Can I set up a Minecraft server with plugins on a Raspberry Pi W where a maximum of 20 people play?
I think that the performance is too little, he only has half a gb ram and a correspondingly reduced SOC. A cluster would be conceivable, but a PI 4 would make the most sense.
The Raspberry Pi only has 512MB RAM - and of course the OS also needs some of it. The CPU is of course not too strong with a 1GHz single core ARM CPU. That can't meet your requirements (20 players AND plugins).
And how many players on Vanilla can it satisfy?
And how many players on Vanilla can it satisfy?
I can't give exact numbers - I definitely wouldn't count on many. Chances are, even with just one or two players, the performance won't be great
Then of course it also depends on how many chunks are paid at the same time and what happens in them
No that's not enough. I would rather recommend the Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB RAM.
There's a starter set here: https://www.reichelt.de/das-reichelt-raspberry-pi-4-b-8-gb-all-in-bundle-rpi-4b-8gb-allin-p284444.html
As an operating system, I recommend Raspberry Pi 4 OS as a 64-bit variant:
Raspberry Pi OS 64bit with desktop: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/raspios_arm64-2021-04-09/2021-03-04-raspios-buster-arm64.zip
Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64bit without desktop: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2021-04-09/2021-03-04-raspios-buster-arm64-lite.zip
For the Minecraft server, I recommend the version without a desktop.
After the download, unzip the ZIP and then iron the image onto the supplied memory card using balenaEtcher https://www.balena.io/...io/etcher/. It's available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Format the memory card beforehand.
To access the Minecraft server simply install the PuTTY SSH client on the computer. This gives you the advantage that you can create profiles. This saves typing when logging in.
for Windows: https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty-64bit-0.75-installer.msi
for Mac: https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/putty/mac#installation-using-macports
for Linux: Linux users can install PuTTY via the package management of the respective distro.
