Cloud Infrastructure & VPS • March 16, 2026 • 8 Min Read

Sizing a 500-Player Minecraft Network: RAM Allocations for Proxy, Lobby, and Survival

Hardware architecture for multi-server Minecraft networks. Sizing Velocity proxies, lobby hub instances, and separate survival/minigame backend nodes.

E By Elena Rostova, Game Ops Architect

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Architecture of a Scalable Minecraft Network

Never run a 500-player network on a single monolithic server instance. Partitioning traffic across a Velocity proxy, dual lobby nodes, and multiple Paper survival instances isolates lag.

1. Memory Allocation Matrix

Velocity Proxy: 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM
Hub/Lobby 1 & 2: 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM each
Survival SMP:   4 vCPU (High Clock), 16GB RAM
Minigames:      4 vCPU, 12GB RAM

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