Best place to host a minecraft server?

Hey lainanons, Where's the best place to host a modded minecraft server nowadays? I've hosted on a self-managed VPS in the past, but the server is old and toasted, and I'm expecting a lot more players this time around (up to 24). I'd like to say money is no object, but hosting gets expensive and I'm not going to be collecting donations for hosting costs. Apex looks like scam pricing, and I don't mind managing things myself, so if there's a trustworthy VPS provider you can recommend that will lease dedicated resources instead of just vCPUs, that might be ideal. I have half a mind to colocate, but last time I checked, that's still stupid expensive. I do get symmetrical gigabit at home, but I'm inexperienced with that level of home networking.

Hardest part in setting up a server on your home network would be port forwarding, its not too bad. Minecraft takes up so little bandwidth its honestly not worth paying for a server if you've got the hardware and connection for it. I'm running an Endeavor server on an old ass Thinkpad T430. I've only had around 10 players at most but it performs perfectly fine.

>>75497 I want to use a custom url and the standard 25565 port. Is it possible to achieve this with port forwarding? Last time I looked into this, it looked like I would have to resort to dynamic DNS, and that looked like a mess.

>>75498 I use these guys cause im a cheap nigger. Its not at all a mess, you'll just have to update your IP every now and then should it end up changing. https://www.duckdns.org/

>>75493 An old PC at home is what I use. It runs debian, and I just run the server in a tmux instance. As far as I know, Minecraft's network stuff is pretty secure, so as long as you only open 25565 to that specific PC, you have nothing to worry about.

get a vps and don't do it on your home network unless it's just for like your discord buddies

>>75558 Nothing wrong with running a minecraft server on your home network. If you're paranoid about security you can just run the server in a container of VM.

>>75558 >>75565 it is probably a good idea to separate the server into its own vlan so it can't access your other devices. using containers is probably not needed, just run it as a very unprivileged user.

bisecthosting seemed pretty good based on the time i used it. no idea if it's considered to be well priced, considering that i hadn't done anything related to minecraft servers previously but

>>75749 excuse the "but". i was writing this out on a phone and made a mistake

I would say host from home with what you've got, even a mediocre laptop laying around. I'd say ditch having your own URL, but if you must insist you may be able to give your router a static IP.

It's pretty easy to install a spigot (very modifiable version of minecraft server) server locally, drop in a few mods like worldedit, etc, and test it out on you local lan or even just from the same machine it's installed on. If everything is ok you can open it up to your local lan, expose it to the internet, or upload it to a vps with shell acces and let it run from there. I used nfoservers for a few years to do that and they were pretty ok. If you really want to run the server from home, you can use something like pagekite to keep your ip address from being publicly exposed. https://pagekite.net/