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barely any problems, low ping. only complains is that waiting to wake the server up takes 30-60mins and that you can only have one server(idk anything, but they could make so that you can store multip... See more
Play.hosting is truely one of the best Minecraft hosting providers, they have a lovely staff, Tibo who makes amazing videos and shows the behind the scenes of the effort to make play.hosting the best... See more
I have used this service since it first came out. The performance is top notch and is ever increasing. My servers runs as if it was paid for, even when I was running a heavily modded modpack. I have l... See more
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We offer free Minecraft server hosting with equal or better hardware to top paid providers/hosts. We also offer dedicated hardware rental with Ryzen 9 CPUs and a high memory VPS platform.
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Brighton, United Kingdom
- contact@play.hosting
- play.hosting
4.5
Excellent
77 reviews
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Replied to 57% of negative reviews
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Fast and Reliable
Fast and Reliable. For a free host it really does tick every single box. Fast queue system, fast file uploading, and overall a pleasant experience.
26 July 2026
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Reply from Play Hosting
Thanks a ton!
Great free hosting website
Surprisingly easy to use for my inexperience! Also super great that its completely free
25 July 2026
Unprompted review
Better Than Aternos
This Is The Best Minecraft Hosting Website Compared To Aternos Who Are Crap
1 May 2026
Unprompted review
Great as a free hosting server
Great as a free hosting server. Get to play with my friends WW
2 July 2026
Unprompted review
absolute dogshit
absolute dogshit, will terminate server uptime when configuring it. -10/10 would not reccomennd
23 July 2026
Unprompted review
Reply from Play Hosting
Terminate is the wrong word here. The server is returned to the database if no one logs in for over 10 minuets. There is no data loss & this is 5x more time than other free platforms.
terrible
was playing with a group of people on discord
server just went down
entire website said no servers were online
what in arse rape is this??
dogshit
27 May 2026
Unprompted review
Reply from Play Hosting
Judge us by our enemies...
Reply from Play Hosting
Yeah lowkey your right about that. Since you posted this review we have rebuild how our files system works with a new database and more backups.
Unable to join no matter what
I set up a server yesterday to be ready, however I go to join and now the server doesn't work. It starts but is unjoinable. It worked yesterday. I assume your damned limbo system is what's causing this problem, causing us to have missing major files.
21 December 2025
Unprompted review
Great if you don't have a problem with losing all your data
One day I went to turn on my server and all the files were gone with no way to get them back. Lost lots of progress.
8 October 2025
Unprompted review
banned half the community from using their service lol
I saw this and immediately noticed that they don't let "the other" users play, which makes up a big majority of my community and the general MC community, and switched back to Aternos.
Of course LILYPAD, the paid version, offers cracked servers. (my last and only stint with them, they randomly deleted my server and everything on it)
Pathetic guys, come on. Use Aternos, or Oracle Cloud.
18 September 2025
Unprompted review
Reply from Play Hosting
This is not true. We just don't promote it as it breaks the Mojang EULA 👍
It was OK hosting, but data lost
It was OK hosting, the server was not laggy. Only problem is it once went into 'Limbo Mode' and said I would get my server back shortly. I never did to this day, it's still in that mode. Also occasionaly - every so often - it for some reason deletes all my plugins and other data. But this is free and I know it's hard to host a Minecraf server, so credits to Tubbo.
10 August 2025
Unprompted review
Great way to lose data
You create a server, one day you find out your backups have failed and the server rolls back a week. You contact support, never get an answer. Once you accept that your server has now rolled back, you play on it, next day it doesn't start up for 3 days. Support never replies, you rarely get any clue to what's going on and when it's getting fixed.
13 August 2025
Unprompted review
Great free host owned by tubbo 10/10…
Great free host owned by tubbo 10/10 server host would use again really awesome and great support and the fact its free and runs like this is awesome
15 May 2025
Unprompted review
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