pricing & hardware
We don’t sell burst you might not get.
We reserve the core, so your worst moment looks like your average moment. Here’s what that costs, and exactly what the money buys.
the model
Two ways to sell a CPU. We picked the boring one.
Most hosts sell burst CPU. Your server shares a pool of cores with every other server on the machine, and you get extra speed only when nobody else is using it. That’s great on a quiet Tuesday and rough on a busy Saturday, because your performance depends on how honestly the host manages everyone else’s servers.
We reserve your CPU instead. The top speed is the same either way; it’s the same fast chip. What changes is the worst case. When another server spikes, say a player flying into fresh terrain and generating chunks, that spike lands on their core, not yours. Your TPS doesn’t care what the neighbors are doing.
Steady performance is the whole product. It’s also the expensive part, because a core we reserve for you can never be sold twice. That’s why it can’t cost the same as a slice of a shared pool.
the plans
Two rates, one honest step between them.
Every plan runs in its own virtual machine, and the RAM you pay for is reserved for you in hardware, always. The step up at 8 GB isn’t just more memory. It’s a different product: a whole physical CPU core with nobody else on it.
one CPU thread that is always yours, plus the whole core whenever your neighbor is idle
vanilla or light plugins · 10–20 players
one CPU thread that is always yours, plus the whole core whenever your neighbor is idle
light modpacks · 25–30 players
a whole physical core, both threads, with no other customer ever on it
heavy modpacks · 40+ players · networks
Pick the RAM and the CPU follows: every 4 GB comes with more reserved silicon, up to two full cores. And a core here is always a real physical core, never a vague “vCPU.”
12 GB · a full physical core, plus a dedicated thread
16 GB and two cores is the ceiling for a single server. Need more than that? Write to us and we’ll spec it together.
Quarterly billing takes 5% off, semi-annual 10%, annual 15%. Monthly is the price shown, with no teaser rates that jump at renewal.
the bundle
Included, not upsold.
Every plan ships with roughly $8–11/mo of extras other hosts sell as paid add-ons. So when a cheaper headline price catches your eye, add up the extras you’d actually need. It usually lands right next to ours, minus the reserved CPU.
- Enterprise DDoS protection via Path.netelsewhere: paid add-on or absent
Always-on, game-aware attack filtering from a premium mitigation network, not a checkbox on an order form.
- Off-site backups & snapshotselsewhere: ~$3–8/mo
Up to 300 GB of backups stored away from your machine, plus one saved snapshot of your whole VM for quick rollback.
- Dedicated IP on every planelsewhere: ~$2–3/mo
Your own IP address, so players connect without a port number tacked on. Included on every plan.
- Full NVMe storage, DDoS-protected network, panel & SFTPelsewhere: varies
The baseline, on every plan, with no asterisks.
the panel
Not Pterodactyl with a coat of paint.
Nearly every host runs the same open-source panel and sells the same $10 marketplace extensions back to you as “features.” gummysnacks is built from the ground up for this hosting: the panel, the agent on your machine, and the in-game companion are all ours, built and tested for your game and integrated with the infrastructure underneath it.
A real console, not a log tail
Type a command and it just runs. The console is a live connection straight to your server: output streams in instantly, and tab-completion works for commands and even online player names, the same as sitting at the server itself.
TPS on the dashboard
The same companion reports live ticks-per-second into your server stats, so the consistency we sell is a number you can watch, not a promise you take on faith.
Nothing heavy running beside your game
The agent on your machine is one small, self-contained program with the panel built right in. No stack of extra services quietly eating the RAM and CPU you paid for.
Full file management & two-layer backups
Browse, edit, and upload your server files right in the panel. Backups run at two levels: quick snapshots of your whole machine for instant rollback, plus copies stored off-site on a schedule you control.
Owning the whole stack is also what makes features like Airbag, Meltdown, and Zig-Zag possible. See the snacks for what’s shipping when.
the price, earned
Why $4.50–4.75 per GB is the fair number.
