What's the best way to set up a private Minecraft server for 3 to 5 people?
@stolas Password protect it. That's all me and my small group ever did and it seemed to work.
@stolas And we just personally ran the server jar on a cheapo cloud server box like DigitalOcean.
@stolas If you can get an AWS free trial, a t2.micro will (barely) run a server that big free for a year. (I definitely didn't learn that while load-testing at work...)
@stolas Not that I’ve used it, but Vultr has a one-click Minecraft deployer:
https://www.vultr.com/apps/minecraft
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@Dustin Just wanted to say thanks for this advice, I've just gone and set it up and it was totally painless to do. 😀