Anyone had any luck running Minecraft servers on DO/AWS/GCP? My current DO Droplet isn't cutting it, and I think I'm noticing the single thread bottle neck of Minecraft.

No, but I've had luck in not running Minecraft servers.

Currently running mine on a Hetzner VPS with 2 cores and 4GB of ram. It supports 5-6 players just fine as long as nobody builds any lag machines, and we have plenty of farms and contraptions.

We used to run it on a VPS with 1 core and 1GB of ram even, but it would start losing ticks significantly after 3 players.

You have to keep in mind that your cpu time is shared on most VPS platforms, so you don't get to really enjoy every single cpu clock for yourself.

Also, I suggest you check out Paper: https://papermc.io/

It's like Spigot but even better in terms of performance, and it even takes advantage of any spare cores you may have for some background tasks. Makes it much easier to run stuff on tiny machines.

I had a good time with Vultr compute instances (free credit so why not). The relatively strong CPU perf and 2GB ram in the smallest instance worked quite well.

I've also wanted to set up our own managed Minecraft server on a VPS with my friend. But since we play only 10-20 hours a week, we wanted to set up some startup/shutdown automation. Unfortunately we are lazy fucks and don't have the time to set up complicated stuff. We also found https://exaroton.com and decided to just open our wallets and go with this solution. Actually it's kind of cheap, if you don't have the time to play that much in a month.

@endor Hetzner actually seem to have quite OK prices. Dedicated vCPU for €25/month. As for Paper, it's been the only thing that has kept our current server running :)

@rutee07 Are you saying there was a performance difference between Singapore and Frankfurt? 🤔 Or was it purely ping? Because I definitely remember the lag, but can't recall if it was ping or TPS loss

@RememberMe Vultr actually shows some performance scores. Nice. They're on demand and have free credits, so why not try :)

@Lasoloz I've actually considered moving to a game host, but where's the fun in that?!

@ScriptCoded IKR? It's still in the back of my mind, that in the future I will have to host it on some VPS. Or even set up my own hardware and host it there, but that's just the dream currently :))

@rutee07 those were the days

@ScriptCoded I'm not rich enough for dedicated cores lol. We're running on a CX21 cloud VM, 6 €/month baby!