Need help with specs, please.

[legraudal]

Hello,

Does any of you have experience with building small servers for gaming? Some friends and I are playing with the idea, but we don't really know what would be sufficient for a server running three or four virtual linux minecraft servers, just as an example. Could anyone help me spec a server sufficient for this purpose?

Regards legraudal

 

[Steveocee]

What kind of budget are you thinking of?

With dedicated gaming servers it's not so much the spec initially but the ongoing costs which may start to drag on you, power consumption, somewhere to keep it and bandwidth allowances.

I didn't think for minecraft you'd need an amazingly high spec TBH
From the wiki I found this;
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Server/Requirements/Dedicated

For a "recommended" (not optimum) Linux server it says you need at least a Pentium based CPU, 2GB ram, 16GB HD space, 8Mb upstream and 4Mb downstream.

If you are wanting to run 3 or 4 servers virtually then multiply the above by 4 (worst case) then maybe add another one of the above specs again as you need some overhead to visualise with.

Realistically if it was me I'd try and build the strongest I could afford, Xeon 4 core +HT (8 core total), SSD based storage (maybe a couple of 512 GB's in RAID 0 or better yet 4 x 256GB in RAID 10), 16GB RAM and I'd be looking at getting FTTC 80/20 with an unlimited bandwidth allowance.

Although saying the above, I successfully ran a Windows based Arma2OA Wasteland server from a C2Q 6600 with 8GB DDR2 ram and a 160GB HDD so the specs may already have some overhead on them.

 

[Frozennova]

The most important factors for minecraft are SSDs and RAM.

We ran 2 servers using bungee cord so you could warp between the two on a i5 4670k box with 16gb ram and an SSD.

You can get an almost identical dedicated server here

https://robot.your-server.de/order/market#326942

for around €56 a month. I've used hetzner before and have been impressed with their offerings