Required Hardware for Self-Hosting
I want to self-host a Minecraft server. Up to 20 players, SMP (probably no content mods). Latest Version, server software is Fabric. I don’t have a budget, however, any budget option would be the preferred one. An external host is off the table. I do not care what you think, I am self-hosting, period.
I need to know what kind of hardware I will need. Any help would be appreciated.
Aside from that being my main question, once we figure out what the hardware will need to be, I’ll need help figuring out what to do software wise. Not as much, of course, because I’m smart like that. Just tips on server optimization.
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you want a CPU with a decent singlethread
preferably 3.3k MOps/Sec or more (cpubenchmark.net)
avoid xeons, epycs, some of the old intels
ryzens are commonly used in mc
If this is your first time self-hosting Id recommand that you self-host on a random machine first, so that you'd be aware of all the trouble going into self-host, before spending hundreds of dollars on a machine.
I've been self hosting my own servers since 2011 and I've used countless different hardware/network configurations. It's fun if you know what you're getting yourself into, and if you have enough will to go thru it
A relatively new but still old desktop would be good to start on and test with to begin with
there's no hard requirements for running minecraft. It'll either lag on the hardware you try to run on or it won't. If you have a computer you don't use anymore, just try running a server on it. If you need to buy a machine that's faster, then do that