Creating a 2$/mo Family Minecraft Server
1 min readApr 17, 2020
I always wanted a Minecraft server but they always seemed a bit expensive. So I created this Terraform recipe to allow my kids and neighbors to play together economically but without compromising performance. The key was using Google Cloud pre-emptible VM that shutdown automatically within 24 hours.
So I never forget to switch it off after use, which saves me a ton of money as we don’t play…