Could even be a hard link… (some applications don’t like symbolic links).

Edit: or a mount point.

Make sure to stop the application, mount the drive and link it, start the application again You have a backup? :-)

Thank you for the offer but I like the idea of having my hardware too :-)

Easy to hack: I’ve been Minecraft admin for a while now and never heard about that, do you have a source on that?

I’m renting hardware, so if it breaks I probably get the same hardware (and I am assuming backups will be on me). Yeah that is a valid consideration. It will cost me at least several days to find replacement hardware.

I have 50/50 speed so that’s ok.

And having a single open port in my firewall won’t do much. I’m trying to think of a scenario that is not secure. If the Minecraft service itself is hacked, then tailscale or Cloudflare tunnels won’t help me, because they will probably gain the same access rights as the user that I created for the server. Or am I missing something?

Weird TCP packets ? I probably receive those already, server or not.

For a VPS it is expensive, but this is dedicated hardware. A Minecraft server needs a decent CPU (not many cores) and is memory hungry, so a minimum of 16GB. Needs decent ping all over the world.

Because of the last requirement I considered ovhcloud and hetzner and this one is still relatively cheap?

No, not public.