Introduction
Hello everyone! I hope you guys are having an amazing day today! Today I will be teaching you guys on how to make a Minecraft server! In this post I will give you suggestions, tips and some nice tricks to know about! Before you even make a server you have to think about what kind of server you want to make! There are lots of choices out there, there is Modded, Prison, Survival, Vanilla, Factions, PracticePVP, Mini Games and many more!
Your Jar File/Minecraft Version
Now after you figured out everything you had wanted to do for your server you are going to need the version you want. For example you can get 1.8,1.9,1.10 those are versions of Minecraft and you would need to choose one for your Minecraft server. Here is where you can download the version you would like. After that you are going to need to do the following steps. First you will need to find a hosting site, hosting sites host your server which cost a little bit of money. To start a server you are going to need a money and the plan is to earn more money that u had spend on your server from donations and ect. Some good hosting websites people use is McProHosting, ShockByte and, Server.Pro. After this they will offer you a plan and how many GB you need for your server. Nice range to start out with is about 4-8GB of ram. This will make sure you have enough space for everything and will also mean you wont lag as much.
Getting A Website
Another thing a server needs is a website. People use websites for their minecraft servers in a lot of different ways for an example, people make websites to make a fourms and stores. Fourms is a place where your players can make post, communicate, plan events, and report cheaters or anything like that. For an example of a good fourms a friend of mine uses this one right here.
Plugins
Plugins is something you need to make a successful server. Plugins help improve your server by adding new features. A plugin that is most important is Essentials. Essentials is the first plugin you need to put in to make your server successful. To get cool plugins go here. To make plugins you would need to know how to code and that is a whole different type of tutorial and it's not easy to do. But you can always pay people to make you a fully customized plugins that no other server has so that will make your server stand out more!
Conclusion
Well I hope this tutorial on how to make a server helps! If you have any questions just comment below! Good Luck!