So in my last blog post, I mentioned hosting Minecraft servers on a "computer that's on sometimes". Today, I also mentioned that I hadn't done it for a while and would make a blog post on it whenever I next did it. A week has passed from then and in that period, I have been required to setup another server and today, I'm going to tell you exactly how to do it. For free. Lets first go into what you're going to need: An old PC - this is the hardware that you'll run your server on. I'll refer to this as the server PC from now on. A PC to play on - a separate computer with a Minecraft client installed on it. We'll also use this to do the setup of the server. A USB stick - we're going to install an operating system onto the server PC from the USB stick. A domain - you can get a free domain from a service such as Freenom ( https://www.freenom.com/ ) Lets get started! Note: if you are installing the server on an existing operating system, you can ski...
Hello! This is my first time trying this, and we'll see how it takes for me to get bored of this. I tend to do stuff like this for a week or so and then never do it again. Take my YouTube channel. I tend to upload about three videos within two weeks or so and then not touch the channel again for 3-6 months. I'm hoping something like this should be easier to keep up with; rather than having to record, edit and upload a video for YouTube. This brings us perfectly to the next thing I want to talk about: what is the point of this blog? Well, I wanted somewhere where I could document my experiences with my "Home Lab" (if you could even call it that. It currently consists of a single Raspberry Pi 5 and a computer that's on sometimes. More on that later) and I was debating between making YouTube Shorts on the topic, or starting a blog. As you can tell, my choice was to start blogging. This is going to be an experiment until I get the hang of it; so please be patient with...