The good news is that the most common issues aren't severe enough to put you off hosting your own server altogether. Here are some common issues you could run into, as well as how to solve them ...

If you want to play Minecraft with just your friends, the easiest way to do so is to run your own server.

It’s a bad idea to run your server as the root user, so you’ll want to create a new user just for running minecraft: adduser minecraft; adduser minecraft sudo ...

If you're interested in how to allocate more RAM to Minecraft or your Minecraft server, have a look at our written tutorial.

PocketMine-MP, a PHP-based application designed to create Minecraft: Pocket Edition servers, is free and available to download on GitHub. Installing the software allows users to host a Minecraft ...