Economical Minecraft server

A safe Minecraft server that won't break the bank. Game data is preserved across sessions. Server is hosted on a permenant IP address. You need to start the VM each session, but it will shutdown within 24 hours if you forget to turn it off. Process is run in a sandboxed VM, so any server exploits cannot do any serious damage.

We are experimenting with providing support through a google doc.

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Launch blog can be found here

Features

Runs itzg/minecraft-server Docker image
Preemtible VM (cheapest), shuts down automatically within 24h if you forget to stop the VM
Reserves a stable public IP, so the minecraft clients do not need to be reconfigured
Reserves the disk, so game data is remembered across sessions
Restricted service account, VM has no ability to consume GCP resources beyond its instance and disk
2$ per month
- Reserved IP address costs: $1.46 per month
- Reserved 10Gb disk costs: $0.40
- VM cost: $0.01 per hour, max session cost $0.24