Is this hardware food enough to run a minecraft server?

I want to make a minecraft server, but I don't have enough money to buy a dedicated one yet, so for the time being I want to host a server on my laptop. I have already portforwarded 25565 on my router so i'm good on that, I just want to know if my laptop is good enough to handle a 8-24 player server. My server will be vanilla, no bukkit or forge or anything else, just good ol' classic vanilla.
Cpu: Intel Quad Core i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
RAM: 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3
Graphics: 2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
Download speed: 4mbgs
Upload speed: 1mbss

Give Some URL Feedback for My Minecraft Server?

I just portforwarded a Dynmap Server on a Netgear router for my Minecraft Server, and I need to know if it's only working for localhost or if it's really portforwarded in there. So if you could just put

192.168.1.2:8129

in your URL then give some feedback if it works or not, that would be great.

And if it googles it then it means I have failed my quest of port forwarding correctly with a different port of 8129.

Thanks

Added (1). So if it's using a private IPv4 Address do I port it to my external IP?

Added (2). Okay so can you try it with 98.197.178.158:8129

It worked on local for me.

How to bypass my school network to access servers?

My school internet won't let me get on to servers such as League of Legends, Minecraft, etc. One solution to this problem is to buy a proxy such as private tunnel. Unfortunately Private Tunnel has been acting up on me lately and not working too well. Can anyone help me to bypass the network restriction in a cheap (or free) way?

Minecraft how much ram needed for a server?

I'm thinking of getting a minecraft server that has 1 GB of ram. I'm going to be playing with 4 or 5 other people and only going to have one world(survival). Mob spawning will be off, pvp on and keep inventory on. It is going to be bukkit and to have 3 plugins Greif Prevention, World boarders and world edit. Some people say I should get 1.5 GB of ram but I don't want to pay an extra 3-5 dollars each month for nothing.
What do you guys think?

Minecraft glitch, may be a developer prank?

I opened minecraft earlier today and the textures on the server I was on glitched and all I could see was fire, water, lava and mobs. No solid blocks, through them. Then I tried a singleplayer world and the same thing. I restarted it and deleted it even (Twice, different methods) and it did nothing. It had been playing creepy remixed versions of the original soundtrack, and that was a giveaway that it might be a developer prank. There were also clouds spawning under me. I wanted to know if this was a developer prank or if I could fix it.

Added (1). I had been playing the Snapshot earlier as well!

Why isn't the Minecraft server working?

I'm trying to portforward a minecraft server and I have the portforwarding part done it's just when I go to open the minecraft server it doesn't load chunks and all that. I downloaded the minecraft server off minecraft.net and put it in a new folder and then when I open it, it just stays blank. In the "log and chat" box there should be a bunch of files and things coming up and it should say updating chunks and stuff but its not it just stays blank and when I go to minecraft and search the server I can find it but can't join. So what's going on here and how do I fix it?

Free minecraft server hosting?

Hey anywhere that has server hosting fot free? I saw a guy who got his server for free but he won't tell me how. I want it to be like 50-100 slots

Minecraft server not opening?

Okay, so I followed the instructions of port forward to the T on how to get the ip addresses and port forward. I have an ip address set up for the server, and when I check the port it says "NOT OPEN" and I've tried lowering my firewall, trying to find the ip AGAIN and noting still works. I've sent the ip I made under the server to my friend, and I've sent my external ip.

I think I'm supposed to be able to click the option that says "Open to LAN" but it's greyed out.