Locally Debugging Spigot Minecraft Server Plugins in IntelliJ

This time I had to debug some code for a Spigot server plugin. Spigot is a custom Minecraft server. You download the Spigot jar file, run it and it sets up a Minecraft server for you. You can then write custom plugins for the server, using the Spigot API, and drop them in the “plugins” […]

Configuring EC2 instance connection firewall rules within the VPC (security groups)

OK, again with them Minecraft servers. This time I already had a bunch of them up and running on different free tier instances on EC2. Now I wanted to add a database and connect some of the server plugins to this. The DB should run in its own EC2 instance and the Minecraft servers on […]

Updating configuration files for EC2 dynamic IP’s

Needed to connect some of the EC2 instances running my kids Minecraft servers. Problem is, I am cheap and run a bunch of the free tier instances. I need to stop and start the instances all the time to save on the hosting costs. This results in all of them getting new IP addresses all […]