0 Players on Server??

The Aternos forums are now deprecated

Learn more about this change here.

For help regarding Aternos, we recommend you to visit our support center.

1st Official Post

    Hello I was wondering if you could keep the server up with 1/10 people on the server so you don't have to restart it everytime. So it would close if there would be 0 people on the server so it still wont be 24/7. Please cause every time I have to restart for an extra person. Then sometimes when I restart it thinks I'm stopping it then I have the wait the 30 minutes again. Also because so more people can join quickly. If you deny this at least make a code so you can keep your server up for 1/10. Please Make it so you can have at least one person without it going down. :) Thank you3

    Aternos is meant for private use. So you should ask your friends if they want to play before you start your server. If you are hoping random people will join, you should look for a different host that is meant for public use :)

    Just some insight, from what I understand already from my own end. Aternos' resources are limited, and it would most likely take up too much space to do that, unless they had a larger database... Even at that, they may have to end up charging people for that in the future if they had went that route, which would completely defeat the purpose of the system being free for consumers. Hopefully I'm correct in what i'm saying, or at least mostly correct, after all it is the most logical thing to get from this situation.

    Quote from DoctorSiggy

    Just some insight, from what I understand already from my own end. Aternos' resources are limited, and it would most likely take up too much space to do that, unless they had a larger database... Even at that, they may have to end up charging people for that in the future if they had went that route, which would completely defeat the purpose of the system being free for consumers. Hopefully I'm correct in what i'm saying, or at least mostly correct, after all it is the most logical thing to get from this situation.

    what are they using the money they using the money that they get from advertisements from, well apart from power consumption costs and costs of protection against viruses can't they use the leftover money to invest in better resources, do they even have an actual server in their office or do they just pay a hosting company to run a virtual private server @Andreas and i want all aternos staff to respond to this with their thoughts what's the point of aternos doing this free minecraft server project if they don't invest in resources to making their server capable of running 24/7 servers

    • Official Post

    We run a colocation in a datacenter in frankfurt, germany with over 100 servers.
    Currently we have servers with more than 3 TB of RAM just for running minecraft servers.
    And this is constantly growing.


    Quote from nicholasj

    well apart from power consumption costs and costs of protection against viruses can't they use the leftover money to invest in better resources

    We already do as much as possible.


    24/7 servers are just not doable for free. Running a server with 0 players is wasting resources and from our perspective absolutely unefficient.

    Quote from Roman

    We run a colocation in a datacenter in frankfurt, germany with over 100 servers.
    Currently we have servers with more than 3 TB of RAM just for running minecraft servers.
    And this is constantly growing.


    We already do as much as possible.
    24/7 servers are just not doable for free. Running a server with 0 players is wasting resources and from our perspective absolutely unefficient.

    well is there a possible way of starting the server automatically when someone wants to join so people can connect to your server without contacting you to start the server

    @Andreas is there any way we could start up our server automatically if a player joins e.g your system detects that a player is trying to join a server and it starts the server up and if there isn't a feature like that this could be a suggestion @Andreas

  • Roman

    Closed the thread.