Minecraft Server

Goal is to have a Minecraft server in AWS to meet the needs of more users while keeping the price low.

Software

• Minecraft
• Teamspeak
• MediaWiki

Objectives

• Server running Minecraft
  • Get server installed and running
  • Setup a 1G ramdisk for the world file
  • Setup a cron script to run once a minute to backup the world file
  • setup a cron script to run every 10 minutes and back up to S3
  • Whitelist players
• Startup
  • Run system updates
  • Download a new server (in case of update - another way?)
  • start server
  • attach IP address
• Turn off
  • Expose user count to bash script (http://www.scottymiller.net/?p=42) netstat -unt | grep 25565 | wc -l
  • if user count is ==0 shut down
  • Cron to run script once an hour starting 55 minutes after boot
• Install and test Teamspeak
• Install wiki
  • lamp
  • phpmyadmin
  • mediawiki

Todo

• Buy a reserved instance for the controller
• Monitor hours run per month. If it crosses over 270, move to light utilization for server.