Subutai P2P Cloud + Minecraft Hosting

Why Subutai grabbed me

Subutai™ is the first real Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Cloud Computing platform I’d seen.
Born out of a defense research project, it let anyone create a secure, distributed cloud using spare resources — not Amazon’s, not Google’s, but yours.

The idea of a democratized cloud felt ahead of its time, and I wanted in.

My contribution: Minecraft hosting

Subutai apps are packaged as Blueprints — JSON templates you can share on the Bazaar marketplace.
I wrote one for Minecraft hosting:

👉 github.com/neilspink/subutai-blueprint-minecraft

With it, anyone could spin up a Minecraft server inside their own P2P cloud in minutes. It wasn’t just about gaming — it was a way to show that Subutai could power everyday communities, not just IoT or enterprise workloads.

Running two nodes in Switzerland

I didn’t just code it; I ran it. For two years I hosted two Subutai nodes in Switzerland, in different locations. One in my flat, another in a family member’s home.

That gave me my own tiny but real private cloud, geo-separated and resilient enough to run the Minecraft world my son and his friends played in. It proved the point: with Subutai, ordinary people could build and control their own cloud.

What it meant

Writing the Minecraft blueprint and hosting those nodes made decentralization personal. It wasn’t theory — it was my hardware, my rules, my cloud.

That’s the future I’d still like to see: clouds that belong to people, not just corporations.