Minecraft Server on NAS for 3 or 4 people?

[PodgePapin]

Hi, I have a Terramaster F2-422 NAS and wondered whether I could run a small Minecraft server for 3 or 4 people.

 

I have added more RAM to it so it now has 8gb instead of 4gb.

 

Any help gratefully received, TIA, Paul.

[CyberneticTitan]

Should be possible, in fact some community members have built their own TerraMaster specific app packages for this: https://forum.terra-master.com/en/viewtopic.php?t=2450

[manikyath]

dont expect big things or modded minecraft, but it should work.

[PodgePapin]

Hey, thanks. I'll look into this.

 

I don't expect anything big, I just want to see if I could create one for me and a couple of mates to use now and again.

[Needfuldoer]

Bear in mind you'll have to do some port forwarding if you want them to be able to access it from outside your network.

 

If you don't want to rent a server, a pretty substantial one will fit in Oracle Cloud's free tier:

 

https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-run-a-really-powerful-free-minecraft-server-in-the-cloud

[manikyath]

6 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

Bear in mind you'll have to do some port forwarding if you want them to be able to access it from outside your network.

 

If you don't want to rent a server, a pretty substantial one will fit in Oracle Cloud's free tier:

 

https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-run-a-really-powerful-free-minecraft-server-in-the-cloud

that's only for ARM though, and minecraft/java really dont like performing well on ARM.

[Needfuldoer]

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

that's only for ARM though, and minecraft/java really dont like performing well on ARM.

Well enough for a handful of players, and probably equal or better than the performance they'll get from the resources their Terramaster NAS's Celeron J3455 and home Internet upload bandwidth can spare.

[manikyath]

5 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

Well enough for a handful of players, and probably equal or better than the performance they'll get from the resources their Terramaster NAS's Celeron J3455 and home Internet upload bandwidth can spare.

for a small amount of people you really dont need to worry about bandwidth, and i'd rather have my own celeron J3455 than some shared cloud node where my free box is piled on nodes with other free boxes.