Todd Sharp, Oracle Developers Blog - How To Set Up and Run a (Really Powerful) Free Minecraft Server in the Cloud

Choose "Oracle Linux 9" as the image

Choose "Ampere" for the shape

Select "VM.Standard.A1.Flex"

Set it to have 4 OCPUs and 24GB memory

Select "Create new virtual cloud network" and leave everything as default

Download the private/public SSH keys for your instance

Click "Create"

Click on the subnet in the page that has just opened

Click on the Default Security List

Click "Add Ingress Rules"

Add two rules, both with source "0.0.0.0/0" and destination port range "25565", one using protocol TCP and the other UDP (add multiple by clicking "Another Ingress Rule")

Click "Add Ingress Rules"

That's the instance setup done!

If on Windows, you will have to install SSH yourself

ssh opc@<public ip of oracle instance> -i <path to and name of private key file>

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martiandeath/Minecraft-Server-Setup/main/Forge-Minecraft-Server-Setup.sh

OR

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/martiandeath/Minecraft-Server-Setup/main/Vanilla-Minecraft-Server-Setup.sh

chmod +x Minecraft-Server-Setup.sh

./Forge-Minecraft-Server-Setup.sh

OR

./Vanilla-Minecraft-Server-Setup.sh

gamerule doFireTick false

gamerule playersSleepingPercentage 0

Stop the server by typing "stop"

Exit the SSH connection by typing "exit"

Go to your Oracle Cloud interface and reboot your instance, this will apply any updates completed during running the script

Reconnect to your instance and start the server using the command below, once this command has been run, you can disconnect from the SSH connection and close the terminal window

<public ip>:25565

nohup ./run.sh &