Setting up a Minecraft Spigot Server in Windows Azure
I needed to setup a Minecraft server so that one of my kids could play online against a friend who had moved to another continent and they wanted a few different ways to stay in touch. Since one half of the friendship doesn’t have Xbox Live, but both have the PC / Mac version I figured I could sort out a hosted server for them to play on. There are plenty of places around that will host one for you for a small fee, but since I had some monthly Windows Azure credits via my MSDN subscription I figured I’d have a go setting up my own one and see how that went.