I don’t know if the critique is well deserved, considering that “we” probably don’t “want people switching to”… a minecraft server management utility built in nodejs that’s also barely mantained.
Yeah, I think it’s clear that I really didn’t get the reasoning behind “we want people switching to”.
We’re talking about a server side utility, and whoever is using that should either have a bit of knowledge about servers, or be versatile enough to learn even if just by getting their hands dirty - on that regard, one should use a virtualisation system so that they can freely manage their OS and package versions without breaking everything in the meantime.
To contribute to this discussion, I tried CubeCoders AMP and never looked back.
Installation was relatively easy as it’s a one-liner installation script, but you have to purchase a license to set up a game server.
Mod management isn’t the best, as there is no real utility other than the file manager, but I understand that’s an almost impossible issue to solve because of how many configuration variants exist.
I had three instances running on three different systems at one point, even if just to host other game servers since it’s not limited to MC.
I got burned way too many times thanks to SD cards, one time I had a very good SD card fail way too early and can’t trust them anymore since then.
If I was supposed to do something like this, I’d consider using a SATA disk with an adapter.