Hello,
My son wants to install Minecraft on a server.
I don't want to pay too much and I thought about AWS but I never used AWS.
Who has already tried AWS (no matter if it's for Minecraft or Laravel).
I have a question : the prices are displayed per hour. What does this mean ? I only pay when I really use the server when I connect on it to play ? Or do I pay for a full subscription 24 hours per day ?
I mean if my son plays for example 1 h per week, I have to pay only 1 h per week, so 52 h per year ?
Thanks for your help.
Vincent
You will pay whilst it is up. It would be ideal if you could define a schedule and start and stop the server in certain hours.
This might be possible with something like github actions that can be run against a schedule.
Other VPS solutions like Linode and Digital Ocean ask you to pay for the provisioned droplet irrespective of whether it is actually spun up at the time.
Found this https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/mycdo2/part_time_minecraft_server_12_hour_sessions_once/
@Snapey Thank you ;).
AWS charges you as long as the instance is running, so the trick is to spin up a small EC2 box and stop it when your kid’s done playing. I’ve also saved a bit by grabbing cheap game keys on cdkeysforgames.com, which helped keep our little home setup affordable. A t2.small or t3.small usually handles a few friends just fine.
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