Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-97.93.235.1-20121216070528/@comment-1847896-20121217003649

For starters, and if you want to make it private, setting up a VPN and inviting your friends is the way to go. You can also host it normally by opening a port on your router and firewall (should you have any) and then giving people your external IP address. Protip: leave the "server-port" entry in the server.properties file blank. I've had some issues with it.