mcproxy
start a minecraft server on-demand when people are playing to keep costs down. servers will automatically shut down if unused.
costs
you just need to pay for the time that the minecraft server is on + a micro or nano instance to run the proxy.
howto
- compile using
go build . - copy config-example.json to config.json and modify to your liking.
- run
./mcproxy
other setup
- install some plugin on the server to shut it down when noone's on.
- find documentation on how to start up VM instances on GCP/Azure/AWS/Whatever Cloud Provider