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Minecraft server hosting in Denmark.

Run your own Minecraft: Java Edition server, or Bedrock Dedicated Server for Bedrock players, on a Linux VPS in Copenhagen with root access and a dedicated IPv4 address. From $35.90 a month, or $0.0525 an hour to try it first, usually online in under an hour.

$35.90 a month · Copenhagen, Denmark

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At a glance

A Minecraft server in Copenhagen, in nine lines.

Every price is read from the catalogue the cart charges from; every Minecraft fact is from Mojang's pages or the Minecraft Wiki, linked below.

Location
Copenhagen, Denmark. Our only city in Denmark.
Price
From $35.90 a month on Linux, renewing at the same price, or $0.0525 an hour
System
Ubuntu 24.04 or 22.04, which Mojang supports for Bedrock Dedicated Server, or Debian
Access
Root over SSH on a dedicated IPv4 address that you give your players
Minecraft ports
Java Edition 25565 by default; Bedrock UDP 19132 for IPv4 and 19133 for IPv6
Java
Minecraft 26.1 and later need Java 25, per the Minecraft Wiki
Latency
Not measured for Minecraft, so this page prints no ping figure. Choose Copenhagen when your players are near it.
Windows
Not sold in Copenhagen. The Minecraft page lists the cities with Windows Server 2022.
Management
Self-managed: you install the Minecraft server yourself, with the steps on this page

Order

Build your Minecraft server in Copenhagen.

The same order form as our Cloud VPS page, set to Copenhagen and to sizes with 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM or more. It opens on Ubuntu 24.04 and the recommended size, 2 vCPU and 4 GB; choose monthly, or hourly to try it first.

Ordering in Copenhagen, DenmarkOther cities

Step 01

Choose a size

Sizes are fixed shapes, not sliders. Changing size later is a support request, and a smaller size usually means a new server because a disk cannot shrink.

Step 02

Choose an image

Clean vendor images, nothing preloaded that you did not ask for. You can rebuild onto any other image from the panel at any time.

Every image is the vendor's own, unmodified. If you want the machine configured before you log in, add a start-up script below.

Step 03

Choose a term and add-ons

Terms are prepaid. Annual takes 5% off the same monthly rate — it is a discount for paying up front, not a different product.

Billing term

$35.90 charged every month. Switch to annual at any renewal.

How many

One machine. Each one you add is built separately, with its own address and root password.

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Not available on C2-4-30 in Copenhagen: nightly backups cannot be switched on for this machine. Take your own backups off the box, or pick a machine that has them.

Finish line

C2-4-30 in Copenhagen

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS · Monthly · $35.90 due today

Sizes

Which size for your Minecraft server.

Mojang publishes no players-per-size table, so these three sizes are our reading of the official start command and the Minecraft Wiki: start on the recommended size and step up if your world needs it. Prices are today's Linux prices, per month, in Copenhagen.

What Mojang and the Minecraft Wiki say

  • The start command on the official download page is java -Xmx4G -Xms4G -jar minecraft_server.<version>.jar nogui: a 4 GB heap for the server.
  • The Minecraft Wiki recommends at least 2 GB of RAM available for a small server, says larger servers may need 4 GB, and says to reserve at least 5 GB of disk for a world that grows. A Minecraft server mostly uses one core, so the speed of a core matters more than the number of cores.
  • For Bedrock Dedicated Server, Mojang lists 4 GB of RAM and 180 MB to 1 GB of disk.
  • Neither gives a number of players per size, so we print none. Start on the recommended size, watch the server with your real world and players, and step up if it struggles.

Small world

C2-4-30Recommended

2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM

30 GB disk · 1.5 TB transfer

A world for friends or a family. Give Java 2 GB, as the Minecraft Wiki's own start script does, and leave the rest to Ubuntu.

  • Copenhagen$35.90
Choose C2-4-30

Busy server

C2-8-40

2 vCPU · 8 GB RAM

40 GB disk · 1.5 TB transfer

Room for the 4 GB heap in Minecraft.net's own start command, plus Ubuntu, with plugins or a modest mod pack.

  • Copenhagen$50.90
Choose C2-8-40

Large server

C4-16-50

4 vCPU · 16 GB RAM

50 GB disk · 2.5 TB transfer

A big mod pack, a long view distance, or more than one server on the machine, each on its own port.

  • Copenhagen$80.90
Choose C4-16-50

Set up

Set up Minecraft on your server.

These steps follow Mojang's download pages and the Minecraft Wiki's server tutorial, for a Java Edition server on Ubuntu; the last step covers Bedrock Dedicated Server.

