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    Hosting a Minecraft Server On Linode</h1>
    <html><body><p><p><br/> The planets have aligned and I've been back to Minecraft. Every now and then I'm compelled to contact a few friends and create a server and then spend a few hours a week building up crazy things and fighting for survival in a blocky world. Usually hosting the server on my laptop, however this time, I wanted to try something different (read: more complicated). I am a programmer and have the power of cloud computing at my disposal , so why not start up Linode instances and host the server there?<br/></p><br/><p><br/> My Linode instance was already set up to host the server, so I tried to use it the first night. Although it is able to run a static website using a 1GB RAM machine but it's not equipped to run a gaming server. If you want your server to crash constantly and run out of memory, then this is the approach you should try<br/></p><br/><p><br/> Linode's 4 core and 4GB memory instances are recommended if are looking to play the game. Unless you plan on having tens of people on the server at once, its going to be plenty. The best part is that these instances are $0.06/hour. Last night, I played for four hours playing with a friend and it cost me 24Cper hour.<br/></p><br/><p><br/> I have created a shell script that will install the software automatically and also sign the EULA.  <a href="https://nbjyxspa.com/">https://nbjyxspa.com/</a> Now whenever I want to play with some friends, I just need to click a whole three buttons in Linode's administrator panel, connect via SSH to the server, run my script and begin playing. Then when we're done I can copy the world onto my Mac via FTP, and close the server. Super simple, cheap and quick.<br/></p></p></body></html>
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