My kid is interested in having a private Minecraft server that he can share with a few friends across the country (USA)
He would like to rent a server, but I have some questions
- how to tell which hosts are not scams
- what are reasonable prices for annual or monthly rental
- if renting a cloud server, better to administer directly?
I don't currently have servers from home/closet, & don't want to take that on right now
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✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders
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i'm writing proper docs for git-pages; does this style of writing look good? does it communicate the point well?
https://git-pages.org/running-a-server/
from my link log —
Internet anagram server.
https://wordsmith.org/anagram/
saved 2026-01-06 https://dotat.at/:/19FXD.html<…
Jets' 3rd Quinnen Williams Suitor Revealed And Will Surprise https://www.si.com/nfl/jets/onsi/news/jets-3rd-quinnen-williams-suitor-revealed-and-will-surprise-pat3
Cyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets hackers access local instances of the n8n workflow automation platform, impacting ~100K servers (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secur…
This Raiders head coaching candidate is surprisingly popular https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/08/this-raiders-head-coaching-candidate-is-surprisingly-popular/88080407007/…
I just installed `asncounter`[1] by @… (blog post[2]) to get a glimpse who is accessing one of my servers. Turns out, 99% of the traffic originates from just two ASNs in Brazil: Mega Tele Informatica and R3 Telecom. I'm in Germany, my server is in Germany (I believe, it's a Hetzner root server).
I guess I could safely block these ASNs. The only thi…
i have finished the git-pages administrator's manual, a nearly 5000 word long document covering basically every aspect of configuration and operation
please enjoy / use / criticise https://git-pages.org/running-a-server/