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Hetzner Cloud ARM64 vs x86 Server Pricing: Hosting Game Servers for $4/Month

Ampere Altra ARM64 cloud instances deliver astonishing price-to-performance for Minecraft Paper, Terraria, and Valheim servers.

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Kieran Fox
Curated • March 23, 2026
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The Cost Revolution of ARM Cloud Compute

While traditional x86 cloud compute instances continue to rise in monthly cost, Hetzner's Ampere Altra CAX series provides 4 ARM vCPUs and 8GB RAM for roughly €4.50 ($4.90) per month with 20TB of outgoing bandwidth.

Minecraft Paper 1.21 ARM Performance

With native OpenJDK 21 AArch64 builds and Shenandoah GC, our benchmark test ran a 45-player SMP world at a continuous 20.0 TPS with sub-18ms tick durations.

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