Minecraft server hosting

Start on a real 8 GB server

Most hosts start you on 1 or 2 GB and sell you the rest. Orca starts every account on a real 8 GB server: enough for a serious modpack and up to 40 players before you have paid anything. Sign in with Google or Discord and it is live in about 30 seconds, no card and no setup form. The included server pauses when everyone leaves and wakes in about 30 seconds with the world kept, which is the honest trade that makes 8 GB possible at $0. The free Minecraft server hosting page covers exactly what the included tier does and does not do.

Scale by the GB, not by plan tiers

When the world genuinely outgrows the included server, you rent more RAM by the gigabyte: 2 GB at $4.99, 4 GB at $8.99, 8 GB at $17.99, or 16 GB at $34.99 a month. There is no feature matrix to decode because the paid rungs do not gate features. Loaders, modpacks, crossplay, players, and the AI manager are identical on every tier; the only variable is how much memory the world has to work with. That makes sizing simple: watch how the server runs, add a rung when it strains, and drop back down after the event or the modpack phase ends. Month to month, no contract shaped like a gym membership.

Every loader and 6,000+ modpacks

The hosting runs Vanilla, Paper, Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge, and installs from a catalog of 6,000+ modpacks. You do not pick a loader from a dropdown and then fight version mismatches: name the modpack or describe the server you want and Orca matches the Minecraft version and loader for you. Plugins on Paper work the same way, so an economy, land claims, or a minigame stack is a sentence in chat rather than a folder of jars you curate by hand.

Up to 40 players and Bedrock crossplay

The included server holds up to 40 players, and there is no per-slot pricing anywhere on the ladder. Bedrock crossplay is free on every plan: friends on phones, tablets, and consoles join the same world as Java players at the same time, without a second server or a plugin you maintain yourself. For most communities, 40 concurrent players on the included tier is the whole Discord. If yours is bigger than that, you are exactly the server the 8 GB and 16 GB rungs exist for.

An AI admin on every server

Every Orca server ships with an AI server manager you run in plain English: install mods and plugins, restart, run console commands, set the whitelist, and read the crash logs when something breaks. It also builds: describe a mod or plugin that does not exist and Orca writes the code, compiles the jar, and deploys it onto your server. The chat is free on every tier, so the admin experience is the same whether you are on the included 8 GB or the top rung.

Already running a server somewhere else?

You do not have to start over to use Orca. Upload your existing world to a new Orca server and keep playing it, or connect your Minecraft server through its Pterodactyl panel and manage it next to your Orca servers. And if you run an established community, the for server owners page covers what Orca adds on top of the hosting itself.