The pricing is like for like with an Ubuntu server. (I still need to set up cron to shut down automatically in case I forget). Certainly cheaper than buying a server of similar power. It works out about 10p an hour for a 2 core instance with 7GB of RAM. I thought that Azure was cheaper but looking the the AWS pricing I think the server costs are about the same. It’s a lot more demanding than a standard Minecraft server the batch file starts it with 3Gb of RAM rather than the 1Gb I normally start a server with.
I’ve got a reasonable server set up with AWS but was hoping to get an Attack of the B-Team server running as some friends had been interested in the Galacticraft plugin and it seemed the easiest way to get that running. I’m equally a sucker for trying something new so come the evening I signed in to Azure and gave it a go.
#Aws minecraft server for free
I’m a sucker for free stuff so I downloaded it the phone and started reading while I was waiting for BHS to cook the office bacon oreder yesterday. Then Microsoft had a content marketing win by offering a free ebook on Azure. Scalability – yup I know that as the first server wasn’t up to Minecraft and Mumble. And it was fun talking seriously about cloud services with Amazon at a trade show using my Minecraft experiences. That doesn’t entirely work out because the basic (free) servers aren’t really up for running Minecraft but it was a start. I started out with Amazon AWS because, well I can’t really remember now, but it was probably the prospect of a year’s free usage.
I didn’t want to put any of my computers on the web or, if I’m honest, open any ports on my router, so Cloud computing was the way to go. Having run Minecraft servers at home so my daughter and I can play together, the inevitable question of “Can I play with my friends” was voiced.
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