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If you want to rent a server, it is better to first understand who will be accessing it. It must be different from those that already exist. For example, if you want to make a vanilla server, then something will still need to be changed, for example the number of players. Make 48 or 64 instead of the standard 32.
After this, you will need to think about advertising the server and ways to receive donations.
You are investing a lot of your time and money and you need to think about how to get at least some of it back
It is best to start with hosting on your home computer and if the server is popular, then gradually improve the conditions, for example, transferring capacity to virtual hosting, and with further stable popularity - to dedicated
Don't forget to create a discord server to create your own community of players. You don't have to spend a lot of time setting it up. For the first time, only the basic configuration will be enough.
Also think about when you will devote time to solving various problems and whether you will be able to do this in principle. For example, to manually restart the server for an update or start the server after it crashed.
Practice these situations in your current time, for example, restarting the server while you are on the subway or driving a car
You will need to prepare to receive irrelevant feedback. For example, the server is not working well due to game errors, but they scold you for it.
Good luck with server hosting 😉
Let's hope the situation improves in the future
