Glowstone is described as 'Glowstone is a lightweight, from scratch, open source Minecraft server written in Java that supports plugins written for the Spigot (and Bukkit) API' and is a minecraft server in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Glowstone for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Minecraft Server and Minecraft apps. The best Glowstone alternative is Anvil-MC (ARM-MC), which is free. Other Glowstone like games are PaperMC, Minehut, Sponge and Pumpkin.
This gallery package will set up a preconfigured Minecraft server running on Ubuntu Server 15.04. You can connect to it using the DNS name (e.g. name.cloudapp.net) of the virtual machine on port 25565.
Purpur is a Minecraft server fork of PaperMC that aims to provide high-performance Minecraft servers as a replacement for Paper and Tuinity.
