Minecraft Server Hosting

Minecraft is a wonderful multi-player on-line sand box video game which several communities have emerged around, It's awesome to seed your individual world. When you get used to harvesting materials and building tools and a crafting table to construct your own personal world its awesome.

There arrives a time when your lonesome little world contains a group of creepers and skeletons and only you if your in single player mode, that usually means its time for you to make some buddies and begin spreading your mining/building ability in the entire world.

This is where you need to weigh your options up, unless you want be digging the ground and fighting of the hordes off mobs, all on your own in the dark!

So what do you do?

Firstly, you could create your own Minecraft server on the computer your playing Minecraft on, but unless you have all your friends living in the same house as you, this isn't gonna cut it, so you can open the server up to the internet so that your Minecraft pals can join, but then as the player numbers increase, your internet bandwidth is all but gone and your computer is running like an old dog, your worried about the server dying and your Minecraft server hosting days being over, will you ever get to enjoy playing again!

So go out into the world wide web of Minecraft and find a nice community to join, there comes a day when your thriving little community decides to venture into the world of Minecraft server hosting, maybe you will rent or share a server together and reserve a slot for you and your Minecraft friends or you could rent a dedicated server and create your own community if your feeling ambitious and passionate about Minecraft.

So on this website we can show you how to achieve any one of these goals and leave it up to you to decide. I will be updating this guide as necessary, because the world of Minecraft is changing fast and their are new developments everyday, so I want you to stay informed, and give you the opputinity to make the best choice when it comes to Minecraft server hosting.

You can also read our introduction to minecraft server hosting.

Minecraft - Hosting a Server

While in house minecraft server hosting is basically free hosting, it requires an immense investment in hardware to have decent performance,as well as the use of all your Internet bandwidth and constant maintenance.

Take the effort out of operating and maintaing your own Minecraft server hosting, decide how you need it setup, you also should not have to worry about speed, hardware, and bandwidth leaving you free to your focus on having fun, and less on the troubles of complex Minecraft server hosting management.

Whats a Server in the Minecraft universe?

A server in minecraft can be one of many types of servers. The main ones available I have listed them on this site and the list does not really take into account the huge modding scene that has grown out of Minecraft. The servers themselves are nothing more than powerfull computers soley focussed on the task of running the Minecraft server application, this makes them able to handle large volumes of players, this coupled with many fast internet connections makes for a good choice and reliable gaming.

Types of Minecraft servers

A list of all the different types of Minecraft servers, there are alot of different type depending on how the server owner choose to set thier server up, we list them all.

How to make a minecraft Server?

Here we are going to show you how to make a minecraft server.

We show you how to make a minecraft server on Windows Mac and Linux along with a short video, and give you the best guidlines to help it run smoothly. What hardware to use and problems you might face with your network.

Where can I get dedicated hosting for Minecraft Servers?

We are also going to give you a Minecraft server list of Top 10 companys that provide Minecraft server hosting as well as the Mincraft server IP's, with a comparison of all the features and prices.

Minecraft server list

Here is a minecraft server list, 25,000 servers, plus a server list of hosting companys the available features and the price of each, pluse a private server list of 25,000 servers.

 

Server Management - minecraft Bukkit

There are various different API's available for managing all the different aspects of a minecraft server, one of the most simple to setup and use is CraftBukkit, in this guid we descride what minecraft bukkit is, exactly how it can benefit you and how to get it installed on your server.