# TrueTick — Minecraft server hosting with live TPS and no overselling

> Minecraft hosting built around one invariant: no hidden overselling. Guaranteed per-server CPU (enforced in code), live TPS/MSPT plus a 24-hour tick history on the dashboard for tick-capable cores (Paper, Purpur, Forge, NeoForge, plus Vanilla and Fabric from Minecraft 1.20.3; on Paper, Purpur, Vanilla and Fabric from Minecraft 1.20.3 the rate is counted off the world's own tick counter rather than inferred from tick time, while Forge, NeoForge and older Paper/Purpur report their own rate and we pass it through), and billing that is metered ($0.012 per active GB-hour, scale-to-zero — sleeping servers cost nothing) or flat ($3/GB-month). Public REST API, TypeScript SDK, CLI with a live plugin dev loop, and an MCP server.

## Product
- [Home](https://truetick.gg/): what TrueTick is and how wake-on-join + metered billing work
- [Pricing](https://truetick.gg/pricing): metered vs flat, price by RAM tier
- [For developers](https://truetick.gg/developers): REST API, TypeScript SDK, CLI dev loop, MCP server
- [Live fleet status](https://truetick.gg/status): real aggregated fleet TPS, at most 15 seconds old
- [Trust & security](https://truetick.gg/trust): where data sits, how backups and node auth work, what we never touch

## Comparisons
- [TrueTick vs DatHost: a generous flat 16 GB box vs metered, scale-to-zero hosting](https://truetick.gg/compare/dathost): DatHost sells one generous 16 GB flat plan on premium hardware — strong if your server runs 24/7. Where metered billing and a live tick number change the maths.
- [TrueTick vs Godlike: a promo-gated flat price vs metered, scale-to-zero](https://truetick.gg/compare/godlike): Godlike's price rides a rotating promo, and the model is flat per slot. Here's how metered, scale-to-zero billing compares.
- [TrueTick vs Hostinger: a managed metered game host vs a self-managed VPS](https://truetick.gg/compare/hostinger): Hostinger's Minecraft plan is a VPS you administer yourself, and its $6.99/mo headline is a 24-month prepayment renewing at $11.99. How a managed host compares.
- [TrueTick vs WiseHosting: a real tick number vs a percentage with no base](https://truetick.gg/compare/wisehosting): WiseHosting rates plans in '% CPU Power', a number with no stated base, and its price is a 50%-off promo. Here's how a host that shows the actual tick compares.
- [TrueTick vs Apex Hosting: established flat-monthly host vs metered, never-oversold hosting](https://truetick.gg/compare/apex-hosting): Apex Hosting is a large Minecraft-only host built on flat monthly plans and a deep support library. Here's how metered, never-oversold hosting compares.
- [TrueTick vs BisectHosting: Budget/Premium flat hosting vs metered, never-oversold hosting](https://truetick.gg/compare/bisecthosting): BisectHosting splits hosting into Budget and Premium flat-monthly tiers with a huge modpack catalog. Here's how metered, never-oversold hosting compares.
- [TrueTick vs Aternos: free hosting vs never-oversold paid hosting](https://truetick.gg/compare/aternos): Aternos is free and great for trying Minecraft. Here's where free hosting hits its ceiling — and when never-oversold paid hosting is worth it.
- [TrueTick vs Exaroton: two pay-as-you-go hosts, compared](https://truetick.gg/compare/exaroton): Exaroton also meters by the gigabyte-hour and sleeps when empty; at July 2026 exchange rates their rate is lower. They share CPU cores by design; we don't.
- [TrueTick vs Shockbyte: cheap flat hosting vs metered, never-oversold hosting](https://truetick.gg/compare/shockbyte): Shockbyte is a popular budget flat-monthly host. Here's what 'cheap' usually trades away — and how to check it on any host, including ours.

