Apex Hosting: Minecraft Server Hosting

Unknown Host Minecraft Error: How to Fix It on Your Server

Your friend pastes your server address, hits Join, and gets “Failed to connect to the server” with “Unknown host” underneath. Your server is probably fine. The unknown host Minecraft error means the game couldn’t turn the name into an IP address. It never reached you...

How to Fix Minecraft Connection Refused Server Error

Overview Hosting a Minecraft server allows players to join at any given time, unless there are problems preventing connections. These issues can range widely from networking errors to the server being offline. In this scenario...

How to Fix a Ticking Entity Crash in Minecraft

A Ticking Entity crash will be caused when some form of data, typically a mob or block, in the world becomes corrupted. This will usually be displayed in a crash report as follows: java.lang.nullpointerexception: ticking entity The corruption that can happen in relation to ticking entities...

Mod & Plugin Troubleshooting Guide

While hosting your own Minecraft server with mods or plugins, you might run into some occasional issues. These include crashes, errors, invalid commands, database problems, and more. Due to all these, we’ve created this Apex Hosting guide to help yo...

Minecraft Internal Exception Error

You click Join Server and get hit with “Internal Exception: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException” instead of loading in. The error message is cryptic, but the causes are not. This guide explains what triggers the internal exception error in Minecraft, walks through each fix in orde...

How to Fix the “Server Connection Timed Out” Error in Minecraft

The “Server Connection Timed Out” error is one of the most common reasons players can’t join a Minecraft server. It appears when your client attempts to connect but receives no response within the allowed time window. This can happen on both <a href="https://apexminecrafthosting...

Minecraft Exception in Server Tick Loop

Your Minecraft server crashes, a...

How to Fix the Outdated Server Error in Minecraft

You try to join a server and immediately get kicked with an “Outdated Server” message. This happens when your Minecraft client version does not match the server’s version. If the server runs 1.20.1 and your launcher is on 1.21, the connection fails. Every player must use the exa...

How to Fix Minecraft ‘Server Sent Broken Packet’ on Bedrock

While trying to join your Minecraft Bedrock Edition Server, your connection might be refused. There are tons of reasons why, but one of them is called ‘server sent broken packet’. This might impact only you or everyone joining the server. The exact causes can be simple or complicated, so we’ve cr...

How To Fix The ‘getsockopt’ Minecraft Error

Getting home from school or work to play on your Minecraft server is a great way to relax, especially with friends. Unfortunately, connection problems can arise and prevent you from playing. A common issue that many users encounter is the ‘Connection timed out: getsockopt’ error. There are many r...