I need help with Minecraft Server?

[Chaos Network]

I am a small YouTuber with a small budget, but I am willing to put some of that budget towards a Minecraft Server for my YouTube channel, what is the cheapest way that I could do this?

[GreezyJeezy]

For 5 player slots you can get a server for $6 a month. It's on mcprohosting I think.

[Chaos Network]

2 minutes ago, GreezyJeezy said:

For 5 player slots you can get a server for $6 a month. It's on mcprohosting I think.

I was thinking more around the 100 player slot range, and I have like 30 plugins that I would like to run...when I say small, I mean we currently have 98 subscribers...

[LewisSpring]

If you dont mind waiting (somtimes a few hours) Server.Pro give free server hosting with 10 free plugins available

[LewisSpring]

You gotta pay big for how big that is.. Server.pro would be good for small 10 player servers but you gotta pay on ANY server hosting site for 100 players trust me.. I have tried 

[GreezyJeezy]

Just now, Chaos Network said:

I was thinking more around the 100 player slot range, and I have like 30 plugins that I would like to run...when I say small, I mean we currently have 98 subscribers...

That's like super small pretty much non existent . I upload like 1 video a month and I have 96 subs. But just look at hosting sites and price the best. You can run your own server but you'll need a 2nd pc to play and record you can't record and play and host on the same pc. Unless you have a super good pc like a 5k one. Just just look at hosting sites

[GreezyJeezy]

It's like $50-$75 a month for a 100 player server.

[509Vince]

If you plan to have more than 10 players at once and you have like 5mbp up your gonna bottleneck your internet speed. Hosting basically guarantees that your internet isn't gonna be bottlenecked when your on the server with others.

[Chaos Network]

4 minutes ago, GreezyJeezy said:

That's like super small pretty much non existent . I upload like 1 video a month and I have 96 subs. But just look at hosting sites and price the best. You can run your own server but you'll need a 2nd pc to play and record you can't record and play and host on the same pc. Unless you have a super good pc like a 5k one. Just just look at hosting sites

I have uploaded daily for the past 6 months, with a few exceptions, and will continue to for quite a long time, the videos range from 2 minutes to 4 hours long...

[GreezyJeezy]

2 minutes ago, Chaos Network said:

I have uploaded daily for the past 6 months, with a few exceptions, and will continue to for quite a long time, the videos range from 2 minutes to 4 hours long...

Most people don't watch videos over 10-20 min like new people people sub might but new people won't so 4 hours that's bad

[GreezyJeezy]

Can you afford $50-$75 a month it's the the only way to buy s host for 100 players. Or build a $400/600 pc and learn how to set up a server and add plugins and all that

[Masa]

Hello,

 

I can recommend Net9. They have cheapest prices in Europe, unlimited player slots and very good support.

 

Link: Net9.fi

Edited April 6, 2016 by Masa
I can't write right : D

[kirashi]

Unless you're experienced in setting up and maintaining the server yourself, I'd second getting MCProHosting's $60 / month plan for what you want.

[RZeroX]

Depending on how much ram you would need I would start with 1GB at $3/GB at https://extravm.com/

[Cruorzy]

I would suggest to start low, since not everyone is going to play probably.

And i have some experience with starting big, for most of the people it wont turn out that good.

 

Make sure you fully understand the plugins you are running and dont just copy paste them in there.

Be as efficient as possible before its to late, and got to do it over again.

Its been a while since i done anything with minecraft but i would say if you setup a plugin and they have to store data like Mcmmo is was called i think.

Always use databases, take the time to learn how to use it if you do not understand.

 

Start with like 20-30 slots.

