FreeGameHost vs
Minehut
Minehut is one of the most recognised free Minecraft hosts — but its free tier is heavily limited. Here's what you actually get on each platform.
Minehut's 3 Hard Limits
These aren't minor inconveniences — they're hard caps baked into the free plan that you can't work around without paying.
Not Enough for Mods
1 GB RAM supports vanilla Minecraft with maybe 5–8 players and a handful of lightweight plugins. Any modpack — even light ones — will cause constant lag or crashes. You need at least 3–4 GB for a smooth modded experience.
Hard Player Cap
Minehut free servers enforce a strict 10-player maximum. The 11th player simply cannot join. If your friend group grows beyond a core few, you'll hit this wall immediately and be forced to upgrade to a paid plan.
Server Turns Off Daily
Minehut free servers are limited to just 4 hours of runtime per day, resetting at 1am PST. Once the 4 hours are up, your server goes offline until the next day — no matter who is playing or what time it is for your friends.
Full Feature Comparison
Every major spec and feature compared side by side.
| Feature | FreeGameHost.xyz | Minehut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever | Free (with strict limits) |
| RAM | 4 GB 4× more | 1 GB Hard limit |
| Player limit | Unlimited | 10 players max Hard cap |
| Daily play time limit | None — runs 24/7 | 4 hours/day Then offline |
| Sleep / inactivity shutdown | No — always online | Yes — hibernates when idle |
| CPU allocation | 200% (2 cores) | Shared AMD EPYC vCPU |
| Storage | 6 GB NVMe SSD | 20 GB (shared container) |
| Mod support (Forge / Fabric) | Full — upload any mod via FTP | Very limited — primarily plugin-only |
| Plugin support | Full — Paper, Spigot, Purpur | Yes — unlimited plugin slots |
| Bedrock Edition support | Yes — dedicated Bedrock server | Beta / lobby-based only |
| FTP / SFTP access | Full SFTP access | File manager in panel |
| Control panel | Pterodactyl (industry standard) | Custom Minehut panel |
| Automated backups | Daily auto + manual snapshots | Available |
| DDoS protection | Cloudflare network | Yes |
| Discord bot hosting | Yes — Python & Node.js | No |
| Terraria hosting | Yes — with tModLoader | No |
| Factorio hosting | Yes | No |
| Server discovery / lobby network | No built-in lobby | Yes — 250k+ monthly network |
| Credit card required | Never | Never |
What Minehut's Limits Actually Mean
The numbers look abstract. Here's what they mean in practice for a typical friend group.
Your group grows to 11 people
You've played 4 hours and someone new wants to join
You want to install a modpack
Where Minehut has an edge
To be fair — Minehut does one thing that FreeGameHost doesn't:
Minehut has a lobby of 250,000+ monthly players. Your server is visible to anyone passing through. If you want to grow a public server and get players you don't know, that discoverability is genuinely useful.
But — the 10-player cap and 4-hour daily limit mean any public server that gains traction will quickly outgrow the free plan anyway.
Minehut's 20 GB container storage is higher than FreeGameHost's 6 GB. If you're managing an extremely large world file or many worlds, that's a practical consideration — though for most friend-group servers 6 GB is more than enough.
Moving from Minehut?
Your world comes with you. The process takes about 10 minutes.
Download your world from Minehut
In the Minehut panel, open the File Manager and navigate to your world folder. Select it and download as a zip. Alternatively, use Minehut's built-in FTP credentials to pull it with FileZilla.
Create your FreeGameHost server
Sign up at panel.freegamehost.xyz — just your email, no credit card. Choose Minecraft Java, pick the same version your Minehut server was running (important for world compatibility).
Upload via SFTP
Use FileZilla or WinSCP with the SFTP credentials shown in your panel. Upload your world folder into the server directory, replacing the default world. Upload any plugins the same way.
Start and share your server address
Hit Start. Your world loads instantly. Share your new IP with your friends — and this time, all of them can join at once, any time of day, with no daily cutoff.
What you gain by switching
Everything Minehut's free tier doesn't give you.
3 GB more RAM
4 GB vs 1 GB — enough for actual modpacks, more players, and heavier plugin setups without lag.
No daily time limit
Play as long as you want, any day. No reset timer, no server going dark at hour 4.
Unlimited players
Invite your whole Discord. No one gets a "server full" message because you've hit an arbitrary cap.
Full mod support
Forge and Fabric modpacks work properly with 4 GB RAM. Upload anything via FTP with no restrictions.
Discord bots + Terraria on the same panel
Host your community's Discord bot and a Terraria server alongside your Minecraft server — all free, all in one place.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from players looking to switch from Minehut.
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