If you're going to run off donations I'll wait until you have something stable and running.

let me know

id reccomend 4GB ram and some sort of quad core processor, like its not rocket science and with this kinda thing its better not running of bear minimum. my mate has a seed box with unlimited bandwith and 250GB for like $15 a month. something like that is worth investing in.

Where is it though (just that I know latencies can be a bitch)? Also what would it be like for use as a Minecraft server?

In Germany.

350ms away.

That's a little too far away to use for games

its fine for minecraft, its not an fps.

Latency matters. Even if it is only Minecraft, latency matters.

ok i have paid for a months worth of the $30 a month Supreme plan with Jumba.

It has just finished being built so i will set it up now and let you know what the server name is soon.

It should be done within the next day or so.

Ok i decided to get it up and running tonight instead.
Currently the server is up and has 896MB of RAM dedicated to minecraft (128MB for OS)
No mods as of yet. It has been paid for, for one month ($30).
I'm getting a ping of between 40-50ms from my home net connection and it seems to be running nicley in minecraft at least for myself.
Can someone else test it out?

Server name: mc2.orbitoid.net (this can be changed later)
if the dns records havent been updated yet use: 175.107.159.161

If this works out well i will do more work on it to make it more usable (set up mods/admins and maybe an ftp share with backups ect, ect)
For now its just to test so jump in and cause a rukkus.

I'll give it a test during the week.

hey sorry been away for a bit , but was talking to exigent people website

and tehy sent me an email back

Hi Daniel

We can customise the package, not a problem.

For additional memory
512mb = $10.00/month
1GB = $15.00/month
2GB = $20.00/month

If there is any other questions, please feel free to shoot us back an email anytime.

Kind Regards,

John
Exigent Enterprise PTY LTD

so even there $10 plan with extra 2 gig $20 (2.5 gig /5 gig boost) wouldnt be too bad, only downside is 100gig bandwidth

I had a minecraft server on an exigent vps for a short time. Not enough processing power was allocated for the running of the server, and it had a habit of regularly killing the server process. Perhaps either minecraft of exigent vps has changed since then, but unless it has improved I don't recommend them.

Hi Guys.
Server address: 27.50.90.78:25566
Finally!! We have a nice server to test.
The people at Cloudcube.com.au have let us borrow some server time on one of their servers:

CLOUDCUBE #2
Intel Xeon E5504 @ 2.00Ghz (2 Physical CPUs)
24.0GB DDR3 1333Mhz
100MBPS
Sydney, New South Wales

Obviously we dont get all of it. We get the specs of the "Minecraft Extreme" plan to test for a few days. Please log in and test it. So far it has been the best server i have used.
If this suits our needs then it will end up costing $60.00 per month. It comes with 1280MB of Dedicated RAM.

TEST THIS SERVER AS MUCH AS YOU CAN WHILE WE HAVE IT FOR FREE!
Server address: 27.50.90.78:25566
Mumble: Respawn.com.au
Seriously though guys so far the people at Cloudcube.com.au have been the BEST people i have ever dealt with.

Anyone planning on running a server this weekend?

We ended up running 2 servers. one was a survival that ran for the whole lan and the other was a creative server.
I should really try to get some pics up here of what people ended up making in the creative server. it was quite cool.