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Hello,
I host a private modded server for friends and family. There are a maximum of 4-5 players online at a time, but the server is often empty with occasional busy stretches. I am currently using Godlike (8GB RAM, "300% CPU" whatever that equates to). The performance is sub optimal. The main town area has a bunch of large redstone machines and farms. There are lag spikes when everyone is active or when someone flies with elytra generating new chunks. I've also been paying $31.99/mo for almost a year and their UI is really annoying.
Has anyone here hosted/is hosting via AWS? EC2 m7a.large or m5zn.large (maybe even t4g.large) looks more than capable for my use case, but it's also way more expensive on paper ($50-120/mo if running 24/7).
But I thought of something, and I want to know if anyone here has experience with this. I'm thinking of shutting off the server after some time of inactivity and always keeping an EC2 t4g.nano active in the background ($3.40/month). The nano instance would listen for any pings on port 25565, and when a player opens their multiplayer menu or tries connecting to the server, it would boot up the main instance and change the text to something like "Server is booting up... Please wait". It would take 30-60 seconds on the initial connection, but would also reduce the cost significantly. 4hrs a day would come out to ~$14-20/month including storage. If no one logs on, my cost would be less than $5/mo.
Would this work? Anyone already doing this or have a script they could share? Thanks in advance.
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I host a private modded server for friends and family. There are a maximum of 4-5 players online at a time, but the server is often empty with occasional busy stretches. I am currently using Godlike (8GB RAM, "300% CPU" whatever that equates to). The performance is sub optimal. The main town area has a bunch of large redstone machines and farms. There are lag spikes when everyone is active or when someone flies with elytra generating new chunks. I've also been paying $31.99/mo for almost a year and their UI is really annoying.
Has anyone here hosted/is hosting via AWS? EC2 m7a.large or m5zn.large (maybe even t4g.large) looks more than capable for my use case, but it's also way more expensive on paper ($50-120/mo if running 24/7).
But I thought of something, and I want to know if anyone here has experience with this. I'm thinking of shutting off the server after some time of inactivity and always keeping an EC2 t4g.nano active in the background ($3.40/month). The nano instance would listen for any pings on port 25565, and when a player opens their multiplayer menu or tries connecting to the server, it would boot up the main instance and change the text to something like "Server is booting up... Please wait". It would take 30-60 seconds on the initial connection, but would also reduce the cost significantly. 4hrs a day would come out to ~$14-20/month including storage. If no one logs on, my cost would be less than $5/mo.
Would this work? Anyone already doing this or have a script they could share? Thanks in advance.
submitted by /u/HikioFortyTwo
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Continue reading...