[6][better source needed] The Hypixel server was released in beta on April 13, 2013, by Simon Collins-Laflamme, and Philippe Touchette.

The server is managed and run by Hypixel Inc.[4][7][8] The two originally created Minecraft adventure maps together[5] and uploaded trailers to their YouTube channel.

[9] Players of the server community banded together to write over 400,000 messages of condolences for the late content creator Technoblade, who passed away in the summer of 2022.

[21] Around April 2018, Hypixel began to use Cloudflare Spectrum as a DDoS protection after being the victim of multiple attacks hosted by Mirai, a malware, against the server.

Connection problems were reported by players before the server was shut down, and the Hypixel team had claimed to have "identified the issue with an upstream provider".

In its statement, the Hypixel team re-iterated that they had "dealt with DDoS attacks for well over 8 years", and that "recent changes at [their] host caused a flaw in [their] setup".