$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details

Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by edtechdev on Friday March 18, 2016 @03:43PM (#11314355)

Between the port forwarding and security and other kinds of hassles of running a server in your own house, I just used digitalocean hosting for a minecraft server for my kid a few years ago, $5 a month. Here's a script to install the Cuberite version mentioned in the article: https://github.com/cuberite/cuberite-ocean

Now there are free services like Gamocosm which shut down your digitalocean server when not using it, so that it might only cost $1 or so a month: https://gamocosm.com/ Meaning it would take 8 years before it cost as much as a Mineserver box.

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Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by stcredzero on Friday March 18, 2016 @04:19PM (#11314600)

I just used digitalocean hosting for a minecraft server for my kid a few years ago, $5 a month.

What are your ping times like?

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Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by sov on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:39PM (#11316192)

Also curious, as I ran a $10 droplet to host a Terraria server and the ping-times were >200ms from Vancouver, BC to San Fran. Was basically unplayable, with usage spiking out. Now, it was simultaneously hosting Mumble and an (effectively blank) node site, but still.

For what it's worth, I also hosted a Starbound server, and so long as people weren't doing anything crazy and the population never exceeded ~4-5, things were fine.

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Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by j_mcnally on Saturday March 19, 2016 @09:32PM (#11321365)

Home internet should crush those ping times right, because thats how ISP optimize.

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Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by newobj on Friday March 18, 2016 @04:47PM (#11314857)

Great timing, thank you! I was just in the midst of preparing to set up a Minecraft server for my son and his buddies.

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Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by unethical_ban on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:10PM (#11315074)

$5 plan on DO for Minecraft? That Cuberite software better be awesome, because I ended up buying an 8 core 16GB RAM HP rack server just to run a heavy-modded Forge server.

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Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by nkrisc on Friday March 18, 2016 @05:45PM (#11315396)

> heavy-modded Forge server

That's probably the problem. I've run a vanilla Minecraft server on a DO droplet just fine for a handful of people.

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Re:$99 Mineserver: The Devil Is in the Details by JoblessWonder on Friday March 18, 2016 @07:35PM (#11316172)

I've never heard of Gamocosm before but it looks very interesting...

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