Security question - Hosting game/file storage server

Bryan Kortez · 23 Feb 2015 at 18:33

I am looking to setup a server using some spare hardware I have left over mainly for personal file storage with raid etc and occasionally for hosting public gaming server e.g. Teamspeak3 and Arma 3 etc.

Would my files be safe on the same server, or would they be open for attack by some hackers that like to mess up gaming servers?

KIA · 24 Feb 2015 at 19:00

In theory, someone could gain access if they're able to exploit a known vulnerability in one of the services.

Why don't you rent a server?

You can get a reasonable spec for under £20. http://www.kimsufi.com/uk/

Bryan Kortez · 28 Feb 2015 at 16:35

They look pretty good for the price.

My reason behind it was, i'm going to be having a PC as a file server anyway, so thought I may as well use it to host my gaming servers as well.

I will have a look at what specs I would need for hosting something like a 64 player Arma 3 server with certain mods + TS server.

neil_g · 28 Feb 2015 at 17:19

unless youve got a nice fat download and upload id rent a server

Bryan Kortez · 28 Feb 2015 at 18:30

I've got a 200mb connection, so it handles it pretty well.

Cadbury · 2 Mar 2015 at 10:52

200Mb upload? I wasn't aware of any UK ISP offering that sort of connection that isn't gigabit FTTH.

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Mar 2015 at 13:23

Try it and see. Isn't hard to get something up and running and tested. Get someone to attempt to kill your systems and overload it with data to see how well it runs.

Bryan Kortez · 4 Mar 2015 at 19:47

You can get 1GB Internet from a few suppliers in the UK now, buts it's priced at around 50 quid a month.

The only down side about getting people to try and crash my server with DDOS attacks, is it annoys the ISP. Going to just stick to a file storage at home, and renting a server else where.