Best / cheapest way to make a dedicated server for home ?
The title says it all, looking for.idea son what could i run minecraft server for me, gf and kid to log into from time to time to play. For now i host on my laptop and then play from the same machine but was thinking about having that separate.
Like others already advised you should be okay using an old laptop running Linux. Also get the paper server for minecraft as it is way more optimized than the vanilla servers
Edit: I almost forgot, using GraalVM instead of OpenJDK or whatever default Java installation is worth looking into. Doing that gave my Minecraft client a ~20% performance uplift
Also if you need help getting more FPS for a better (clientside) gaming experience feel free to reach out
Ngl if youre not used to linux I don't reccomend this, it can get a lot more annoying that its worth having to learn 2 things at once (but it will be more efficient)
Also keep in mind that paper breaks some redstone contraptions with it's optimizations. If that's a dealbreaker for you you can also install Fabric and some performance mods onto a vanilla server instead
I personally never had a problem running paper though