Game Server Sizing Calculator

Find the right RAM, CPU, and Hostinger plan for your Minecraft, Palworld, ARK, Valheim, or Rust server. Sourced data, honest ranges, no marketing fluff.

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Configure Your Server

single-thread-bound

10
1100
10

RAM scales with view distance squared. Default is 10.

0

~1 GB per 10 plugins is a useful approximation.

Recommended Configuration

RAM

6–13 GB

vCPU

4

Storage

~20 GB

Game Panel 4 (KVM 4)

16 GB RAM4 vCPU200 GB NVMe16 TB BW
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Specific to Your Setup

  • Aikar's Flags strongly recommended (PaperMC publishes them as canonical baseline) — roughly doubles sustained TPS.
  • Set Xms = Xmx (initial heap = max heap) minus 1-1.5 GB OS overhead.
  • Dynmap/BlueMap with unbounded render-resolutions can blow heap — cap them.
  • TPS target is 20.0; below 18 = noticeable lag, below 15 = unplayable.
Base RAM (Minecraft Java — Paper / Purpur / Spigot)4,096 – 6,144 MB
Per-player (10 × 200–400 MB)+2,000 – 4,000 MB
Headroom (×1.30 upper bound)Upper → 12.9 GB
Recommended planGame Panel 4 (KVM 4)

Sources:

Data last verified: 2026-05-10. Numbers are validated quarterly. Major game patches may shift baselines.