Most free hosts put your server to sleep, then leave your friends staring at a connection error until you log in and press start. Ours wakes itself the moment anyone tries to join. No queue, no ads, no credit card, on enterprise Dell hardware with a full control panel.
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Start, stop, console, file manager, backups - manage everything from a clean web panel powered by Pelican.
3 GB RAM free forever. Enough for vanilla or Paper with friends - not a crippled trial.
Paper, Vanilla, Forge and NeoForge supported out of the box. Modpacks welcome.
Your server is deployed in seconds on our Dell PowerEdge infrastructure with striped storage.
If you are paying a monthly subscription just to play with friends, you may not need to.
Realms Plus is $7.99/mo for you and 10 friends, and Realms Core is $3.99/mo for you and 2. Starter here is $0 forever - no credit card, and not a trial.
Realms cannot run Paper plugins or Forge mods. You get a real server with full file access, so modpacks, plugins and datapacks all work.
Realms caps how many people can be online at once. Here the limit is your RAM and your own server settings, not your subscription.
Realms runs 24/7. Your free server sleeps when nobody is playing and wakes in about 30 seconds when someone connects. That is exactly how it stays free.
Invite one friend to Gamers Freedom and your free server gets upgraded from 3 GB to 4 GB - permanently. They just need to sign up, even on the free tier.
Straight answers about how the free tier actually works
Yes. The Starter tier is 3 GB of RAM at no cost, with no advertising, no forced queue and no credit card required. Paid tiers exist for people who outgrow it, but the free tier is not a trial.
It stops after 12 hours with no players connected, which is how the free tier stays sustainable. Nothing is deleted - your world, plugins and configuration are preserved exactly as you left them.
It wakes up automatically. Any player can trigger it just by attempting to connect, and the server is usually ready in about 30 seconds. The owner does not need to be online or open the control panel.
3 GB. Refer one friend who signs up and verifies their email and your free server is permanently upgraded to 4 GB.
No. Creating a free server requires only an email address.
Yes. Paper, Vanilla, Forge and NeoForge are supported out of the box. Most modpacks need more memory than the 3 GB free tier gives you, so Plus at 6 GB is the tier we recommend for modded servers. Pro at 8 GB is there for the biggest kitchen-sink packs.
No. Every server gets an address in the form yourname.gamersfreedom.com, which players can enter on its own with no port number.
Realms Plus is $7.99 a month for you and 10 friends; Realms Core is $3.99 for you and 2. The Starter tier here is free, gives you 3 GB of RAM, and runs the Paper plugins and Forge mods that Realms does not support. The difference is uptime: Realms stays online around the clock, while a free server here sleeps when it is empty and wakes in about 30 seconds when a player connects.
Start free. Running a modpack? Plus is the tier most people want. More tiers coming soon.