{"id":1034,"date":"2021-09-28T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/09\/28\/5605849-how-to-allocate-more-ram-to-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:02:28","slug":"5605849-how-to-allocate-more-ram-to-minecraft-server-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5605849-how-to-allocate-more-ram-to-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Allocate More RAM to Minecraft Server at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">In order to allocate more RAM to your Minecraft server, first select your <b>Instance<\/b> and double-click to <b>Manage<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/45b9a34a-4bf7-4123-b426-7f7da203d775.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4176\" alt=\"Minecraft server card showing the Memory usage field at 0.45\/3.60 GB and the running status\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">From there, navigate to the <b>Configuration<\/b> section:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/b06300f5-e21c-4d75-ac68-343b1a0cec15.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4178\" alt=\"Minecraft server panel menu with Configuration option highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">Then, navigate to the <b>Minecraft<\/b> section on the left sidebar and select <strong>J<\/strong><b>ava and Memory <\/b>on the top bar.<b> <\/b>You can change the<b> Memory Limit (MB)<\/b> here:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/09\/2b5e3167-7d1c-4cf6-869d-7e557914512c.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4179\" alt=\"Minecraft server Java and Memory tab, Memory Limit (MB) field highlighted with 3686 entered\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b>:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">You can&rsquo;t set up more memory than your plan provides<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">We recommend&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><strong>allocating at least 512 MB&nbsp;<\/strong>of the provided RAM <\/span>to prevent server crashes and instabilities. For example, if your VPS has 2 GB of RAM, the maximum setting for <b>Memory Limit<\/b> should be <b>1536 MB<\/b>. In case you need more memory &ndash; consider an <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583229-how-can-i-upgrade-my-vps-server\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upgrade<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>After the Game Panel plan upgrade, you need to adjust&nbsp;<strong>the Memory Limit (MB)&nbsp;<\/strong>manually by following the steps in this article.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to dedicate more RAM to your Minecraft Server via Game Panel at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-panel"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5605849-how-to-allocate-more-ram-to-minecraft-server-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5605849-como-asignar-mas-ram-a-tu-servidor-de-minecraft-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5605849-comment-attribuer-plus-de-ram-a-votre-serveur-minecraft-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5605849-bagaimana-cara-menambah-ram-server-minecraft-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5605849-como-alocar-mais-memoria-ram-ao-seu-servidor-minecraft-no-hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}