Host a dedi server from home pc?

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I'm in gaming clan that are looking for a dedi server box, i was thinking i could throw together an oc'd quad core athlon, 8gb ram, 1tb hdd for about £350.

Reckon i would run into any issues regarding running it from home? Would i get major lag when gaming myself? It would be running a few game servers, possibly webiste etc.

This could be a complete no, no. Just wondering, thanks.
 
The beauty of dedicated servers is that they use business line connections that will not bottleneck at all and the only bottleneck will be the player's own speed. Hosting from home will be like console P2P rubbish!
 
Try it with your current pc, give it a trial run... see how you get on.

I would before blowing £350 on a project that may or may not be doomed for failure from the beginning.
 
So unless i get 100meg internet it isn't worth it?

No it's not your download speed, it's the upload speed that is equally as important as well.

It's worth looking around at a decent co location package. Yeah sure you might make save a few quid by hosting from home but your best three options would be

1) Save the money on the dedicated box and hire the game servers you need from someone like Multiplay or Killercreation

2) Buy the server and pay the ongoing costs rackspace from one of the above from someone like Racksrv

3) Don't buy your own dedicated server, save the £350.00 and then just hire a dedicated server. You can really get a good deal from around the £50.00 a month mark on a pretty powerful server from companies like Racksrv etc.

You need to think through what games you want to host, will your clan be contributing, what happens if your ISP traffic shape for deemed 'excessive use' even on an unlimited plan (Custom game types and maps will be more data to download for the user) This should give you the info to find out what the most cost effective way is to host your game server :)
 
depends on the game.

i was able to host a 24 player minecraft server over my virgin broadband (30mb down, 3mb up) and i did that on my main pc, i was also able to download a few torrents (but not upload!) and use that same pc to play the game on the server (through the local ip ofc!)

none of the players complained of lag half as much as they did when on the pcg/multiplay server, which was the server i was filling in for while it was down.
 
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