Raspberry Pi microcomputers can be a great option for hosting your Minecraft world as long as you don't mind doing the work to set it up.

The official Raspberry Pi edition of Minecraft is easy to get running, and great for hours of fun. You can also run a Minecraft server on the Pi, which is exactly what [Thomas] is doing.

This Instructable essentially tells you how to make a Minecraft Server in a few easy steps and, with a little effort, port forward that server so you and your friends can connect to it remotely.

Minecraft players just can't help but tinker, can they? But just how well does a server run on a credit card-sized machine that has only 256Mb of memory?