If you already have an existing VCN with a public subnet, choose that. Next, we’ll need to choose a virtual cloud network (VCN). Here I’ve selected to allocate 2 OCPU and 6GB of RAM, which should be plenty of resources for a reliable server that can host 20+ players at a time! And I still have 2 OCPS and 18GB of RAM in my “always free” tier to run other VMs!!Īfter you have selected the shape, confirm that you see the “Always Free Eligible” label displayed. Pro Tip! You can check the server requirements for Minecraft to make sure that you size your server appropriately for your needs. It just depends on what you want to dedicate to each VM! This means that you can turn up one virtual machine with 4 OCPU and 24GB of RAM, or 4 servers each with 1 OCPU and 6GB of RAM (or any combination up to the limit). For your “always free” ARM servers, you get up to 4 OCPU and 24 GB of RAM to allocate. Choose the ‘VM.Standard.A1.Flex’ shape and choose the amount of CPU and RAM that you want to allocate to this server. In the shape dialog, select the 'Instance type' of ‘Virtual Machine’ and then select ‘Ampere’ (ARM) under ’Shape series’.

Make sure that “Oracle Linux 7.9” is selected and then click on ‘Change Shape’. Now, scroll down to the ‘Image and shape’ section. Also, choose an “availability domain” - any of them will do, it doesn’t matter for this server! You can just leave the default (“root”) compartment selected. Compartments are just a way to group different things together. Give your VM instance a name (I called mine “minecraft-server') and choose a “compartment”. This is easy, and to get started you can click on ‘Create a VM instance’ right on the main landing page of the Oracle Cloud console. The first thing that you’ll need to do to get your Minecraft server up and running is to launch a new “virtual machine” (VM) in the Oracle Cloud. You’ll receive an email once it’s ready to go and at that point, you can log in and continue on with this tutorial. The only thing left to do is agree to the terms and conditions and click 'Start my free trial’!īe Patient! It takes just a few moments to provision your brand new cloud account. Once you’ve added a payment verification method, you’re ready to finish signing up. If you want to upgrade to a paid account, you must manually and intentionally do so! Seriously! You will never be charged for an “always free” account. You will 100% not be charged unless and until you manually choose to upgrade the account. This is used for verification purposes and kept on file for easy upgrading to a paid account later on if you choose to do that. Next, you’ll need to enter a credit card. When you receive your code, come back to the signup page and enter your verification code. Now you’ll need to enter and verify a mobile number. Next, enter your address and then click ‘Continue’. I’m in Georgia in the United States, so I chose ‘US East Ashburn’ as my home region. Also, choose a home region (#4) that is close to you (geographically speaking). You’ll want to choose something unique and memorable because you will use this account/tenancy name to log in going forward. Next, choose a name for your ‘Cloud Account Name’ (#3 - also known as tenancy).

You’ll get an email to verify your email address.Īfter you verify your email address, enter a password (#1), and confirm the password (#2). You’ll need to enter a bit of information to sign up, starting with your first and last name and your email address. If you already have an account feel free to skip ahead to the next section. If you do not yet have an account, you’ll need to sign up for an “always free” account in the Oracle Cloud. We’re very proud that Oracle is now partnering with leading technology vendors to make Arm server-side development first-class and easy. They are suitable for a wide range of workloads including web applications, media encoding, AI Inferencing, and much more. These VMs provide better price-performance and near-linear scaling for CPU-bound workloads compared to x86-based instances. In this post, we’re going to launch a new OCI Virtual Machine that uses a new Ampere Arm chip.

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And best of all, it’s absolutely free! Forever!! I’m sure you’re just as excited as I am about this, so let’s jump right into it and get started! In this post, we're going to create a server with up to 4 CPU cores and 24 GB of RAM! That’s more than enough resources to host a game with 20+ friends with excellent performance (and still have enough leftover to create another server for something else). I have blogged about this before but in that post, the server was limited to 1 CPU core and 1 GB of RAM. In this post, I’m going to show you how to set up and run your very own private, dedicated Minecraft server in the cloud.

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