Question about home servers
Back when I was at uni, a teacher told us that just like we “rent” servers for a limited time, we can also provide our own home servers so they keep them plugged in, refrigerated and with internet connection, so customers only pay for that, instead of the whole machine.
I can do my own research on the topic, but I don’t quite get the proper keywords to start, does someone know how this kind of service is called? (or if it even exists)
Since this is a minecraft related discord, I guess I should also make the question related to minecraft…
While this is definitely overkill, did someone tried this in the past? If so, what was your experience?
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This is more a technology question, than an mc one tbh
Renting a server is generally called a VPS (Virtual Private Server). Running a server at home is just having a computer running that serves things (like a Minecraft server, website, things like that)
I might have not worded my question properly
What I was told back then, is that if I have a home server, the machine itself, instead of having it in my residence with my ip, and taking my resources, I can instead give it to a company so they can keep it for me
Then I only pay for the resources it takes to be online in their network
(I'm in a voice chat if you want to jump in, maybe easier than explaining through text)
Ooooh
okay, yeah that's called housing
Server housing?
(and its kinda expensive, there's a reason most people host at home)
yep
Oooh, server housing or server colocation, now I’m finally getting proper results
But generally that means you need to go to the datacenter, install the server in a rack yourself, manage the network, etc...
What about the prices?
I was told it should be cheaper than renting a vps or bare metal in the long run
Usually starts at a few hundred follars per month
Ouch
Renting a VPS can be as cheap as 2-3 bucks a month
Yh ik
Vps was a bad example tbh, those are just a couple gb
and can cost hundreds per month for ultra-high end stuff (but at that point it's generally a dedicated server rather than a VPS)
you can get VPSs with 64 gigs of RAM, 8 or more cores easy
Are you looking to host a MC server? Because housing is only really worth it if you've already got the hardware and are expecting more users than your network can handle
Or are extremely worried about bad actors being in your network, but that can easily be mitigated with proper security practices
Nah, this was not meant for minecraft
I was considering saving for a couple of months to buy a home server for other purposes, since I do a lot of stuff on the cloud
Check out r/selfhosted and r/homelab, plenty of ressources for hosting at home
I have 2 servers running at home + a VPS for my Minecraft network
Example, I found a small one with 6 cores and 200 ram
I wanted to investigate if over the course of 2-4 years was cheaper to purchase individual resources (multiple vps or bare metal up to 200gb and 6c)
Or to house the server
Housing will almost definetly be more expensive than renting a server
The cheapest (but more expensive up-front) is to buy the server and run it at home
If you're housing, you're going to the datacenter any time you need to touch the hardware
Definitely not worth it then
At least for stuff that needs to be accessed from the internet, I should just stay with the services I have
Maybe will consider a home server in the far future if I need more heavy/complex stuff locally
I’ll also give these a look, thxx
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