Getting Started

Well, that’s not very hard. Just use a hosting solution like Shockbyte, HostGator, or one of the countless other platforms out there.

Oh, you don’t want to pay for that? You want to do it yourself, huh? Well, alright, that's cool too. If you want to start simple, you could find or buy an old computer, flash it with Linux, install Java, grab the server binary (bytecode-ary?) from Minecraft’s website, and—boom—you’ve got a server.

Of course, unless you've done that before (or have experience with something similar), that probably sounded like complete gibberish. Well, good for you, gibberish is a language you can learn! Though, now that I think about it, learning gibberish would preclude it from being gibberish, making it unlearnable. But hey, I digress.

 

The goal of this project is to get you from little to no Minecraft server knowledge to a full-blown Minecraft hosting wizard. Will this guide be able to accomplish that I don't know, but it'll try. Below is a rough progression timeline: