NeoForge Minecraft Server Hosting

NeoForge is a community-driven fork of Minecraft Forge, launched in 2023 by the former core team of Forge developers. It was created to address long-standing architectural and governance concerns within the Forge project, and it has quickly become the primary modding platform for Minecraft 1.20.2 and later versions.

NeoForge maintains a very high degree of compatibility with Forge mods — many major Forge mods have already released NeoForge builds, and the porting effort is typically small for most mods. The NeoForge team has moved aggressively to modernize the internal toolchain, adopting up-to-date dependency injection patterns, improved event handling, and cleaner APIs that make mod development more productive.

For players and server owners, the practical difference between Forge and NeoForge on recent Minecraft versions is mod availability. An increasing share of new and updated mods target NeoForge first, particularly in the 1.20.4+ and 1.21+ ecosystem. If you are building a server on the latest Minecraft version and want access to the widest selection of actively maintained mods, NeoForge is the forward-looking choice.

From a resource perspective, NeoForge servers have similar RAM requirements to Forge servers — 4 GB is a comfortable starting point for a lightly modded server, and large modpacks may need 8–12 GB. Alpenglow's credit-based billing makes modded server hosting economical even for RAM-heavy setups: you only accumulate credits while players are online, and the auto-hibernate feature shuts the server down automatically when the last player disconnects.