You’re paying for a reserved core, not a bigger one.
Minecraft’s speed limit is single-core speed, and it’s the same whether the core is reserved or shared. The difference shows up on busy nights: on burst hosts everyone spikes at once, the cores get divided up, and TPS drops right when you have the most players online. On a reserved core, that busy night is yours alone. We sell the steady floor, and we make it by reserving real cores instead of selling the same one twice.
“Dedicated” here is specific, and checkable.
Plenty of hosts say “dedicated cores” and mean a rate limit on a shared chip, without telling you whether a “core” is one thread or two. On our 8 GB+ plans it means exactly one thing: a full physical core, both threads, locked to your server, with no other customer ever placed on it. Any benchmarks we publish will show performance under real load, not a single idle score that makes every host look equally good.
The bundle is in the price.
Premium hosts at $5–6/GB commonly bill DDoS tiers, off-site backups, and dedicated IPs on top. Ours are included at $4.50–4.75/GB. That’s how we can be premium and still the value pick within premium: cheaper than budget hosts once you add what you need, and more consistent than any of them because the core is actually yours.
under the hood
How your server actually runs.
Current-generation AMD Ryzen 9 machines (9900X and 9950X), picked for the spec that decides Minecraft tick performance: sustained single-core speed. Here’s what happens on them.
“A whole virtual machine” might sound heavier than the container slot most hosts sell. It isn’t. KVM is hardware virtualization: your server’s instructions run directly on the CPU, not through an emulation layer, so the overhead is next to nothing. What you gain is real. Your VM has its own kernel and its own scheduler, which means another customer’s crash, memory leak, or 3 a.m. meltdown stays inside their machine instead of taking yours down with it. It’s also what makes some of our best features possible at all: Airbag can hotplug emergency RAM into a running server only because there’s a real machine to plug it into.
We don’t run standard, off-the-shelf VM images either. Ours are stripped down to what a game server actually needs, which keeps the VM itself light on RAM and quick to start: even a full cold reboot usually takes under 30 seconds, on the rare day you need one.
- your own vm
- every server runs in its own KVM virtual machine, not a container slot on a shared box. Your files, your RAM, and your slice of the CPU are walled off from every other customer
- reserved ram
- the DDR5 memory on your plan is reserved for you in hardware the moment your server is built. It’s never oversold and never quietly swapped out under pressure
- cpu pinning
- your VM is locked to specific physical cores and stays there, kept within one region of the chip’s cache, so it never pays a penalty for being shuffled around
- who shares
- 8 GB+ plans: a core to yourself. 4 and 6 GB plans: at most one other server on your core, with equal priority and room to burst
- storage & network
- NVMe storage everywhere, on a Path.net-protected network with enterprise game filtering
- hands-free setup
- when you order, your VM builds, sizes, and enrolls itself automatically, and the agent inside keeps reporting health and live TPS back to your panel
the fine print, early
Words we use carefully.
- “dedicated core”
- Only ever said about 8 GB+ plans, where both threads of a physical core belong to your server and no other customer is ever placed on it. The 4 and 6 GB plans are “a dedicated thread + burst”: never a big shared pool, and never more than one other server on your core.
- “no overselling”
- Said about RAM, which we commit 1:1 on every plan. On shared-core tiers it does not mean dedicated CPU; that would be the same fuzzy claim we built this product to get away from.
- “benchmarks”
- If we publish them, they’ll measure how steady TPS stays and how bad the worst ticks get across a busy window, not one run on an empty machine. A single idle score flatters burst hosts and hides the thing we’re actually selling.
- “DDoS protection”
- Enterprise L3/L4 filtering via Path.net, accurate to what’s actually filtered. Like everything above, it’s written into the SLA at launch, and you can check us yourself.
Questions about a plan, or a workload that doesn’t fit neatly into one? Write to office@gummies.cloud, and if a budget host is honestly the better fit, we’ll tell you that too.