Creating your own Minecraft server is a great experience, whether you want to play with your friends or build your own community of fans.
That’s why at we offer dedicated Minecraft hosting services to make creating your server easier and hassle-free.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create your Minecraft server in a few minutes and on various platforms. By the end, you will know how to set up a Minecraft server on Linux, Windows, and Mac operating systems, and with . Thus, you will have more freedom to play the video game with your own rules.
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How to set up a Minecraft server with
Setting up a Minecraft server on is really simple and we will show you how you can do it.
Which Minecraft hosting plan is for me?
If you want to run a larger server without a problem, you need the resources to do so. That’s why we offer five different plans so you can choose according to your needs.
For example, if you want to run a server for up to 100 people without any hiccups, you can opt for our Village Plan offering 3 GB of memory; that’s more than enough to run a proper minecraft server for all your needs and give your friends an enjoyable experience.
In general, the more RAM you have for your server, the more people can play at the same time. If there are too many people for a server to handle, you may start to experience lag issues that can affect gameplay.
Also, more RAM allows you to install more plugins on your server, which also affects the speed of your server.
If that’s not enough, when you choose one of our plans you will get additional features, such as instant server configuration, DDoS protection, automatic off-site backups and much more. If you ever get stuck, we have a 24/7 customer support team that will answer any questions you may have.
How to create a Minecraft server in hPanel?
Setting up a Minecraft server with has never been easier. Once you have chosen your plan and made the purchase, log in to your account. From there, we’ll walk you through the rest of the steps:
- In the hPanel, in the section of Setting, you will see your newly purchased Minecraft server ready to be configured. Click the settings button on the right.
- Follow the instructions given, such as filling in the server name and the root passwordto complete the initial setup process.
- Once this is done, you will find your minecraft under the section VPS on the home screen of your hPanel. click on Continue to go to the screen Server Management.
- To start your newly configured server, simply click the start button. beginning under the Server Status and wait a couple of minutes.
Congratulations, your Minecraft server is now up.
How to set up the Minecraft Control Panel – MultiCraft and Game Panel
Now, we can configure the control panel to manage the server.
offers two control panels to choose from: MultiCraft Y game panel.
MultiCraft is a popular option that allows users to manage multiple Minecraft servers from a single interface. On the other hand, Game Panel is an open source control panel for running Minecraft, Counter-Strike, Call of Duty, and Steam-based games.
Let’s explore how to configure each of them.
MultiCraft
First, go to hPanelselect your minecraft vps server, and navigate to the Server Administration tab. Then scroll down to Other Settings. Make sure the operating system is MultiCraft Minecraft Panel.
If not, change it to MultiCraft and click Save Changes. Please note that this transition may take a few minutes to complete. You can see if the process has finished in the Last Actions tab.
Once complete, go back to the Server Administration tab and go to the Grades. You will use your control panel username and password to log in to MultiCraft.
Select the blue login details button on the left side of the page and click the login URL to open the MultiCraft login page.
Here, copy and paste the login information you previously obtained.
You are in the Multicraft control panel. Now, head over to the Servers tab and select create server.
Here are several fields you need to fill out:
- Write the server name and the slots for players of your choice. Make sure the number does not exceed your Minecraft hosting plan.
- In Assign to user, specifies which user to give permission to manage the server. If you want to do it yourself, just write admin.
- Leave the spaces IP, Port, Memory, .JAR File empty. The system will generate default values.
Press CreateServer once this is done. Then press Save at the bottom and Start to get your server up and running.
Below all the information about the server, you will find Resource Usage to see how the server is doing and which players are currently connected.
On the left side of the control panel is access to all Minecraft server settings.
The Console is where you can see everything that is happening on the server.
In the Players section, you can see the history of all the people who have connected to the server. You can set different roles, find the IP addresses of players, or even block players for misbehaving.
For a complete list of information on all the available settings that you can modify, see the .
game board
To use the Game Dashboard, go to the Server Management tab of your Minecraft VPS hosting account. In the Other settings section, check if the operating system is Debian 10 with Game Panel.
If not, change it, click Save Changes, and wait for the transition to complete.
In the Notes section, you will find the access data to the games panel as indicated below.
Click the login details button and click the URL to open the login page.
Here, enter the login information you got earlier.
You have accessed the Game Panel home page. click on CreateInstance to configure the game.
Choose the version of Minecraft you prefer. For example, let’s use Java Edition. Then click Create Instance. The setup process will take a few minutes.
When finished, click Manage to configure the server.
To start running the server, press the start button. Then, accept Mojang’s EULA to continue.
Congratulations, the server is now up and running. To access it, click Return to Instances and use the Endpoint IP address to connect to the server. More information about it is available in the official Minecraft documentation.
How to create a Minecraft server on Linux
In this section, you will learn how to make a Minecraft server on a machine running Ubuntu or CentOS.
Before you begin, make sure you have root SSH access to your machine. If you are using ‘s Minecraft Hosting plan, the login credentials are located in the tab servers of the hPanel.
The server creation process on these two operating systems is quite similar, but there are some differences that you will notice when installing the necessary packages.
Step 1 – Install Java and Screen
Before we get started, please note that the minimum OS requirements for the following tutorial are Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7.
Connect to your server via SSH. Open the integrated terminal (for Windows users) and type the following command:
ssh username@ipaddress
NOTE: Don’t forget to change both values with your real username and the IP address of the server. When prompted, enter your username and password.
1. Please note that the Minecraft server setup requires that Java is installed on the system. You may already have Java installed on your system. To verify this, run the following command:
java -version
2. Continue with the second section of this tutorial if you already have Java installed. However, if you don’t have Java, follow the next step.
3. Run these two commands to download the latest software packages and install Java:
- In Ubuntu:
Import the PPA using this command in your terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java -y
sudo apt update To install using the APT package manager, use the following command: sudo apt-get install oracle-java17-installer oracle-java17-set-default - In CentOS: sudo yum update sudo yum install java -y
4. Once the Java installation is complete, you can install Screen:
Step 2 – Install and run Minecraft Server on Linux
Now that Java and Screen are ready, we can start installing a Minecraft server.
1. Create a new directory where you will store all your Minecraft files. This step is optional, but we highly recommend it so you can keep your system organized. To do this, type:
mkdir minecraft
2. Move to the newly created directory by entering:
minecraft cd
3. Before you can download the required files, install wget:
4. Use the command wget To download the Minecraft server files:
wget https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/bb2b6b1aefcd70dfd1892149ac3a215f6c636b07/server.jar
5. In this example, the latest version is 1.15.2. You should to check if there is a newer version available for download.
6. Run the Minecraft server file by entering this command. If you want to use the GUI, just remove the part that says nogui from the command:
java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.1.15.2.jar nogui
7. At this point, the server program will not start yet. Instead, it will create a file EULA (end user license agreement) that we must first accept.
8. To accept the Minecraft EULA, open the file eula.txt with the Nano text editor:
sudo nano eula.txt
9. Find the line that says:
eula=false
Then change it:
eula=true
Once done, don’t forget to save your changes.
10. Once this is done, enable Screen so the server can run in the background:
screen -S “Minecraft server 1”
11. You can change the name according to your preferences.
Good work! You have successfully installed your custom Minecraft server on Ubuntu or CentOS.
Step 3 – Run the Minecraft server
Now you just have to run the installed server. To achieve this, run the following command in the terminal:
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