## Guides
- [How to sync player data across regions in a multi-region network](https://truetick.gg/guides/cross-region-player-data): Multi-region networks don't share player data between regions. Sync it yourself with a plugin and your own database — and what we don't promise.
- [Minecraft server out of memory: what actually causes it](https://truetick.gg/guides/minecraft-server-out-of-memory): Exit code 137, OutOfMemoryError and silent restarts are three different failures. How to tell them apart, and why a heap equal to your tier causes most of them.
- [How to use a truetick server as a backend for an external Velocity proxy](https://truetick.gg/guides/external-velocity-proxy): Put a truetick server behind a Velocity proxy on another host: the exact steps, the deterministic public port, and why the proxy needs a full restart.
- [How to set up a Minecraft server network (Velocity proxy)](https://truetick.gg/guides/minecraft-server-network): Link several Minecraft servers into one network: a Velocity proxy with backends players hop between in one session. What the panel does, and errors to expect.
- [Pre-tuned server configs: exactly what we change and why](https://truetick.gg/guides/pre-tuned-server-configs): Every JVM server here starts with Aikar's GC flags and two server.properties keys, plus seeded config files on Paper and Purpur. What each one does, and why.
- [How to make a Minecraft server (2026 guide)](https://truetick.gg/guides/how-to-make-a-minecraft-server): A plain-English guide to making a Minecraft server: self-hosting vs a provider, picking Paper or Fabric, RAM by player count, and getting friends connected.

## Help — using the panel
- [Give someone access to one server](https://truetick.gg/help/per-server-access): Invite a helper to specific servers on the account instead of the whole thing — what they can see and do, how to change the set later, and how to take it away.
- [Set up voice chat](https://truetick.gg/help/voice-chat): Simple Voice Chat on your server: open the UDP port, what we configure for you and when, the one permission step LuckPerms needs, and how to check that voice is really working.
- [Audit log: who did what](https://truetick.gg/help/audit-log): What gets recorded, the confirmed gaps (file edits, mod/plugin installs, IP bans, the whitelist toggle, and more), why the retention window isn't what the panel's own label says, and why the 'who' column can't yet tell your teammates apart.
- [Back up and restore your server](https://truetick.gg/help/backups-restore): Take a manual backup, download one, and restore your world — what gets archived, what restore overwrites, and why it requires a stopped server.
- [Change your server's RAM plan](https://truetick.gg/help/change-ram-plan): Resize a metered or flat server's RAM from the panel — what applies immediately, how flat proration works, and why free-plan servers don't have this tab at all.
- [Connect and share your server](https://truetick.gg/help/connect-and-share): Where your Java and Bedrock addresses come from, how extra ports like voice chat actually work, why Bedrock crossplay isn't always available, and letting an external proxy dial in directly.
- [Bind a server to Discord](https://truetick.gg/help/discord-bridge): What the Discord bridge actually gives you — chat relay, /whitelist, /status — how to bind a guild without the bot missing from it, and how to unbind.
- [Import an existing world](https://truetick.gg/help/import-world): Move a world you already have onto your TrueTick server: what archive formats work, the size limit, and what the import replaces.
- [Install plugins and mods](https://truetick.gg/help/install-plugins-mods): Search and install from the catalog or upload your own .jar — what the section is called, what's unpinned, and when changes take effect.
- [Manage server files](https://truetick.gg/help/manage-files): Browse, edit, upload and delete files in the panel, plus when to switch to an SFTP client instead.
- [Manage worlds](https://truetick.gg/help/manage-worlds): Switch the active world, delete one you no longer need, and install the plugins the panel recommends alongside it.
- [Create a plugin database](https://truetick.gg/help/mysql-database): Provision a MySQL-compatible database for plugins like LuckPerms or CoreProtect, find its connection details, and what happens to it when the server is deleted.
- [Find your way around the panel](https://truetick.gg/help/panel-tour): A map of the dashboard: the server list, what a server's own page shows, every section in its rail, and the account pages around it.
- [Manage players, whitelist and ops](https://truetick.gg/help/players-whitelist-ops): Enforce the whitelist, grant operator, ban or kick players — and why the whitelist list alone doesn't restrict who can join.
- [Set up scheduled tasks](https://truetick.gg/help/schedules): Automate restarts, RCON commands and backups on a cron schedule — what each kind does, how to write the cron expression, and what happens on a sleeping server.
- [Use the server console](https://truetick.gg/help/server-console): Run commands on a live server, read its console output even when it's stopped, and know the difference between the live view and the downloadable log file.
- [Server networks (Velocity proxy)](https://truetick.gg/help/server-networks): The Network tab, proxy-only: regions, wiring state, authentication mode, and attaching backends — and why a metered proxy is a bad idea.
- [Configure server settings](https://truetick.gg/help/server-settings): Every tab under Settings — General, Version & world, Properties, Alerts, Public page, and Danger — what each field does, which changes need a restart, and where the other Settings tabs actually live.
- [Team members: invites, roles and access](https://truetick.gg/help/team-members): Who can invite, what a Member can and can't do compared to an Owner, and how to revoke access — by what the permission checks actually enforce.
- [Wake-on-join and hibernation](https://truetick.gg/help/wake-hibernate): Why a sleeping server costs nothing, what actually wakes it, how to turn off join-triggered wake, and the one wake-time measurement we can actually stand behind.
- [Wallet: top-ups, auto top-up, spend cap and the ledger](https://truetick.gg/help/wallet-billing): How to add funds, what auto top-up actually does (it never charges you automatically), the monthly spend cap, reading the ledger, and what happens when the balance hits zero.