Ubuntu

  1. Order Ubuntu. Choose Ubuntu 24.04 or 22.04 in the order form below: the Java server runs on any of the images, and Mojang supports Bedrock Dedicated Server only on Ubuntu 22.04 or later. Connect over SSH as root when the server is ready.
  2. Install Java 25. Install a Java 25 runtime from the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK or Eclipse Temurin instructions for Ubuntu, the two builds the Minecraft Wiki names, and check java -version prints 25.
  3. Get the server. Make a folder, copy the server jar's link from minecraft.net, which also means agreeing to the Minecraft EULA, and download it there.mkdir -p ~/minecraft && cd ~/minecraftwget -O server.jar <link to the server jar>
  4. Write a start script. The wiki's own start.sh, with the memory to suit your size: -Xms1024M -Xmx2048M on the 4 GB size, -Xms4G -Xmx4G on 8 GB or more. Make it executable with chmod a+x start.sh.
    #!/bin/sh
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
exec java -Xms1024M -Xmx2048M -jar server.jar --nogui
  5. Accept the EULA. Run ./start.sh once. It stops after writing eula.txt: open it, change eula=false to eula=true, and run it again.
  6. Keep it running. Start it inside tmux so it carries on after you log out; press Ctrl+B and then D to leave it, and tmux attach -t minecraft to come back. Install tmux with apt install tmux if it is missing.tmux new -s minecraft
  7. Open the port. If a firewall is running on the server, allow 25565; with ufw, the firewall Ubuntu ships with:ufw allow 25565/tcp
  8. Settings. Set the world, max-players, white-list and online-mode in server.properties; with the whitelist on, only players on the list can connect. Players join with your server's IPv4 address.
  9. Bedrock instead. Download the Ubuntu build of Bedrock Dedicated Server from minecraft.net, extract the ZIP into an empty folder, start bedrock_server, and allow UDP 19132 (and 19133 for IPv6).

From Mojang's and the wiki's own pages: the Java Edition server download, the Bedrock Dedicated Server download, the wiki's server tutorial, Bedrock Dedicated Server, server.properties and Java version pages. Read them for anything beyond a first server.

Self-managed

What a game host does for you, and what is yours here.

This is a VPS with root access, not a game panel. You get the whole machine and its address; these jobs are yours.

Backups

Your world is a folder of plain files. Copy it off the server on a schedule, and before every update.

Restarts

tmux keeps the server running after you log out, but does not restart it after a crash. A systemd service does; the Minecraft Wiki lists ready-made ones as third-party scripts.

Updates

A new Minecraft version means a new server jar, and sometimes a newer Java. Download both yourself when you are ready.

A control panel, if you want one

Optional. Free panels such as Pterodactyl give you a web console, file manager and backups on your own VPS.

Bedrock and Java together

Run Bedrock Dedicated Server beside Java, or add GeyserMC, a third-party plugin, so Bedrock players can join your Java server.

Security

Keep SSH to keys, turn the whitelist on for a private server, and open only the Minecraft port you use.

Questions

What people ask before they host Minecraft in Denmark.

How much does a Minecraft server in Denmark cost?
From $35.90 a month in Copenhagen for the smallest size that fits a Minecraft server, 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM, renewing at the same price. You can also run it by the hour from $0.0525 an hour and delete it when you are done.
How much RAM does a Minecraft server need?
The Minecraft Wiki recommends at least 2 GB of RAM available to a small server and says larger servers may need 4 GB. The recommended size here has 4 GB: Java gets 2 GB, as in the wiki's own start script, and Ubuntu runs in the rest. For the 4 GB heap in Minecraft.net's own start command (-Xmx4G -Xms4G), plugins or a mod pack, take the 8 GB size. Mojang lists 4 GB of RAM for Bedrock Dedicated Server.
Java Edition or Bedrock: which server do I need?
The one your players' game uses. Mojang's Java server download works only with Minecraft: Java Edition. Bedrock Edition players, on Windows, consoles and phones, need Bedrock Dedicated Server, which Mojang supports on Ubuntu 22.04 or later. Both run on the sizes on this page.
Which port does a Minecraft server use?
A Java Edition server listens on TCP port 25565 by default, set by server-port in server.properties. Bedrock Dedicated Server uses UDP, port 19132 for IPv4 and 19133 for IPv6. If a firewall is running on the server, allow the port you use; players on a port other than the default add it to the address.
How do I keep the server running after I log out?
Start it inside tmux, a terminal that stays open on the server: run tmux new -s minecraft, start the server, then press Ctrl+B and then D to leave it running. tmux attach -t minecraft brings the console back. The Minecraft Wiki lists systemd services for this too, as third-party scripts.
Can friends on consoles or phones join?
Bedrock players, on consoles, phones and Windows, join a Bedrock Dedicated Server, which runs on these sizes too. To have both on one Java Edition server, many servers add GeyserMC, a third-party plugin that lets Bedrock players connect to a Java server; it is not made or supported by Mojang.
Can I bring my existing world?
Yes. A world is a folder of plain files. Stop the server, copy your world folder into the server's folder over SFTP, set level-name in server.properties to its name if it differs, and start the server again.
Can I run Paper, Fabric, Forge or plugins?
Yes. You have root, so you can run any server software you like. The Minecraft Wiki notes that custom server software such as Paper and Spigot, or Forge and Fabric for mods, is what most large servers use, and that Mojang does not support it, so follow each project's own instructions.
Can I try it first and delete it?
Yes. Choose the hourly term in the order form: the server is billed for the hours it exists, from $0.0525 an hour, and deleting it in the client area stops the meter. A two-hour prepay is taken when it is built, and what you do not use of it comes back to your balance.
Can I pay with crypto?
Yes: card or cryptocurrency (USDT, Bitcoin or Ethereum), and the server costs the same either way. Paying in crypto adds a payment fee of $1 and 5% to the invoice, which the payment page shows before you send anything. Whichever you use, the monthly price renews at the same figure.

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