It's all depends on you.
Get plugins that are really necessary, and not childish. Same to OPs
It's not really a big problem to maintain a reliable server, look at other reliable servers and see the changes between theirs and yours.
I would add one slight modification on what Stonebringer posted. A copy of your files on the same drive does not = backup. I would back up to either a thumb drive, a cloud service like drop box, anyplace other than the same physical drive of the server. If that drive dies, all your back ups go with it. And I have had that happen in the past. Any thing with moving parts will eventually fail. And from what i have read running MC server from a solid state drive is bad mojo for the drive.
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Indeed. An external drive is a cheap insurance. A power blackout can sometimes be enough to kill a drive.
The server configuration i use for projects at work tries to be as failsafe as possible, and has mirrored drives with hotswap, so you can just pull a faulty drive, insert a new and it mirrors it all back, UPS for power protection. All backups put on a backup-server, which in turn get backed up by a tape robot each night. but that would be overkill for your private server. :tongue.gif: a simple external drive/pen drive, another physical hard drive as zombiemann said will probably be fine for your home server. :smile.gif:
Yea, that is just a little bit of overkill for the average home user.... but I like the way you think
One other thing I forgot to mention.... Make sure you use reputable plug ins. When deciding if you want to use a particular plug in, read up on it, see if people have had problems with it eating world folders etc. Only download from bukkit.org listed plug ins if you use bukkit. Other sites may list bukkit plug ins, but you are much better off going through the bukkit site for them, less likely to get plug ins with "undocumented features"
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I was just wondering what the best way is to run a reliable minecraft server?
Thanks
MN
Get plugins that are really necessary, and not childish. Same to OPs
It's not really a big problem to maintain a reliable server, look at other reliable servers and see the changes between theirs and yours.
Good luck with your server.
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I will let you know if I get the server working at the weekend hopefully!!
Yea, that is just a little bit of overkill for the average home user.... but I like the way you think
One other thing I forgot to mention.... Make sure you use reputable plug ins. When deciding if you want to use a particular plug in, read up on it, see if people have had problems with it eating world folders etc. Only download from bukkit.org listed plug ins if you use bukkit. Other sites may list bukkit plug ins, but you are much better off going through the bukkit site for them, less likely to get plug ins with "undocumented features"
See what we are building here: http://zombiecraft.servebeer.com