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What Hardware would I need to locally run a Minecraft server

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January 16, 2014 6:41:08 PM

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


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January 16, 2014 7:01:41 PM

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.
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January 16, 2014 7:07:33 PM

If you have any other questions about it, let me know. I know quite a bit about minecraft server hosting.
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January 18, 2014 1:03:36 PM

jbreese99 said:
If you have any other questions about it, let me know. I know quite a bit about minecraft server hosting.


where should i go to create & host such a server
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January 19, 2014 2:00:22 AM

DiamondIngot said:
jbreese99 said:
If you have any other questions about it, let me know. I know quite a bit about minecraft server hosting.


where should i go to create & host such a server


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


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March 7, 2014 1:33:55 PM

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 :p  ).
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.
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June 5, 2014 4:26:04 PM

Keeper said:
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 :p  ).
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"
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October 15, 2014 11:25:38 AM

DiamondIngot said:
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




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)
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October 15, 2014 4:40:56 PM

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.
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October 16, 2014 5:14:24 AM

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
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