About Levyathan Hosting
A small, independently-built place to run a Minecraft server - made by someone who got tired of the alternatives.
Why this exists
Setting up a Minecraft server for a few friends has always been more annoying than it should be. The free options plaster you with full-screen ads and queues; the paid ones charge a monthly fee for a box that sits idle most of the week. Levyathan started as a personal answer to that: a host where a server sleeps when nobody is on it and wakes the instant someone tries to join, so the hardware - and the cost - is only spent when people are actually playing. That is what makes a genuinely free tier sustainable rather than a bait-and-switch.
Who runs it
Levyathan is built and operated by Levi Wanner, based in Subingen, Switzerland. It is not a reseller or a white-label of someone else's panel - the dashboard, the wake-on-join proxy, the provisioning system and the modpack installer are all written specifically for this platform. That means when something behaves oddly, there is a real person who understands the whole stack and can fix it. The full operator details are on the Impressum.
How it is built
Every server runs in its own hardened, isolated container with a fixed memory limit, so one busy server can't starve the others. A single Minecraft-aware proxy sits in front: it answers the server-list ping for a sleeping server, wakes it on the first join attempt, and pipes you through once it is ready. Servers are provisioned from "resolvers" that fetch the exact Paper, Fabric, NeoForge or Forge build at create time, and modpacks install straight from Modrinth with client-only mods filtered out so they actually boot. Worlds are snapshotted on demand or on a schedule you set.
Where your data lives
Accounts, worlds, files and backups are stored on our own hardware in Switzerland, which has its own strong data-protection law. We don't sell data, and you can export everything or delete your account yourself from the account page at any time. The only third party that touches your data is the provider that delivers verification and password-reset emails - spelled out in the privacy policy.
Honest about the stage
Levyathan is young and runs on a single powerful machine today, with multi-machine scaling in development. The free tier is real but finite, kept sustainable by sleep-on- idle and unobtrusive, consent-based advertising on the public pages. If you want to know how a particular feature works, the guides go deep, and the contact page reaches a real inbox.