A Minecraft server for you and your friends, in three steps.

Pick the software and version, pick a size, name it. The address stays until you rename it.

Any software, any version.

Just the game.
Vanilla at any version from 1.12.2. Friends join with the game they already have.
With plugins.
Paper and Purpur run the same game faster. Find and install plugins on your server's page. Friends don't install anything.
With mods.
Fabric, Forge, or NeoForge at the version you need. Find mods on your server's page, and everyone installs the same ones to join.

You create the server and share its address. Your friends join from Minecraft and need no account here.

Just you by the fire, for now.

An address of your own
Pick a name and friends join with it. Rename it later and the old one keeps working for a week.
Every setting, as a form
Difficulty, game mode, view distance, and the rest of server.properties, each with a line on what it does.
See who's on
Heads and names on the page, and a menu to kick or ban someone.
The console and the files
Watch the server's log and run commands. Upload files and edit text files on the page.
Backups you can download
A backup a day, kept for a week, plus any you take yourself. Download one or restore it whenever you like.

Pay for the size you pick, from $5 a month. Delete a server and its charge stops that day.

Friends
$9a month
4 GB, 2 cores. Up to 10 players.
About Friends
Party
$16a month
8 GB, 3 cores. Up to 20 players.
About Party
Build your own
$5a month and up
Pick the memory and the cores yourself, and change them any time.
See the prices

Your server installs when you create it and borrows extra cores while it boots. Its page shows how it's going.

Create an account, pick a size, and share an address within a few minutes.