The Performance line
Premium Performance Plan
Premium Performance is where the line starts to pay for itself rather than fix a complaint. Twenty-four gigabytes and 4 cores is already enough for a heavy pack; putting it on faster cores means the pack keeps twenty ticks a second while the machines run, the mobs spawn and three people terraform at the same time. It is the size most kitchen-sink packs are actually happy on.
- 4 vCPU
- 24 GB RAM
- 120 GB Enterprise NVMe
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950X or AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- 1 Gbit/s Port
| Term | Price per month | Setup fee |
|---|---|---|
| 24 months | €14.0824 months fixed · then €35.21/mo | None |
| 12 months | €15.0212 months fixed · then €37.56/mo | None |
| 6 months | €15.966 months fixed · then €39.90/mo | None |
| Monthly | €18.78First 6 months · then €46.95/mo | None |
Packs that keep working while nobody is watching
Premium Performance is 24 GB and 4 vCPU. The reason this size is on the fast line at all is automation: a kitchen sink pack does not go quiet when the players log off. Machines keep running, farms keep producing, and every one of those is ticking in the same thread as the players who are online.
A pack with a few hundred machines running has a floor under its tick time before anybody has even joined. Faster cores lower that floor, and the floor is what decides how much room is left for people.
Entities, and why the count matters more than the size
The most common cause of a server at four ticks a second is not memory and not players. It is entity count: item frames in a base, mobs in a farm, items on the floor after somebody died in a stack of chests. Each one is work inside the tick, every tick, forever, whether anyone is near it or not.
24 GB holds an enormous number of them without ever running out of memory, which is exactly the trap: the server has room to load far more entities than one core can process. This line raises the ceiling on the half that actually runs out.
Price, disk and port
Premium is EUR 17.96 a month on the twenty-four month term against EUR 35.21 for Premium Performance, so EUR 17.25 more. The disk is 120 GB Enterprise NVMe and the port steps up to 1 Gbit/s Port.
That port matters on a pack server more than on a vanilla one: a modded client downloads far more world data per player joining, and a full server after a restart is the moment everybody joins at once.
What a pack costs before anyone logs in
Open a heavy pack's world with nobody on it and the tick time is not zero. Chunk loaders keep areas awake, machines pull and push items, mob farms spawn and kill on a timer, and the dimensions the pack added tick alongside the overworld. That is the floor, and everything a player does is stacked on top of it.
24 GB is generous enough that this floor never runs into a memory wall, which is precisely why people are surprised by it: the graph they are watching is flat while the thing that is full is the one they cannot see.
On this line the floor is lower for the same pack. Nothing about the pack changes. What changes is how much of the budget is still yours when six people start doing things at once, which is the state a busy modded server is in most evenings.
Ultimate is the same price, with twice the memory
Premium Performance is EUR 35.21 a month on the twenty-four month term. Plain Ultimate is EUR 35.21, so within a euro of it, with 48 GB against the 24 GB here. That is a real choice and it deserves a straight answer.
Ultimate wins if you are heading towards several worlds or a network. Memory is what splits, and forty eight gigabytes splits into four servers where twenty four does not.
This wins if it stays one server. One world cannot use 48 GB unless something is wrong with it, and the pack that struggles at 24 GB is almost never struggling for room. It is struggling for time inside the tick, and that is what the money buys here.
The server this was built for
A kitchen sink pack a year into its life: three dimensions generated, a base per player, quarries and factories running whether anybody is online or not, and a chunk loader on most of it.
24 GB covers that comfortably and always did. What was never comfortable is that all of it ticks in the same thread as the six people who logged in to play, which is why this size is the first one where the faster line pays for itself rather than fixing a complaint.
How it compares
Premium Performance has 8 GB more memory than Advanced Performance, for €4.50 more a month on the twenty-four month term. If this gets tight, Ultimate Performance is the next step up: 24 GB more for €35.25 more a month.
What runs comfortably on it
Faster cores do not add memory. Premium Performance carries the same 24 GB, and these are the workloads that live inside it: RAM guide.
| What you run | Memory the guide lists |
|---|---|
| Vanilla 1-5 players | 2-4 GB |
| Vanilla 10-20 players | 4-8 GB |
| Light modpack (50 mods) | 4-6 GB |
| Medium modpack (100-150 mods, up to five players; 200 mods needs the next step up) | 6-8 GB |
| Heavy modpack (300+ mods) | 8-12 GB |
| Large community (50+ players) | 16+ GB |
Where you can run it
A heavy pack sends more per action, so the region matters here on top of the machine. You choose it at checkout: 9 locations across the US, the UK, the EU, and Asia-Pacific are included, and the Germany (EU) region costs nothing on top of the plan price. This plan is also available on 18 extra regions in the wider network behind Astroworld, next to the regions we run on our own hardware.
The standard version of this plan
Plain Premium carries exactly the same pack. The line above it is for when that pack is running machines around the clock, not for when it is merely installed. Premium is €17.96 a month on the twenty-four month term against €35.21 for this one.
What a vCPU means on this line
A vCPU on the Performance line is a full thread on an AMD Ryzen 9 5900X in Germany or an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with DDR5 RAM in Poland, reserved for your server for as long as you rent it. That is a different unit from a vCPU on the standard line, so the two counts are not meant to be read against each other. What decides how a server feels is how much of a tick one of them can carry, and on this line one of them carries the whole of what a thread can do.
Questions about Premium Performance
Is this the first plan with a gigabit port?
Yes. Premium Performance is where the port goes from 500 Mbit/s Port to 1 Gbit/s Port, and it stays there on every plan above this one. It is the moment a hundred people downloading the same resource pack stops being a wait.
Can I run several worlds behind a lobby on it?
That is what 24 GB is for. A lobby with two or three worlds behind it is the usual reason people land on this size, and each of those worlds ticks on its own, so the faster core is doing more work here than it is on a single survival server.
How many players does Premium Performance hold?
Fifty or more on one world, and comfortably more than that spread across a network. The honest limit is rarely the memory at this size: it is how much your plugins and your entities ask of one core every tick.
Will this fix my stutter?
Only if one core was what ran out. Read your own two numbers first: memory near full with a healthy tick time means you need a bigger plan, and memory half empty with a tick time climbing towards fifty milliseconds is what this line is for.
What does it cost against plain Premium?
€17.25 a month more on the twenty-four month term: €35.21 against €17.96. You get the same 24 GB and 4 vCPU reserved for your server.
Compare the full lineup
Mini Performance4 GB€3.18First 6 months · then €7.95/moPlus €2.99 setup
Starter Performance8 GB€6.38First 6 months · then €15.95/mo
Standard Performance12 GB€9.58First 6 months · then €23.95/moPremium Performance24 GB€18.78First 6 months · then €46.95/mo
Ultimate Performance48 GB€37.58First 6 months · then €93.95/mo
Enterprise Performance64 GB€49.98First 6 months · then €124.95/mo
Dedicated Performance96 GB€75.18First 6 months · then €187.95/moSee all plansAnswer four questions and we'll pick one for you
Every spec and every price on this page is read from our own price list when the page is built, the same list the checkout charges from.
Delivery: most servers are handed over instantly and run within seconds of payment, the rest follow within 60 minutes during the day and within 12 hours at night.