create the server

1. Start the free trial. No card; the trial comes with enough RAM to run a modpack.
2. Verify your email. The panel opens on your servers.
3. Create server: pick the game, then the software and version (Paper for a plugin server, Fabric, Forge or NeoForge for mods, or a modpack from the catalogue), then a preset such as Friends survival or Public community. Presets set slots, difficulty, sleep-when-empty and spawn protection in one click; every value can be changed later.
4. Pick the region closest to your players and the RAM. The server installs itself.

Start it and join

1. Press Start. The console shows the boot; the first start of a modded server takes a few minutes while the mods register.
2. The address is at the top of the server page. Copy it.
3. In Minecraft: Multiplayer, Add Server, paste the address. Friends use the same address.

Invite people

The join page (the server’s Share settings) is a link you can send: it shows the address, whether the server is up, and wakes a sleeping server when someone opens it.

Good to know

• Sleep when empty is on for the friend presets: the server stops after 15 minutes without players and wakes on the next join. See Server hibernation.
• Everything else lives in the tabs: Console, Files, Backups, Resources (mods, plugins, modpacks), Scheduler, Settings.
• If a friend cannot connect, read Players cannot join before anything else.