Hardware Planning
Hey there,
I'm looking to buy some parts to build a server from home.
I'm looking to be able to run 2 Heavily modded servers, and 1 PaperMC server with around 20 plugins.
I've picked out some parts, and I'm hoping I could get some feedback regarding them, thanks!
https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/mfk96D
Parts
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard ASRock B550M PG RIPTIDE Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard
Memory Patriot Viper Steel 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory
Storage Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
Power Supply Aerocool Integrator MOD XT 750 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
Part List - AMD Ryzen 7 5700G - PCPartPicker
Part List - AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
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I think buying from intel is better for servers
not really
higher power usage, less useable threads
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1477009-psu-tier-list-rev-161a/ would NOT recommend that psu tho
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also a cheap gpu wouldnt rll help
go buy used hardware off of ebay imo
with Ryzen 9000 coming out soon, I hope you aren't buying a 5700G brand new.
you can buy a used Ryzen 5950X for $100 more than that 5700G brand new, or a 5900X for effectively the same price.
for $1k, you can find older barebones Supermicro kits (CPU + mem + board) if you plan on doing more than just Minecraft hosting and would benefit from an Epyc platform. won't be as good single-core performance, but you'll have buckets of extra cores and memory for other things.
This going to be public servers?
!selfhost
Home hosting has its drawbacks / caveats
- Is your internet connection fast enough? In both directions (around 50M is usually enough; you should check here)? You don't connect the server to your router via WiFi, do you?
- Does your ISP provide a somewhat static, public, IPv4 address?
- Are you aware and able to deal with the security impliations?
- Is your computer powerful enough to run both a client and a server?
- Does any inhabitant (human or not!) mind the noise, heat and energy cost of a machine running 24/7?
- Alternatively, is your playerbase OK with the server not being there when you aren't?
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also probably relevant ^
^ hence why I asked
particularly internet connection, you’ll need more for 3 servers particularly modded
plus exposing your home ip
As said
So these 3 servers aren't going to be public, just for a group of around 20-30 people in total
(Yes I trust them all with my home IP)
Thanks, this is an insanely helpful resource!
Okay :ThumbsUp:
I've always been quite skeptical about purchasing hardware on ebay - heard some horror stories of people getting sent random junk and being unable to get refunded
ebay will always side with the buyer provided you open a case within the return window. I've had no issues in the 10+ years I've bought through them. test the hardware early and test it hard.
Hmm alright I’ll have a poke around, thanks!
I ran an eBay shop and have bought pc stuff quite frequently and I’ve never been scammed.
You can buy extremely cheap prodesks/elitedesk sff pcs for under $300 on eBay with like an i5-10500 in them
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156131402515
Interesting, I never really thought about prebuilt until Lildirt mentioned, I'll see whats available around! thanks 😄
Yeah, businesses will get rid of good hardware because their support contract expired
So stuff that’s 4 years old or more ends up being very cheap on eBay for what it is
Makes sense 👀
Considering Minecraft runs single-threaded, the one you linked could theoretically support at least 5 decent servers?
it has a main thread but far from singlethreaded
nowadays
chunk loading, generation, chat, networking etc
(if you use paper)
Gotcha - what about Forge? I'm guessing there tend to be mods for a similar thing
uh chat, networking and loading is iirc, but thats from vanilla
Gotcha, I use Pterodactyl as my panel setup, iirc this supports CPU pinning, so I'll be able to limit the threads per-server anyway
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/326151056607
👀 This one seems alright - general thoughts on this one?
8Core 16 Thread, 2.9GHz
Obviously will need to increase the memory at some point, it's maximum looks to be 128GB so that's fine, 1TB of storage should be plenty for a couple private servers.
In comparison to what I'm currently running
Anything would support thread pinning, as the Linux kernel decides that. With that being said, most of the time thread pinning won’t increase performance, as servers with no players online don’t use the cpu
And on paper servers, it could even be detrimental to performance, as world gen could be running on other cores that aren’t fully utilized
Gotcha, unless I need to specifically lock to a certain CPU, it's probably best to avoid it then
Any general opinions on the above system?
Thread pinning only makes sense for hyper-optimizing performance on systems that have chiplet based CPUs that can have weird caching behavior.
Don’t know what’s standard in Aussie eBay tbh. A 10500 system would probably be absolutely fine with 20 (not concurrent) total players
Lenovo and dell also make similar systems, but I don’t know what the equivalent model numbers are
Alright thanks I'll take a look at them too!