What Hardware would I need to locally run a Minecraft server

DiamondIngot · Jan 16, 2014

I want to buy a computer and use it specifically for a Minecraft server untill it gets up and running and I can pay someone to do it for me.

My server will include:
1000+ players
Many plugins (MANY)
Different aspects such as plain survival, faction, prison, mini games, skyblock, kitpvp, and more
Overlaying tons of different worlds into the server (maybe as many as 30)

In other words, it will be a pretty large server

So I need to know what hardware I would need to run it from my own computer, and still have it be high quality

jbreese99 · Jan 16, 2014

For that many people you would need one heck of a rig. The rig isn't the problem though. You would need a crazy fast internet speed. Let's say you have infinite ram, and the world's best processor, and you had a 100mbp/s upload and download speed the server would only hold ~300 people. The processor is important but not as important as the amount of RAM when it comes to MC servers. For that many people you would need roughly this:
78.125 gb of RAM
400mb/s download speed
400mb/s upload speed
some very fast processor
Sorry to burst your bubble but the only way to host this many people is to rent a server. Back when I played minecraft, I thought the same thing, I would host a server off of my local pc. It works well for small communities of friends up to about 20 people. After that you need to rent a real hosted server. The hardware isn't the issue, it's your internet connection. Which sadly, something that fast isn't available to most people.

jbreese99 · Jan 16, 2014

If you have any other questions about it, let me know. I know quite a bit about minecraft server hosting.

DiamondIngot · Jan 18, 2014

jbreese99 :

where should i go to create & host such a server

Dazzer2000 · Jan 19, 2014

DiamondIngot :

You cannot buy such large servers easily and they are EXTREMELY expensive as in when I tried to find one they costed over 200 dollars+ a month. I don't know of a hosting company that has a package which supports 1000+ people, I had to contact the company directly for a quote when I was running mine but heres some websites I would recommend.

This is an actual standard package and can support up to 800 players. Don't worry about bandwidth the have 10gbps up and down.+ I have used this company before they are very helpful and they have a very seamless online console as well as support for administrating your server from your android phone such as console commands, moderating chats and restarting the server when needed. link : http://nitrous-networks.com/minecraft/community-tier

I have never used creeperhost before but I have heard good things about it, they have customisable dedicated servers here : https://www.creeperhost.net/cart.php?gid=10

These are the only two I found which support that many players but as I said before you can always get a quote from other hosting companies

Hope this helped

Deren

Keeper · Mar 7, 2014

As of today, March, 7th 2014, there's no way you can have a single Minecraft server running 800 players (much less 1000+), simply because there's no fast enough CPU cores to handle that amount of players - minecraft only uses one single CPU core .

Those servers that you guys see out there with those high (player count) numbers are using bungeecord, which is "gluing" multiple physical servers together - each one running its own minecraft server with its own map, (and where usually owners are using the multiverse plugin to "trick" people into believing that they are on the same map server) - resulting in a visual trick as if they have 600-800-1000 players on one single Minecraft server.

Anyway, the best minecraft server running on a single physical machine that i've seen, had around 400 players (i guess they were running spigot) - which probably had an extremely high price tag attached to it, with the best hardware you can rent (probably at $1k+ month

).
Usually a good (high end!) server can handle 200-250 players (Note that i'm talking about a "stable" server with a decent number of plugins - 20 plugins or so). This ones cost around $200~$300 per month. Yeah, there's a lot of hosters which say that they can go for 250 players for $100 or $150...but trust me, you won't get that, unless you're planning on having 1~5 plugins and instability.

DiamondIngot · Jun 5, 2014

Keeper :

As of today, March, 7th 2014, there's no way you can have a single Minecraft server running 800 players (much less 1000+), simply because there's no fast enough CPU cores to handle that amount of players - minecraft only uses one single CPU core .

Those servers that you guys see out there with those high (player count) numbers are using bungeecord, which is "gluing" multiple physical servers together - each one running its own minecraft server with its own map, (and where usually owners are using the multiverse plugin to "trick" people into believing that they are on the same map server) - resulting in a visual trick as if they have 600-800-1000 players on one single Minecraft server.

Anyway, the best minecraft server running on a single physical machine that i've seen, had around 400 players (i guess they were running spigot) - which probably had an extremely high price tag attached to it, with the best hardware you can rent (probably at $1k+ month

).
Usually a good (high end!) server can handle 200-250 players (Note that i'm talking about a "stable" server with a decent number of plugins - 20 plugins or so). This ones cost around $200~$300 per month. Yeah, there's a lot of hosters which say that they can go for 250 players for $100 or $150...but trust me, you won't get that, unless you're planning on having 1~5 plugins and instability.

Wouldn't running multiple servers on the same computer take the same amount of RAM? And how would you go between them without physically disconnecting and connecting to another server? And lastly, what do you mean by "gluing"

MADelineWoe · Oct 15, 2014

DiamondIngot :

wow....what I was thinking was like these server rentals that charge per gb...what kind of set up do they have...thought my daughter could dedicate her minecraft savvy to something that might bring in some bucks...t
here is the specs on a site that rents mc server space....

A Quad Core Intel Xeon E3-1270v3 Haswell CPU @ 3.50Ghz Hyperthreaded
240GB Samsung Enterprise Pro SSD
32GB of DDR3 ECC Server RAM (You are assigned 1GB)

James Mason · Oct 15, 2014

1GB of ram isn't enough for a minecraft single player client much less a server.

Knowing how to play minecraft also has nothing to do with running a minecraft server, and making money with one is also pretty difficult and is basically a full time job.

ArchitSahu · Oct 16, 2014

I dont think hosting that many players would be possible..
The NEXUS server has a limit of 400 players and with this Jerome and Mitch already have to pay a lot of for the Internet; not counting the amount of RAM they got. SO hosting 1000+ players plus is kinda impossible, unless you got some super high speed Internet, huge amounts of ram and some lightning fast processor. XD

xXChristopherXx · Nov 9, 2014

jbreese99 :

What would I need if I was to make a rig for just 20 or so people?

Duncan Tallon · Feb 18, 2015

xXChristopherXx :

~3GHz CPU, 4+ GB RAM, 25+Mb/s up and down should be enough

Duncan Tallon · Feb 18, 2015

If I were to use this gluing you speak of, could I host 4000+ players (less than 200 at a time)?

The specs I'm considering are:

6-core, 4.6GHz CPU
32 or 64GB RAM
Gigabit internet (1000Mb/s)

And how much storage space would I need if the world was explored out to ~50000 with room for people to explore out to ~300000?

isr001 · Mar 4, 2015

jbreese99 :

I have smaller ambitions, I only want to let max 10 people play mincraft PE at home
Could yo give some advise on spec's for a system - Processor/memory/motherboard and OS

Matt Dobe · Mar 4, 2015

A true dedicated server would have a minimal Linux distro OS as it would be streamlined for this purpose. There is even some distros of linux that people have made for hosting MC servers.

For 10 people you should be fine with around 4GB ram and a decent 3ghz processor. Even if it was sat on a Windows OS you would be fine. It's when you want a 24/7 dedicated server for 20+ players you need to start looking at a e3-1230 v2 xeon CPU and more and more RAM. Most importantly what is your up/down speeds? I would recommend FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) for anything over 10 players. You should be ok on 10-15 up/down for 10 players.

Duncan Tallon · Mar 4, 2015

isr001 :

Minecraft PE requires an iOS or Android device.

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