Hardware Selection
Hello! I'm new to all this so I appreciate your patience.
Context
About a year ago, we started a private Minecraft server using Oracle Cloud. We used the Ampere 3.0GHz shape, with 4 OCPUs and 24GB of memory. Unfortunately we lost the server recently and can't get one back due to lack of availability.
We've decided to self-host instead, it was already something I wanted to do for a while and I already run a light home server for media purposes. What I use right now is not powerful enough though and I need to upgrade.
Here are some more details:
- 1 server only, shared with just friends
- Fabric, with performance mods only to keep it vanilla
- We do plan on using BlueMap or an equivalent, not sure if it has implications
- Around 2-4 concurrent players on the average day
- Up to 10 concurrent players during events
- Hardware is planned to host other services (docker), but those are pretty light and for personal use only so no bandwidth issues there
What hardware?
I keep seeing that Minecraft is single thread heavy. I've been checking the "Single Thread Rating" on https://www.cpubenchmark.net, is that a good way to look at it? Then I heard that the core clock speed has to be around 3GHz. Would this apply to my situation?
As for RAM, I'm not really sure how to determine how much I need. I've heard that I should prioritise CPU and then think about RAM after, is that correct? I do know that right now that my current dockers use around 2-3GB of RAM.
Finally there's the budget aspect. I can only afford cheap-ish options. Ebay seems to have some great deals, especially on the Intel NUC mini-pcs. They're small and they don't seem to consume too much power, they seem ideal. But would they work for my situation?
For example, here's one. This looks good to me, but what do you think?
- i5-8259U 8GB 256GB M.2 | Around 117€
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Requested by thevinterjo#0
GHz does not matter whatsoever for minecraft CPUs
you want to focus on singlethreaded performance
the i5-8259U has a not very good singlethread.
the i5-12400F has a decent singlethread and is 118eur (from what i can tell, i'm converting from my currency)
Ok but isn't this overkill for my use case? Also, spending 118€ for just the CPU doesn't seem to be a budget option, considering I'd need to get the other parts too.
The i5-8259U I mentioned was an entire mini-pc for 117€
oh right, apoogies
If you’re using any map you’ll likely need a HDD as well; bluemap for example will use about the same disk space as the region files plus another ~20%, so for a single world over 10000 radius youre using a lot of that SSD already.
Last time I checked bluemap does not use that much space
10k radius is around 17 gb without bluemap
256 should be just fine
yeah
not sure where you’re getting those figures from
well for one, my own current survival world, where my 12.5k radius map is 26.2gb, and the bluemap assets folder is over 32gb, for a fully rendered 1.20.6 world
has also been consistent with my experience in the past, where fully rendered maps take up significant space
and he has 256 gb
and
right, its not a issue
no need to get a hdd?
fine, you're right as always
have a nice day
you too
I mean… if you’re concerned about disk space then use Pl3xmap or bluemap