
Minecraft Server Census
Personal project
Minecraft Server Census pinged thousands of public Minecraft Java Edition servers every 10 minutes and showed how many people were playing, where, and on which servers. It detected hostnames that point to the same server so each one was counted once, and ran as a single Node.js process with SQLite on a small VM. The public instance was shut down in November 2026; the code is open source and the collected data is available for download.







