Why host your Minecraft server in the UK?
If your community lives in the UK, Ireland or Western Europe, hosting in the United Kingdom is the single biggest performance upgrade you can make. SurfNode's UK data centre delivers sub-15 ms latency to most British ISPs and under 30 ms across the EU.
Built on the right hardware
Minecraft is single-thread bound — its main tick loop runs on one CPU core. We standardise on high-performance AMD Ryzen CPUs paired with NVMe Gen4 storage so chunk loading and world saves stay instant even with hundreds of generated chunks.
Modpacks, plugins and proxies — all supported
Run vanilla, Paper, Spigot, Forge, Fabric or NeoForge. One-click installs for All The Mods 10, Better MC, RLCraft, Create: Astral and 1,000+ more via CurseForge, FTB and Technic. BungeeCord, Velocity and Waterfall proxies available on request.
Frequently asked questions
- Where are your game servers located?
- All SurfNode servers are hosted in the United Kingdom on high-performance AMD Ryzen hardware with NVMe Gen4 storage — sub-15 ms ping for UK and EU players.
- How fast can I deploy?
- Servers go live in under 60 seconds. Pick your plan, check out, and your Pterodactyl panel is ready immediately.
- Can I upgrade later without losing my world?
- Yes — upgrades are instant from the panel and your world, plugins, mods and player data are preserved.
- Is DDoS protection really included?
- Every plan includes our 800 Gbps game-aware DDoS shield at no extra cost, always on.
- Do you support modpacks?
- Yes — one-click installs from CurseForge, FTB and Technic, plus custom .zip uploads.