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How to Use a Custom Domain for Your Minecraft Server
Pointing your own domain at a Minecraft server takes one CNAME record. The field that breaks it is Name, and on Cloudflare the proxy toggle breaks it silently.
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Pointing your own domain at a Minecraft server takes one CNAME record. The field that breaks it is Name, and on Cloudflare the proxy toggle breaks it silently.

A Minecraft server usually needs less RAM than the plan you are about to buy. The two most-quoted figures disagree, and two commands test the size you have.

Minecraft server hosting from Pixly now runs in Frankfurt as well as Ashburn and Portland, so groups in Europe and the US can each play on a server near them.

Java and Bedrock players can share one world when the Java server runs Geyser to translate Bedrock's protocol and Floodgate to handle Bedrock logins.