I was looking at VPS providers in China and found that Tencent Cloud gives the option to rent a server WAY cheaper than usual with the condition that they can take it away (deactivate it) if they need the resources you are occupying.

I thought that it could be used for a fairly decent and cheap Minecraft server, so here I am.

⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️

When joining the server your public IP will appear on the server’s console (visible to me)! If you are not comfortable with that, don’t worry, it’s understandable.


Note:

Type ‘/register [PASSWORD]’ to register when in-game. Don’t use a password you also use somewhere else, I’m unsure how safe the plugin is.

IP: 43.131.32.28

It’s Vanilla 1.19.4

Of course, online-mode is off! 🏴‍☠️

I installed some quality of life plugins:

  • NexAuth: A login plugin, so people don’t just enter the server with your username and empty your inventory into lava.
  • ImageMap: Just type /im [image url from the internet] and you will receive a map with the image on it. Put it on an item frame!

Server info:

  • Location is Frankfurt.
  • Provider is Tencent Cloud.
  • 2 Cores 4 GB Ram.
    • Al-AndalusianOP
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      1010 months ago

      pic:amazed person

      (Jokes aside with the specs of the server I think it should be fine to throw some mods at it… 🤔)

  • cucumovirus
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    810 months ago

    I played a bit today with @Jonathan12345 and moved into one of the free apartments. It was fun playing Minecraft again after a few years and I’ll probably be playing more in the upcoming days as well.

  • @nemesis
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    810 months ago

    I haven’t played Minecraft since uhhhhh they added horses but if everyone doesn’t mind being patient with someone who hasn’t played in almost exactly a decade I might try it out later

  • commiespammer
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    810 months ago

    For me it says string to big, 24 characters. How do I fix this?

  • INACTIVE ACCOUNT
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    710 months ago

    I don’t play minecraft, but this is still pretty cool. Good work my friend.

    • Al-AndalusianOP
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      910 months ago

      According to my calculations, around 7.50$ a month, which afaik is pretty good for the specs.

      • @jorran
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        110 months ago

        I’m pretty sure you can get a free server from oracle with like 20gb ram

  • The Free Penguin
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    610 months ago

    what if you make a bot to reactivate it every time they deactivate it

    • Al-AndalusianOP
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      410 months ago

      Good idea! Though I don’t know how to do that 😔

    • Al-AndalusianOP
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      110 months ago

      The VPS is a ‘Spot’ instance provided by Tencent Cloud. You can select the ‘Spot instances’ option on the instance creation screen.

      Not sure if that’s what you were asking for 😅

      • @MoonRaven@feddit.nl
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        210 months ago

        Yup, that was the question. Interesting, I wonder if minecraft can handle the shutdown properly if it gets released.

  • Bloops
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    210 months ago

    Why does the server change our skins? Can we use our own?

    • Al-AndalusianOP
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      310 months ago

      That’s because it has online mode off, which is necessary for letting people without paid Minecraft play in the server.

      • Bloops
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        10 months ago

        Ohh I see. I’ll have to modify my resource pack then.

  • @Commiejones
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    16 months ago

    I’m gonna come hang out is this info still the same?