An address that never moves
Give it out once. It works whether the server is up, asleep, or was restarted an hour ago — your players never need to know which.
Your servers — try stopping one
| Name | Status | Players | Connect | Cost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survival | Running | 4 | survival.eu-west-2.plany.run:25565 | $0.060/hr | |
| Creative | Sleeping | 0 | creative.eu-west-2.plany.run:25566 | $0.000/hr | |
| Scrim night | Sleeping | 0 | scrim.eu-west-2.plany.run:27015 | $0.000/hr |
Stop one. Its address still works and it stops costing you anything — the next player to turn up brings it back.
burn $0.060/hrComes back in seconds
A server that has gone quiet picks up where it left off rather than starting over — so the wait is a few seconds, not the several minutes a modded world usually takes.
A player connects to a sleeping server
Connection accepted
scrim.eu-west-2.plany.run:27015 — the proxy is listening, and always has been.
Held, unread
The socket is open and nothing has read a byte of it. The player’s first packet is still sitting in it.
Server restoring
Its memory image is coming back — not a boot, so no world load and no mod init.
Forwarded
That same first packet arrives at the server, unparsed. The player never noticed.
Nothing is running and it still answers. Press Connect.
Nothing to run overnight
An empty server is not costing you anything. You are not choosing between paying for silence and making people ask you to turn it on.
What a month actually costs
Estimate a month
$3.60
Inside the $5.00 your plan grants each month.
A projection, not a quote. Only the hours a server actually runs are metered — a sleeping server costs nothing, so this is a ceiling for the usage you described.
Who played, and what it printed
Sessions and logs for every server, worked out from the server’s own output — so there is nothing to install in your game and nothing to have been watching.
Sessions and logs
Players online
1
Open connections
3
Sockets, not people.
Waiting to join
0
| Player | Duration | Ended |
|---|---|---|
| Aster | ongoing | Active |
| Bex | 1h 28m | Left |
| Cass | 3h 10m | Expired |
| Dru | 46m 0s | Server stopped |
You get this for every server without installing anything in your game.
The games people ask for
Minecraft, Forge, Counter-Strike 2 and Garry’s Mod are set up and ready. Pick one and name your server — there is nothing else to decide.
The catalogue, resolved
| Setting | Resolved to | From |
|---|---|---|
| Ports | 25565/tcp | Minecraft |
| Sleeps after | 20 minutes idle | Minecraft |
| Runtime | Java 17 | Java |
| Launch | forge-server.jar | Forge |
| Size | 8 vCPU · 32 GiB | Forge |
| Build | forge-1.20.4-49.0.30 | 1.20.4 |
You picked a game and typed a name. Every row here was decided for you, each by the most specific thing in the chain that had an opinion — which is why a modded server is one choice rather than a page of them.
Change it without a rebuild
Settings, size and version are things you change and restart. Nothing to publish and no pipeline to wait for.
Resize it, and restart
Change one and apply it. That is the whole of it — no image to publish, no pipeline to wait on, and the address the server answers on does not move while it restarts.
Or bring your own
Point us at a Steam game or a download and we will get it running, then keep it running the same way every time.
Paste a link to the game you want
Run it on Playpute.
Pick one we already run, or point us at yours. Every plan comes with credit to spend, and you only spend it while people are playing.