Minecraft Realms Now Available Worldwide

[exfileme]

The Minecraft Realms subscription service is now open for business worldwide.

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[Josh Hird]

Add ftb support and great, otherwise meh.

 

[edogawa]

You could also, I don't know, run a Minecraft server off a raspberry pi which will be cheaper long run, and you have more control over your server.

13 dollars to run a MC server seems a bit pricey to me considering how little is required, 5 maybe, but what do I know.

 

[qlum]

Minecraft servers don't tend to run well on a pi, as the memory requirements for the server are pretty big.

 

[edogawa]

Minecraft servers don't tend to run well on a pi, as the memory requirements for the server are pretty big.

From what I've seen it can handle a small handful fairly well, but yea I doubt it will handle 8+ on a large map to well. Looks like you can get servers hosted elsewhere for less than 5 bucks too.

 

[razor512]

Insane ripoff.

For $5 per month you can sign up for any number of VPS's and simply run the minecraft server application on that. Performance is extremely good for around 20-30 people at the same time on the cheapest plans.
Why would someone spend $13 a month for a server that only allows 10 simultaneous players?

A friend of mine uses a $10 per month VPS for feed the beast (50 person) and a 32 person teamspeak server at the same time.

 

[gm0n3y]

Is this $13 for the server or $13/month for each player? I'd imagine that it the server hosting fee which is a bit high though not terrible. If it's per player then that is atrocious.

 

[Mac266]

Its $13 for the server per month. I think the main thing here is reliabilty; the server should always be up, and the fact that it is run by mojang, so support should be high.