When choosing your server, be sure that it has (at a minimum) 1GB of RAM, preferably at least 2GB. Ubuntu Linux is recommended.
The first thing you need to do is to connect to your server through SSH. If you are on a mac, you can open up Terminal, or if you are on a PC, you can connect with PuTTY.
We recommend that you can access your servers where ever you want via siterobot.io Terminal.
Before going further, we should run a quick update on apt-get, the program through which we will download all of the server requirements.
sudo apt-get update
After that, we need to be sure that Java is installed on our server. Download java through apt-get:
sudo apt-get install default-jdk
You also need to supply your server with Screen which will keep your server running if you drop the connection:
sudo apt-get install screen
Start off by creating a new directory where you will store the Minecraft files:
mkdir minecraft
Once the directory is created, switch into it:
cd minecraft
Within that directory, download the Minecraft server software:
wget -O minecraft_server.jar https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.8.8/minecraft_server.1.8.8.jar
Install minecraft (Agreeing EULA policy):
java -jar minecraft_server.jar && echo "eula=true" > eula.txt
Run Minecraft Server with command shown in below (It tooks up to 30 sec):
screen -dmS minecraft java -Xms450M -Xmx450M -jar ~/minecraft/minecraft_server.jar nogui
Performance note: If your server has more than 2 GB ram, you can incrase the memory amount you give to minecraft. To make this, run your minecraft server as the following code. Eg: If you want to give 1 GB ram, you should write 1024M:
screen -dmS minecraft java -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -jar ~/minecraft/minecraft_server.jar nogui
Your Minecraft server is now all set up!
To stop Minecraft Server:
screen -S minecraft -X quit
You can change the settings of your server by opening up the server properties file:
nano ~/minecraft/server.properties
To connect your Minecraft Server, you should get your Public IP:
Info: Minecraft port: 25565
