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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by mort96 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:09PM (#15767805)
I imagine most people interested in hosting their own minecraft server has some old laptop or desktop lying around. It's a very inexpensive hobby to just install linux on them and run a minecraft server there.

If the power bill is a concern, the computer wouldn't even have to be on 24/7; if it's just a server you and friends play on, it would be perfectly acceptable to just boot the computer whenever you want to play together.

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Re:Glowstone: open-source Minecraft server by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:18PM (#15767868)
I looked at using a droplet on DigitalOcean, it worked fine but there's quite a lot to consider in running a server. You can keep an image of the droplet and just boot when required. By that point my kids had moved on to Robocraft, and now Garrys Mod, and so it wasn't worth me maintaining a server for the occasional use it was getting.
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