[Project Reality]

How many Gb's of ram are you looking for in this server i run a small hosing serveries. You would get your own control panel and as many plugins as you would like. if interested email us at  GrandmasAtticYT@gmail.com

[Chaos Network]

1 hour ago, Project Reality said:

How many Gb's of ram are you looking for in this server i run a small hosing serveries. You would get your own control panel and as many plugins as you would like. if interested email us at  GrandmasAtticYT@gmail.com

I emailed you at the given email address

[Jarsky]

If you're wanting to interact with your subscribers, youre probably best to look at streaming as well such asTwitch - as YouTube is really a video upload platform, and subscriber numbers really dont mean anything when it comes to interacting with your userbase - especially if you have less than a few thousand. I have a few hundred subs on YouTube, i'm not a 'YouTuber' and if I tried to get my subs into a live game it would faily miserably - but getting twitch followers, etc...into a game is much better for live interaction. 

 

As for the server, 100 slots is actually very large for Minecraft. One of my friends is a Twitch streamer with 90k followers - 5k YouTube followers, and she would struggle to get more than about 10 players on at any one time.

 

Personally I would start with a server that can support 10-20 slots and plugins, and you can always increase from there if you need too.

[BrightCandle]

If you aren't sure how long you want to run it for or the size then a virtual machine provider may very well be the way to go. AWS and Azure are kind of expensive for big machines but what they give you is the ability to take your drive and put it onto more powerful hardware and give you a wide range of options on how to set it up from CPU, memory and drive speed and space. You could just use AWS to find out what sort of server performance you need and then try and find a virtual machine provider that matches that mix.

 

I personally have used AWS EC2 instances in the past for Arma 3 because the community only played one day a week. I could shut the server down and bring it back up every week and run it for just the 3 hours we were playing. That allowed us to have a faster (3.4Ghz) modern (Haswell Xeon) couple of cores CPU and sufficient RAM to make the server really run well but for a fraction of the cost of 100% of the time monthly hosting. However if you want monthly hosting you'll find AWS to be a bit expensive even with spot pricing discounts and someone else like transip.eu that does virtualised blades will be cheaper but you wont find as much hardware for the money, its normally lower end CPUs which is a problem for minecraft and Arma alike.

[ItsTino]

Don't go for a gaming server hosts, they are often overprices compared to other solutions.

I would recommend going for a dedicated server of off which you can host a minecraft server with whatever you want.

 

For a cheap dedicated server (assuming you are in the EU) I would recommend some cheap datacentres and hosts such as

Kimsufi

OVH

Online.net

 

Though there are many server centres around the world.

 

Your own server will also be cheaper than a pre made host, especially for the size

[john01dav]

I didn't read this entire thread, but, I have made thousands of dollars selling Minecraft plugins and I have run ~5-10 different servers and networks depending on if you care about popularly. I'm terrible at advertising them, but, I do no how to get one setup.

 

Your best bet is to learn Linux and setup your own dedicated server. A dedicated server is basically a computer that you rent in a datacenter (a huge building full of computers) that is hooked up to a very fast Internet connection. I ran a 600 player BungeeCord network (with 20 individual Minecraft servers) on one of these (specifically the KS-4) for about US$20 per month (depending on the exchange rate each time, as it is a european company). Those provide no support in the form of setting up the server (you need to login to Linux remotely and install it yourself) but they are probably the best, and cheapest, way to host a server.

 

If you want to pay more and want an even better server (should be able to handle about 1000-5000 players at the same time in a network (NOT a single server -- see below)) then I recommend ReliableSite. I have never personally used them, but I have heard many good things about them from those who have.

 

Also, if you play a lot of Minecraft multiplayer on other servers, then you probably know what the difference between an individual server and a network is. If not, however, I will attempt to clarify it. Basically, a network is a set of multiple individual Minecraft servers put together. For reasons that are somewhat complicated (basically threading, or lack thereof) a single Minecraft server can only hold about 100 (maybe 200) players maximum before it begins lagging. If you need more servers than that, then you need to use BungeeCord (or a similar piece of software) to link multiple servers together. 

[Chaos Network]

On April 9, 2016 at 7:52 AM, john01dav said:

I didn't read this entire thread, but, I have made thousands of dollars selling Minecraft plugins and I have run ~5-10 different servers and networks depending on if you care about popularly. I'm terrible at advertising them, but, I do no how to get one setup.

