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Starmine, Minecraft server hosting

Players first,
hosts since 2012

An independent host, with its machines in France, its own tools and support in French.

Portrait, arms crossed in an aisle of server racks

We installed our first machine in 2012. One game, a website with a forum, a directory and ready-to-play servers. We have been writing the admin panel since that day, and we never bought it. More than 300,000 customers since.

We have been playing online since the 1990s. From LAN nights to MMOs, from competitive shooters to real-time strategy. The first servers we set up ran for our friends. We know what a slow server does to a Saturday night game. The trade came later, by demand.

We started with Minecraft, and nothing else. Then our customers stopped sticking to a single title. A Thursday on Valheim, a Friday on Rust, back to Minecraft on Sunday. Today we host many more, and we add one every time a game settles in for the long run. We set up an ARK server the way we set up a Minecraft server in 2012.

Measured availability on our machines is 99.99 %. That figure does not come from a promise. It comes from 14 years of fixes, from one hardware generation to the next.

2012

First machine

14

Years of operations

300 000+

Customers since 2012

99,99%

Uptime

One machine, then a room

Our blades are installed in a room of the Iliad group, in the Paris region.

Our machine generations

We build our servers ourselves. We change generation when the gain shows in game.

2012

Intel Xeon E3-1270 v2

The first rented machine, and our customers' first Minecraft servers.

2014

Intel Xeon E5-1650

Six cores, so more servers per machine.

2020

AMD Ryzen 3900X

The move to AMD, and twelve cores per machine.

2021

AMD Ryzen 5900X

A higher frequency, which is what Minecraft asks for above all else.

2023

AMD Ryzen 7900

Twelve cores, and the arrival of NVMe Gen4 storage.

2025

AMD Ryzen 9950X

Sixteen cores, the generation we are deploying today.

Three generations of the site

The same trade, started over three times. The machines changed, so did the plans; the panel has always been our own.

The Starmine site in its early days: forum, directory and preinstalled servers
The early daysThe forum, the directory and the ready-to-play servers
The Starmine redesign: four plans on AMD Ryzen 9 and NVMe Gen4
The redesignFour plans, Ryzen 9 and NVMe Gen4
Starmine today: eight plans, an in-house panel and a multi-game catalog
TodayEight plans, an in-house panel and multi-game

What we used to play

The games from before the company. They taught us what a game session expects from the network.

  • 1995Command & Conquer
  • 1996Diablo
  • 1998Half-Life
  • 1998StarCraft
  • 1999Counter-Strike
  • 2001Dark Age of Camelot
  • 2002Warcraft III
  • 2003Star Wars Galaxies
  • 2004World of Warcraft
  • 2011Minecraft

Three things that have not moved

You know what is running

We announce the processor, the disk type and the location: Ryzen 9, NVMe Gen4, a room of the Iliad group in the Paris region.

Your worlds belong to you

Full FTP access and backups downloadable at any time. The day you leave, your world leaves with you, configuration files included.

Support is us

Support is in French. On every ticket, a member of the team reads you and answers, with no chat bot between them and you.

Get a server,
invite your friends

Eight plans, whatever the game, and anti-DDoS included in each one.