About Server Resources and Provisioning
Server resources is a term that refers to the amount of CPU (Processor), RAM (Memory) and Storage your server includes with your purchase. These three are the main parameters we kept in mind when designing our server plans and calculating our limits in order to avoid overselling services, which would deteriorate the gameplay experience you and your players have. Let's see what each of these parameters do:
CPU is acronym for Central Processing Unit, a little block (or 'Die', to be exact) of silicon placed in the physical server in charge of running your Minecraft world. Whenever you purchase a server from us, you're assigned a 'piece' or two of that die - these 'pieces' are officially called 'Cores'. Your core (or cores, depending on your server plan) will now be in charge of keeping up with every instruction your Minecraft world sends to it. Instructions range from a simple wooden block being broken to 50 Withers being spawned in a 3-block radius. Trivially, the more instructions your Minecraft world sends to your core(s), the harder this/these will work in order to keep up. There's only so many instructions a core can handle before it becomes unable to keep up, causing the famous lagspikes or TPS drops. All our server plans keep this in mind when delivering our Guaranteed Players and Plugins to you.
RAM is acronym for Random Access Memory, small chips that contain millions of capacitors and transistors. RAM is in charge of remembering all the short-term information that is needed for your Minecraft world to run properly. This information could contain, for example, how many apples a player picked up from the floor, how many Withers are currently alive in your world or which blocks are contained in X chunk of it. An appropriate amount of RAM is required in order to avoid server crashes or data corruption.
Storage is acronym for... wait, no, it's not an acronym. It refers to the maximum amount of disk space assigned your Minecraft world's files are able to occupy. As your world progresses and more chunks are discovered, constructions are built and chests get filled, it slowly increases its file size. If your world's file size reaches your plan's limit, it will become unable to save any further modifications unless this limit is increased. You can have a glance at your disk usage at any time by opening your server's control panel.
The moment you complete a server purchase in our Portal, a series of events automatically take place in order to deliver your server as soon as possible. Let's dive into them:
First, our Portal automatically generates an account for you to use in the Control Panel, the website where you can control your Minecraft world. You'll receive credentials for this account via email once it gets created.
Simultaneously, our Portal creates your Minecraft server instance in the location you selected when configuring your server's information. It then lets the Control Panel know about this creation and instructs it to begin the installation proces - this is what automatically installs all required game files into it in order to run properly. This process tends to take between 2-5 minutes, depending on which server software you chose.
Once the installation process is finished, you'll become able to use your server's controls. You can then start, stop, restart, kill (forcefully stop) the server, edit its files, change Java version, server software and do many other things in order to customize it to your liking!
If you have any further enquiries or require any assistance regarding your server provisioning, don't hesitate in opening a ticket. We'll be glad to help you.
CPU is acronym for Central Processing Unit, a little block (or 'Die', to be exact) of silicon placed in the physical server in charge of running your Minecraft world. Whenever you purchase a server from us, you're assigned a 'piece' or two of that die - these 'pieces' are officially called 'Cores'. Your core (or cores, depending on your server plan) will now be in charge of keeping up with every instruction your Minecraft world sends to it. Instructions range from a simple wooden block being broken to 50 Withers being spawned in a 3-block radius. Trivially, the more instructions your Minecraft world sends to your core(s), the harder this/these will work in order to keep up. There's only so many instructions a core can handle before it becomes unable to keep up, causing the famous lagspikes or TPS drops. All our server plans keep this in mind when delivering our Guaranteed Players and Plugins to you.
RAM is acronym for Random Access Memory, small chips that contain millions of capacitors and transistors. RAM is in charge of remembering all the short-term information that is needed for your Minecraft world to run properly. This information could contain, for example, how many apples a player picked up from the floor, how many Withers are currently alive in your world or which blocks are contained in X chunk of it. An appropriate amount of RAM is required in order to avoid server crashes or data corruption.
Storage is acronym for... wait, no, it's not an acronym. It refers to the maximum amount of disk space assigned your Minecraft world's files are able to occupy. As your world progresses and more chunks are discovered, constructions are built and chests get filled, it slowly increases its file size. If your world's file size reaches your plan's limit, it will become unable to save any further modifications unless this limit is increased. You can have a glance at your disk usage at any time by opening your server's control panel.
The moment you complete a server purchase in our Portal, a series of events automatically take place in order to deliver your server as soon as possible. Let's dive into them:
First, our Portal automatically generates an account for you to use in the Control Panel, the website where you can control your Minecraft world. You'll receive credentials for this account via email once it gets created.
Simultaneously, our Portal creates your Minecraft server instance in the location you selected when configuring your server's information. It then lets the Control Panel know about this creation and instructs it to begin the installation proces - this is what automatically installs all required game files into it in order to run properly. This process tends to take between 2-5 minutes, depending on which server software you chose.
Once the installation process is finished, you'll become able to use your server's controls. You can then start, stop, restart, kill (forcefully stop) the server, edit its files, change Java version, server software and do many other things in order to customize it to your liking!
If you have any further enquiries or require any assistance regarding your server provisioning, don't hesitate in opening a ticket. We'll be glad to help you.
Updated on: 02/02/2024
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