## Modpack hosting
- [Modpacks index](https://truetick.gg/modpacks): run popular Modrinth packs with automatic install
- [Zombie Invade 100 Days server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/zombie-invade-100-days)
- [Cobblemon Official Modpack [Fabric] server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/cobblemon-fabric)
- [COBBLEVERSE - Pokemon Adventure [Cobblemon] server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/cobbleverse)
- [Better MC [FABRIC] - BMC2 server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/better-mc-fabric-bmc2)
- [Vanilla Perfected server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/vanilla-perfected)
- [The Pixelmon Modpack server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/the-pixelmon-modpack)
- [Better MC [FORGE] - BMC4 server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/better-mc-forge-bmc4)
- [Prominence™ II: Hasturian Era server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/prominence-2-fabric)
- [Slimes Adventure server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/slimes-adventure)
- [Cobblemon Delta server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/cobblemondelta)
- [Cave Horror Project 1 server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/cave-horror-project-modpack)
- [Aged server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/aged)
- [ArdaCraft server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/ardacraft)
- [RealisticCraft server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/realisticcraft)
- [Landscapes Reimagined Genesis server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/landscapes-reimagined-genesis)
- [Create+ server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/create_plus)
- [the horrors in the fog server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/the-horrors-in-the-fog)
- [Cobblemon Brasil [Mobile] server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/brasil-cobblemon-mobile)
- [Cobblemon Official Modpack [NeoForge] server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/cobblemon-neoforge)
- [Servidor Jornadas Cobblemon server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/jornadas-cobblemon)
- [Optimized fps server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/optimized-fps)
- [Parasites: Reloaded server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/parasites-reloaded)
- [OptiFine for Fabric server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/optifine-for-fabric)
- [Re-Console server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/legacy-minecraft)
- [Backrooms: Found Footage server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/backroomsff)
- [Homestead server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/homestead)
- [SkyBlock Plus server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/skyblock-plus)
- [BlockFront server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/blockfront-mod-pack)
- [Pokemania Cobblemon server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/pokemania)
- [XPlus PerioTable Modpack (Fabric) server hosting](https://truetick.gg/modpacks/xplus-2.0-modpack-global)

## Blog
- [A live dev loop for Minecraft plugins (and the API behind it)](https://truetick.gg/blog/live-dev-loop-for-minecraft-plugins): Stop hand-uploading jars. truetick dev rebuilds, uploads, restarts and tails the log on every save, on a metered scale-to-zero server. Plus the SDK and API.
- [Why your Minecraft server lags at 8pm (and more RAM won't fix it)](https://truetick.gg/blog/why-your-minecraft-server-lags-at-8pm): Prime-time lag isn't a memory problem. It's what CPU overselling does to Minecraft's single-threaded tick — and how to spot it on any host.
- [What is TPS and MSPT — and how to check what your host really gives you](https://truetick.gg/blog/what-is-tps-and-mspt): TPS and MSPT are the two numbers that define how a Minecraft server feels. Here's what they mean, how to read them, and why most hosts won't show them.
- [We show our live TPS. Here's why that's still rare.](https://truetick.gg/blog/we-show-our-live-tps): TrueTick puts live TPS and MSPT on your dashboard and refuses to oversell cores. How it works under the hood — and why this is rare.

## Developer docs
- [Docs portal](https://docs.truetick.gg/): quickstart, authentication, concepts, guides
- [API reference](https://docs.truetick.gg/api-reference): generated from source; public key-accessible endpoints only
- [OpenAPI spec](https://docs.truetick.gg/openapi.json)