Planning is essential in almost everything. Planning how your minecraft server run will benefit you a lot if your server lasts long. There are a lot of minecraft servers outside in the world, and to make yours unique planning is the first step to success. Srvlst.com Consider starting a minecraft servers as building a skyscraper. Planning is always the first step.
There are many types of minecraft servers such as survival, pvp, jailbreak, smp, hardcore, economy, role-playing servers running on 4 ‘main minecraft OS’ you can say, they are Bukkit, Tekkit, Vanilla (Official), and Fead the Beast. There are also many small ‘OS’ such as Spigot but the four main ones that were mentioned first are the ‘boss’ of running minecraft servers. This is like choosing what material you are using to build your skyscraper, concrete? Aluminium? Glass? Wood…?
(For bukkit only) Then, you have to expand on what type of server you are going to build. For example, if I want to build a server for pvp factions, what plugins will i use? I would recommend PEX (permissions plugin), Essentials pack, logblock (anti-ghosting, requires mysql), signs, factions… The right plugin can make your server more fun and interesting to use.