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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 serv

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 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/ https://gamocosm.com/ Meaning it would take 8 years before it cost as much as a Mineserver box.

stcredzero 11y ago
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?
- sov 11y ago
  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.
  - j_mcnally 11y ago
    Home internet should crush those ping times right, because thats how ISP optimize.
newobj 11y ago
Great timing, thank you! I was just in the midst of preparing to set up a Minecraft server for my son and his buddies.
unethical_ban 11y ago
$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.
- nkrisc 11y ago
  > 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.
JoblessWonder 11y ago
I've never heard of Gamocosm before but it looks very interesting...

stcredzero 11y ago

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?

sov 11y ago
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.
- j_mcnally 11y ago
  Home internet should crush those ping times right, because thats how ISP optimize.

newobj 11y ago

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

unethical_ban 11y ago

$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.

nkrisc 11y ago
> 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.

JoblessWonder 11y ago

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