Ultimate Performance Plan
Ultimate Performance carries several worlds at once, which is exactly the case where a slow core hurts most: every server behind a lobby has its own tick loop, and they do not take turns politely. Forty-eight gigabytes divides neatly into three or four of them, and on this line each one gets a core that finishes its tick with room left.
- 12 vCPU
- 48 GB RAM
- 250 GB NVMe
- AMD EPYC
- 1 Gbit/s Port
| Term | Price per month | Setup fee |
|---|---|---|
| 24 months | €85.39 | None |
| 12 months | €91.39 | None |
| 6 months | €94.39 | None |
| Monthly | €97.39 | €2.99 once |
Several worlds, several tick loops
Ultimate Performance is 48 GB and 12 vCPU, and it is the first size where the question stops being about one server. Three or four servers behind a lobby each run their own tick loop, and those loops do not take turns politely: they all want a core at the same moment, which is usually the moment an event starts.
Splitting memory across them is arithmetic. Splitting speed across them is not, and that is the part that decides whether the survival world stutters while the minigame server is busy.
What a network actually asks for
A lobby holds the most players and does the least work, a survival world does the most work with the fewest players, and a minigame server swings between the two every few minutes. They have almost nothing in common except that they are all single threaded, and they are all on this machine.
On 12 vCPU that works out to roughly one server per three cores with room left for the proxy and the backups, which is the layout most networks this size settle on anyway.
Price against Ultimate
Ultimate is EUR 47.99 a month on the twenty-four month term, Ultimate Performance is EUR 85.39, a difference of EUR 37.40. Disk 250 GB NVMe, port 1 Gbit/s Port.
Worth saying plainly: at this size the difference per server behind the lobby is small, because you are dividing it by three or four.
Dividing forty eight gigabytes, and what does not divide
48 GB across four servers is twelve each, and that arithmetic is the easy part: you set it once and it holds. A lobby needs far less than twelve, a survival world can use more, and the split is something you decide rather than something that fights you.
Processor time does not work like that. Every server behind the lobby has its own tick loop asking for a core whenever it is busy, and busy is not evenly spread: the event starts, the lobby fills, the minigame server spins up and the survival world is still doing whatever it was doing. They collide.
12 vCPU on faster cores is what keeps that collision from being visible. It is also why a network feels different from one big server even when the total numbers look the same on paper.
Against Enterprise and Dedicated on the standard line
Two comparisons matter at this size. Plain Enterprise is EUR 67.99 a month on the twenty-four month term with 64 GB, cheaper than the EUR 85.39 here. Plain Dedicated is EUR 87.99 with 96 GB, which is close to this price with twice the memory.
If the plan is to keep adding servers behind the lobby, the standard line is the cheaper road and you should take it. Memory per euro is simply better there and it always will be, because it is the same machines we have always rented.
This is the road when the count of servers is settled and the complaint is how they behave when they are all busy at once. That is not a memory problem and no amount of gigabytes will answer it.
The server this was built for
A lobby, a survival world, a creative world and a minigame server, all behind one address, all owned by the same person, all busy at the same hour on a Friday.
48 GB divides across those four without argument. The Friday evening is the part that does not divide, and it is the part this line is for.
How it compares
Ultimate Performance has 24 GB more memory than Premium Performance, for €38.30 more a month on the twenty-four month term. If this gets tight, Enterprise Performance is the next step up: 16 GB more for €28.80 more a month.
What runs comfortably on it
Ultimate Performance has 48 GB to divide over however many worlds you run. The guide sorts them like this: 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
Every world behind one lobby lands in the same place, so the region is picked once for all of them, 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 3 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 Ultimate runs the same number of worlds. Whether they need faster cores depends on how often they are all busy at the same time, and that is worth answering before paying for it. Ultimate is €47.99 a month on the twenty-four month term against €85.39 for this one.
Compare the full lineup
Mini4 GBfrom €6.99 a month on a twenty-four month term
Starter8 GBfrom €8.79 a month on a twenty-four month term
Standard12 GBfrom €13.59 a month on a twenty-four month term
Premium24 GBfrom €23.99 a month on a twenty-four month termUltimate48 GBfrom €47.99 a month on a twenty-four month term
Enterprise64 GBfrom €67.99 a month on a twenty-four month term
Dedicated96 GBfrom €87.99 a month on a twenty-four month termSee 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.