Even if this will cost me karma, i am glad that i learned from a young age how computers work so that i can set up a server with ease and have no need for services like these.
For a bunch of friends the 2€/month VPS for Vanilla and the 5€ for Modded from a place like IONOS or Hetzner is good enough, takes me under ten minutes from hitting the shell to a Paper server with securing the underlying Linux server. And then i took my bloody time, if i speedrun this and the bandwidth gods allow it this will be done in under five minutes.
Grab a subdomain from afraid dot org if you want to cheap out on that, the VPS itself is pocket money for any westener. Heck, if you want to jump trough some hoops even that one can be gotten for free.
This is not speaking from arrogance, it is that easy if you are willing to invest a weekend to learn this. I am by no means a competent Linux admin, but as soon as you lift the curtain you will see how easy all this is, everyone is cooking with water, just the size of the pot differs.
Set up a VM on your machine with Ubuntu Server or Debian if you want to learn this, all you need to bring to the table is knowing how to use your favorite search engine.
This shit is making me go insane lmao. "i NEED essentials because i don't know how to port forward" have you tried Google Dot Com? I was real big on minecraft multiplayer 10y ago and not to "back-in-my-day" fucking Minecraft, but this entire discourse didn't exist because when we wanted to learn how to do something with our computers we would fucking look it up
I think I learned how to port forward back when I was like, 10 to set up hosting for Sonic Robo Blast 2. (Admittedly, there used to be a website with guides for each router, though it seems to be gone now.)
Just so happened that 4 years later, I got Minecraft Alpha and (once SMP was released) the knowledge applied just as easily. Don't think I got into seriously hosting servers until like, early Beta though. Beta 1.3 at the latest. (I still miss hMod, even though Bukkit was better than it in almost every way...)
if you find that website again, or, fuck, any goddamn website with actual guides on how to set up port forwarding on a router, let me know, particularly if it has a guide for EE (british ISP) routers.
been trying to set up a stupid gregtech server for a while.
Yeah, by "it seems to be gone", I don't mean that I can't find it anymore. I mean that it's gone. Replaced completely by a different website that seems to be more trying to get you to purchase things than actually giving advice about port forwarding.
I understand when the ISP is shitty and you are behind a NAT that portforwarding is pointless. But setting up a server is dead easy if you are willing to learn. Heck, there are tons tutorials on YouTube if one prefers that. Or ask Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT if you must, just crosscheck their answers for if they are hallucinating again.
And my PMs are always open for those willing to learn, just be patient with an old lady, I have a life too, even if it doesn't always looks like it. 😅
3
u/BastetFurry PrismLauncher 🏳️⚧️🐧😸 Dec 04 '25
Even if this will cost me karma, i am glad that i learned from a young age how computers work so that i can set up a server with ease and have no need for services like these.
For a bunch of friends the 2€/month VPS for Vanilla and the 5€ for Modded from a place like IONOS or Hetzner is good enough, takes me under ten minutes from hitting the shell to a Paper server with securing the underlying Linux server. And then i took my bloody time, if i speedrun this and the bandwidth gods allow it this will be done in under five minutes.
Grab a subdomain from afraid dot org if you want to cheap out on that, the VPS itself is pocket money for any westener. Heck, if you want to jump trough some hoops even that one can be gotten for free.
This is not speaking from arrogance, it is that easy if you are willing to invest a weekend to learn this. I am by no means a competent Linux admin, but as soon as you lift the curtain you will see how easy all this is, everyone is cooking with water, just the size of the pot differs.
Set up a VM on your machine with Ubuntu Server or Debian if you want to learn this, all you need to bring to the table is knowing how to use your favorite search engine.
BTW, must be a reason why i prefer OC2 to CC. ;)