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Introduction
== Background Information ==
While Minecraft's multiplayer can be a fun shared experience, sometimes you just want to have that experience with yourself and a small group of friends. Now while there are options like Minecraft Realms, these options are on a monthly subscription and can get quite expensive.
But there is a much cheaper alternative, which is to make your own dedicated Minecraft Server. The best part is that you don't necessarily need to spend a whole lot of money on hardware unless you plan on hosting hundreds of players.
=== What you will need ===
While you can run a Minecraft Server on almost any computer with, for this instancethat can run Java, I will usebe using an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM and a 32GB microSD card with Ubuntu flashed to it.
Conclusion
Congratulations! You now have your own private Minecraft server.
While this tutorial should give you a good foundation for making a server, some other good practices should be observed.
Firstly, it is recommended that you learn how to backup your server, as to not lose any progress that would have been made. A tutorial for that can be found [link|https://shockbyte.com/billing/knowledgebase/44/How-to-Manually-Backup-Your-Minecraft-Server.html|here]. I also recommend you learn how to configure your device to a RAID 1 configuration. This way if your main storage fails you will have a copy on a spare drive.
Otherwise, you donow have a private server that you and your friends can play on.