≤8 playersnative Linuxsingle-threadHost it here
≈ $10/mo
playing ~12 h/week on the metered plan, billed only while the server is actually up. Always-on is $29.99/mo · about $7.50 each split between 4 players, 1 core dedicated, never shared.
Single-thread tick (20 TPS / 50ms). One physical core (tick thread + its SMT sibling for chunk-gen/IO) comfortably holds a normal server; a 2nd core only for big/busy worlds.
Get the game
You buy Minecraft (Vanilla) once from Minecraft.net. NecroHost rents you the server it runs on, which is the monthly figure above.