What is a Minecraft server?

Minecraft server is a player-owned or business-owned Server that is made for the Game Minecraft. There are different server files for different purposes of the servers.

Types of Minecraft servers

There are different types of Minecraft servers Like : 

Vanilla 

Modded 

Plugin based

Mostly Plugin based servers are good as they give handy plugins to offer and make your gameplay easier or you can use them to create a very unique server of your own Gamemodes or your own minigames 

How to make a Minecraft server?

To make a Minecraft server you need to host your own or use a hosting. To host your own you can use Serverjars

With a server jar, you can host your own Minecraft server on your device. If you Host your own server it cant  be 24/7 Right? Thats where free hosts come

Free 24/7 Hosts

Endernodes

Qloxhost

These 2 are recommended as Endernodes doesn't give as many resources as Qloxhost but Endernodes server Security is very good as your files don't get deleted every week. On the other hand, Qloxhost gives So many resources but your files can get deleted every day. Lifestealermc is right now hosted on Endernodes with no cost of money 

Now you know free host what to do ?

1. Go to their client and log in using discord 
2. Once you have been logged in make a server
3. Reset panel password 
4. login to the panel using your Discord email and the new password 
5. Once you have logged in go to Account settings in the panel to reset your password once your password has been reset you can log in again with your password 
6. Now run the server or Download another server.jar for your server from Serverjars
7. Now the jar you have downloaded if its name isn't server.jar rename it to server.jar
8. Go to file manager at the servers panel and upload it to the server's main directory
9. Now choose your startup java version for [1.8 to 1.16 Use java 8] [1.17 to 1.18 Java 16 ] [1.19 java17]
10. Once you have configured the startup go to the console and start the server 
11. Accept the EULA 
12. Now once you have started your server you can use the IP from the left side to connect your server

Adding plugins 

The first plugins you want to add if you are using spigot bukkit or paper or purpur are

Essentialsx and EssentialsxChat

LuckPerms

Vault 

Placeholderapi {Papi}

Viaversion Viarewiend ViaBackwards 

What do these plugins do?

Essentialsx is Essential for Minecraft servers as it adds very useful commands and helps a lot to server owners

Luck perms is Used to give players certain permissions. Luck perms has an online web editor to give you ease. With luck perms, you can create ranks and do amazing stuff

Vault is an economy plugin to give players their vaults 

Placeholderapi Gives You Thousands of placeholders which can come very handy

Viaversion: Have you played on a Minecraft server but then need to switch the version to play another server or you can access a Minecraft server but you're on the wrong version? This plugin fixes Mojangs mistake of having no backward or upwards capability. This player will make it so that players from 1.7 to 1.19 can join your servers