Hosting feasibility

Hi! I'm brand new to Minecraft, and trying to determine how feasible certain things might be. A faculty member at my school (I'm a technologist) would like to have her eight person virtual seminar meet in MEE occasionally. Players would be joining from different networks--their homes and campus--and I'd likely be hosting from home. I've gotten a game running with just 2 people on my home computer--successfully set up port forwarding, etc. A few questions:

1. Will I be able to host a server for 8-10 people on a recent Mac Book Pro? I've got fiber internet at home and plugged directly into the router usually get 100+ MBPs. The Mac Book Pro has 16GB RAM and an SSD, but no dedicated graphics card and a 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5. What's the usual limiting factor for hosting?

2. If the answer is no, are there any good alternatives? I was looking into dedicated servers (for a monthly fee) but it seemed like they may not work with the Education Edition.

3. How likely are we to run into issues with users/clients connecting to the server? Is it common on home networks? School networks? I'm particularly worried about students connecting on campus, where there might be more restrictions on network traffic.

Thanks for any insight you may have.

Kyle M

October 19, 2020 14:37
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Hello Benjamin Voigt,

Thanks for posting!

Yes, this seems like it should be sufficient to me with port forwarding set up
Dedicated servers are not compatible with Minecraft: Education Edition
As long as you are sure you have properly enabled port forwarding I think the chance for connection issues decreases drastically.

Let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks!

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