Best server line for game hosting?

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If I were looking to get a server for the purpose of hosting games, what would be the best line of server for the purpose? Proliant? Poweredge? Some other type?
 
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To host games, unless you need an extraordinary amount of RAM, you don't need a true server chassis. For a large LAN party where you have hundreds of people supported, a true server could be appropriate.

What scale of game hosting are you trying to accomplish?
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To host games, unless you need an extraordinary amount of RAM, you don't need a true server chassis. For a large LAN party where you have hundreds of people supported, a true server could be appropriate.

What scale of game hosting are you trying to accomplish?
 
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Well, we only intend to have perhaps 10-20 people on it at once, but some of the games tend to be a bit stressful, especially when modded. For example, we currently run on a machine with 24GB of RAM (RAM has never been the limiting factor) and dual Xeon X5560s (which are the limiting factor). When we attempt to run a modded Space Engineers server, we have issues with the server forcing a lower sim speed after only a few days, due to server-side performance issues. Furthermore, we do need a fair bit of RAM, as we play a game called Starmade a lot, which uses an extraordinary amount of server memory (12+ GB).
 
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I'm not looking for someone to host a server for me, I'm looking to buy the hardware and operate it myself.
 
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