 

Your best bet is to learn Linux and setup your own dedicated server. A dedicated server is basically a computer that you rent in a datacenter (a huge building full of computers) that is hooked up to a very fast Internet connection. I ran a 600 player BungeeCord network (with 20 individual Minecraft servers) on one of these (specifically the KS-4) for about US$20 per month (depending on the exchange rate each time, as it is a european company). Those provide no support in the form of setting up the server (you need to login to Linux remotely and install it yourself) but they are probably the best, and cheapest, way to host a server.

 

If you want to pay more and want an even better server (should be able to handle about 1000-5000 players at the same time in a network (NOT a single server -- see below)) then I recommend ReliableSite. I have never personally used them, but I have heard many good things about them from those who have.

 

Also, if you play a lot of Minecraft multiplayer on other servers, then you probably know what the difference between an individual server and a network is. If not, however, I will attempt to clarify it. Basically, a network is a set of multiple individual Minecraft servers put together. For reasons that are somewhat complicated (basically threading, or lack thereof) a single Minecraft server can only hold about 100 (maybe 200) players maximum before it begins lagging. If you need more servers than that, then you need to use BungeeCord (or a similar piece of software) to link multiple servers together. 

This was kinda difficult for me to follow, but I have some experience with physical servers, I helped a friend build one in his basement a few months ago, and I watch LTT, so some knowledge comes from there, but I want to fit about a hundred people on my server at one time, that's my top for now, but I have about 30 plugins, the main portion of the server is going to be survival, we plan on having the spawn of course, a creative portion, a Pvp portion, a store portion, A SKYBLOCK portion, and a survival island portion, we also want to have like a dedicated resource world, but I don't know how to do this...and in my brain I'm picturing that all of things will have their own "world" so to speak...do you know what I'm trying to say? What would I need for this? And about how much a month, in USD, would this cost me?

[Masa]

On 9. huhtikuuta 2016 at 3:43 PM, ItsTino said:

Don't go for a gaming server hosts, they are often overprices compared to other solutions.

I would recommend going for a dedicated server of off which you can host a minecraft server with whatever you want.

 

For a cheap dedicated server (assuming you are in the EU) I would recommend some cheap datacentres and hosts such as

Kimsufi

OVH

Online.net

 

Though there are many server centres around the world.

 

Your own server will also be cheaper than a pre made host, especially for the size

I think 1,29€/mo/512mb is cheap. What do u think?

[john01dav]

4 hours ago, Chaos Network said:

This was kinda difficult for me to follow, but I have some experience with physical servers, I helped a friend build one in his basement a few months ago, and I watch LTT, so some knowledge comes from there, but I want to fit about a hundred people on my server at one time, that's my top for now, but I have about 30 plugins, the main portion of the server is going to be survival, we plan on having the spawn of course, a creative portion, a Pvp portion, a store portion, A SKYBLOCK portion, and a survival island portion, we also want to have like a dedicated resource world, but I don't know how to do this...and in my brain I'm picturing that all of things will have their own "world" so to speak...do you know what I'm trying to say? What would I need for this? And about how much a month, in USD, would this cost me?

The main resource that Minecraft servers need is ram. The general rule is to have 1GB per world + 1GB for every ten players + 1GB per 10-50 plugins. In your case, assuming 100 players, 30 plugins, and 7 worlds, you should have ~18GB allocated to Minecraft (java has command line arguments for this). You can probably get away with a bit less, but 18GB is optimal. Also, make sure that you have enough ram avilable for the OS. I have had Ubuntu Server running on less than 256mb not tied up in Java and there were no issues. As for having multiple worlds, look into this, this, and this if you want to future-proof yourself for have many more players and are okay with doing quite a bit more configuration. For the CPU, just get anything reasonably decent -- it doesn't matter too much unless you are using BungeeCord, having a large number of minigames (like Mineplex does), or using a large number of mods (NOT plugins -- mods add content, use Forge, and need to be installed on the client).

 

Also, you can post Minecraft-server specific questions to spigotmc.org. They have a forum full of server owners and provide an optimized version of the Minecraft server (all of the numbers above are for this version). They also allow you to buy things like logos and custom made plugins.