Minecraft Server Hosting
On-demand hosting for you and your friends with instant setup — your world wakes in seconds when someone joins and sleeps to about $0 when it’s empty. No subscription, no commitment.
Built for the way
you actually play.
Your world runs while friends are online, wakes the moment someone joins, and sleeps to about $0 when it's empty — billed by the minute, never a flat monthly bill. Here's how that works, and who it's for.
A server for every crew
Keep a separate one for each group or game — no per-server fee and no subscription to manage.
Online while you play
It runs the whole time anyone's on, then sleeps once everyone's gone — back right where you left it next time.
Pay for minutes online
Empty for a few minutes and it sleeps to about $0 — you're billed only while players are on.
Weekend & evening crews
You and a few friends play in bursts — a weekend, an evening — then nothing for days.
Made for stop-and-start play — pile in for a weekend, vanish for two weeks, and nothing is lost or wasted in between.
Streamers & community events
A subscriber night, a Discord event, or a launch brings a crowd for a few hours.
Hand a single address to your whole stream or Discord, let the crowd pour in for the night, then shut the event server down when it's over.
Modpack & modded crews
You want a specific modpack or mod list — without editing config files or hunting for the right loader.
Bring the exact pack your crew's been arguing about — the modded setup is handled, so you just play.
PC, console & mobile together
Some friends are on Bedrock, some on Java — and getting everyone onto one server is the hard part.
Everyone piles into the same world — phone, console, or PC, nobody left out.
Solid where it counts
done right, done for you
The unglamorous parts of running a Minecraft server, handled — so you get straight to the game with your friends.
Performance that's all yours
A server close to your players for low latency, with dedicated CPU, RAM, and disk that are yours alone — never shared with another world — so it runs smoothly with no lag, even on a big modpack.
Free daily backups
Every world is backed up automatically each day, with the last seven a single click from restored — a weekend of building is always safe.
Real support in Discord
Get help from a real person in our Discord — usually the founder himself. Drop a message and you'll hear back.
Join the DiscordLocked to your crew.
Decide exactly who gets in with a whitelist, and keep your world private — it's yours and your friends', and nobody else's.
One person
behind the lantern.
Every host handed me the same bad deal: rent muscle that idles all week — or save money and play through the lag.
I wanted to stand up a world for my friends in a few minutes — on whatever version we felt like that night, with whatever mod list we'd been arguing about — and change a setting from a screen instead of editing files over SSH at midnight. What I kept being sold was the trade-off: pay for a strong box that sits empty six days out of seven, or pay less and watch chunks stutter the moment everyone logged on. I refused to pick.
So I built the thing that didn't exist — hosting that's genuinely yours while you play, then gets out of your way (and stops charging you) the moment everyone logs off.
It's me running this — no support desk between us. If something rubs you the wrong way, find me in our Discord or write to me directly. I read every message myself, and the ones that point out what's broken are the ones that built this.
Console and phone friends,
playing right alongside you.
Pixly is Minecraft hosting with a Java server and Bedrock crossplay built in — so friends on console, phone, or tablet join the same world as everyone on Java, with no extra account or computer needed.
Turn it on with one switch.
It lives in your server settings.
Flip it on and we set up Geyser and Floodgate for you — no second server to run, and nothing for your friends to download.
One Java server, Bedrock crossplay on.
Java friends paste the plain address — cozyglade-7x.pixly.gg. Console and phone friends paste the Bedrock one — …pixly.gg:25571.
That’s the only difference. Everyone spawns into the exact same world — same builds, same chat, same evening — whatever they’re playing on.
- Switch
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- iPad
- Android
- Windows
Find a mod. Add it.
It's running next time you play.
Modded Minecraft hosting that stays out of your way: paste a Modrinth link or pick one of the popular ones, and a mod or plugin lands on your server in a click. It downloads and sets itself up the moment the server starts — nothing to unzip, drop into a folder, or match up by hand.
Modded Minecraft server hosting for every loader — Paper, Purpur, Pufferfish, Leaf, Folia, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, or Quilt, on any version, snapshots, betas, even old alphas — and we set the Java build each one needs.
Or grab a whole modpack.
Browse the popular packs, or paste a link to the one you have in mind. We set up the full pack — every mod and config it ships with — and lock in the exact build, so a surprise update never breaks the world you’ve been playing.
Pay by the pixel.
Cheap Minecraft server hosting that bills only for the time you play.
The rate below is the real one — today’s live price for the size and region you choose, the same from your first minute to your thousandth. The monthly figures are estimates from how much you play: players online keep the meter running, and an empty world winds down to about $0.
No “upgrade for backups.”
You get the whole thing.
- No player limit — sizes set CPU & RAM, not a cap — you choose max players
- No storage cap — disk grows automatically with your world, pay only for what you use
- NVMe SSD storage — worlds live on fast NVMe SSDs — quick chunk loads and saves
- Full mod & plugin support — every loader, every version — 120k+ Modrinth mods in one click
- Any modpack supported — whole packs from Modrinth in a click, or hand-pick your own
- Daily backups, free — any of the last 7 days back in a click
- One-switch crossplay — Java, console & mobile friends in one world
- Bring your existing world — drag in your save and you're set up instantly, free
- Your own address — name.pixly.gg, yours to keep
- DDoS protection — always on, so a flood can't knock your world offline
Empty world, $0 — you're never billed for idle time.
A friend joins and you're playing again — no new charge until someone's on.
Charged by the minute, totted up by the hour. No surprise math, no add-ons.
Real questions
from real players.
If it isn't here, email us — we actually reply.
New to Pixly? Read the step-by-step setup guide.
Your world is
minutes away.
Name it, pass the address to your friends, and you're all in moments later. It stays up while you're playing and rests the instant everyone leaves — so what you pay tracks the time you're actually together in the game.