Very naive question about hardware requirements for minecraft server
Hi, I'm buying an old computer for home server usage, including minecraft hosting. I will use a docker minecraft image on modded minecraft (medium sized pack, max 10 players at the same time). I know minecraft is very single core heavy, but I'm still worried it might not be enough. It's a previous gen optiplex computer with an intel i5-11500T, which runs at max 3.9 Ghz (stock). Is it enough ? thanks for reading me ๐
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Short answer yes, long answer it depends
Why didnโt you specify the mod pack name
it's a custom list, but it's around 70 mods with a lot of little ones and a few big content ones like mekanism
RAM?
Yeah it will
i was thinking 64 gb (obv not fully allocated to minecraft, but for plex etc)
Thatโs uhh not quite how it works and to start youโd only want to allocate about 8 GB. You determine how much RAM to allocate the server in the startup flags (see xms and xmx.)
You donโt/canโt allocate RAM to specific plugins
i meant a few gb for the minecraft server and the rest for the other docker instances, is that not how it works ?
the server will also serve multimedia content through jellyfin/plex docker instances
Ahh maybe I misunderstood what you meant by plex, usually thatโs referred to as overhead. But youโd only need 2-3 GB for that
You do not want to allocate more than 8-12 GB to the server itself because any more than that and it will have a negative performance impact
64 GB is capable of handling multiple servers with other services like Redis, pterodactyl, MySQL, etc.
yes plex is another server lol
Pl3xmap not equal to plex