Possibility of home-hosting a server

space55 · Oct 18, 2014

Hey, guys!

So, I plan on getting a server (this thread), and I wanted to home host it. My internet package is an advertised 101Mb/s down, 30Mb/s up, but I get 86 down 40-50 up (Optimum online Ultra 101 package). Would I be able to do this with what I need the server to be running in the thread already mentioned?

Thanks!

emdea22 · Oct 18, 2014

First of all is it 100MB(bytes) or Mb(bits)?
Your XEON might not handle that many servers at once...
Without a decent raid controller your raid6 won't run well at all

If your speed is in mb(its)ps then say every player needs 5KB of up/down bandwidth at least *180 players = 900KB *8=7200 kbps~=7.2 mbps up and 7.2mbps down ; If a player needs 10KB then multiply that by 2

You need to open a server and connect to it then start some sort of netgraph (some games have it) and see how much you use when doing stuff in the game.

space55 · Oct 18, 2014

emdea22 :

Ah kay. It's in bits. Also, will it work, or not? Also, would you mind recommending a decent RAID controller, and a better Xeon?

space55 · Oct 18, 2014

What if I went with dual of those XEONs? Would that work better?

emdea22 · Oct 18, 2014

I can;t say for sure if it will work or not because i don;t know how much bandwidth is needed per player in minecraft BUT i don;t think you need more than 10KB per person so thats about 15mbps up + 15mbps down total. Theoretically you should be fine. Keep in mind though that usage/player has a habit of spiking when there are lots of players in a small area. Even then i think your bandwidth should be enough as long as the bulk of your playerbase has a good peering with your ISP.

Just a slightly faster Xeon like Xeon E5-2609 V3 - i;m worried the 1.6ghz per core wont be enough for some not so well threaded workloads.

Regarding the RAID controller i have no advice to give as i;ve stayed away from anything other than raid0 and raid1. Look at some benchmarks and compare price to performance for your number of drives - should be plenty of them if you search a little.

BTW: dual xeons doesn;t solve your per core performance just the same as 8 or more cores wont do anything to help at 1.6. This greatly depends on the optimization of the servers to work on multiple threads well. Just go with my suggestion - its cheaper and should do the trick

space55 · Oct 19, 2014

emdea22 :

I can;t say for sure if it will work or not because i don;t know how much bandwidth is needed per player in minecraft BUT i don;t think you need more than 10KB per person so thats about 15mbps up + 15mbps down total. Theoretically you should be fine. Keep in mind though that usage/player has a habit of spiking when there are lots of players in a small area. Even then i think your bandwidth should be enough as long as the bulk of your playerbase has a good peering with your ISP.

Just a slightly faster Xeon like Xeon E5-2609 V3 - i;m worried the 1.6ghz per core wont be enough for some not so well threaded workloads.

Regarding the RAID controller i have no advice to give as i;ve stayed away from anything other than raid0 and raid1. Look at some benchmarks and compare price to performance for your number of drives - should be plenty of them if you search a little.

BTW: dual xeons doesn;t solve your per core performance just the same as 8 or more cores wont do anything to help at 1.6. This greatly depends on the optimization of the servers to work on multiple threads well. Just go with my suggestion - its cheaper and should do the trick

What about doing RAID 10 (1+0)?

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