Hi all!

I’ve already posted, that the account of my nephew got deleted on his main server and he is pretty devastated because of that.

As he only wants to build things with his friends, I’m starting to think about renting and setting up a VPS, as I’m still having a pretty much unused reserved domain lying around, which I could use for that.

Is that much work to get working (would be running on a Linux server) and is it time consuming to maintain?

And what should I expect hardware wise?
So what would the requirements be?

Maybe some background:
I’m a software developer for real-time Linux applications and I’m running my own business server with a VM as a Wireguard every point into my business network, and then some Docker containers for stuff I need.
I’m not that relaxed with server stuff like that, but I usually get it working and it does what I need.
So, I guess, I should be technically equipped enough to setup a Minecraft server.
But I don’t have that much time on hand to really care for it, if it needs like weekly attention.
That’s why I wanted to ask, what the timely expense/effort would be, so I could guarantee him and his friends with a stable virtual world.

Thank you all again advance!
The last answers here were really helpful and so I’m really grateful to such a nice community!