- May 3, 2014
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Hello all, I was wondering what kind of build I would be looking at to be able to run various gaming servers, potentially two or more at the same time. I would be looking at running servers for games like Minecraft for at most 100 people, more likely less than 40 at a given time, and Conan at around 10 people. I know that server hosting is available, but that is not what I am looking for. I enjoy putting this stuff together, configuring it and running it on my end.
The two games that I listed are primarily what I will be running. I would like to be able to have the Minecraft server up at all times, and then a small Conan server or whatever other game I would like to run along side it. I do understand that different games have different requirements, any game run in place of Conan would obviously be one with similar or lesser requirements on the server, and would have a similar small capacity. The secondary server will always only be for a small group of people to play, whereas with whatever I do for minecraft will be intended for a larger community.
I would prefer the build to not be on the expensive end, preferably under 500 if at all possible, but higher costs are acceptable if building a server for these purposes will cost more than that price point. I'm not really sure where to start with this. I have only built PC's in the past, so this is my first time trying to put something like this together. I have kind of looked at some prebuilt servers, but I like the ability to control what is going into the system. A prebuilt, or one with some modifications, is an option, but if it is possible to get more bang for my buck by building one on my own, I would prefer to do that. Thank you ahead of time.
As a side note, if a graphics card is something that is necessary for a server, but not something where it has to have a lot of power, I do have an old gtx 960 and probably a few others that I could plug in, so that wouldn't be necessary to be bought if one was needed for this. As I said before though, I'm not really sure what kind of stuff is needed for these systems.
The two games that I listed are primarily what I will be running. I would like to be able to have the Minecraft server up at all times, and then a small Conan server or whatever other game I would like to run along side it. I do understand that different games have different requirements, any game run in place of Conan would obviously be one with similar or lesser requirements on the server, and would have a similar small capacity. The secondary server will always only be for a small group of people to play, whereas with whatever I do for minecraft will be intended for a larger community.
I would prefer the build to not be on the expensive end, preferably under 500 if at all possible, but higher costs are acceptable if building a server for these purposes will cost more than that price point. I'm not really sure where to start with this. I have only built PC's in the past, so this is my first time trying to put something like this together. I have kind of looked at some prebuilt servers, but I like the ability to control what is going into the system. A prebuilt, or one with some modifications, is an option, but if it is possible to get more bang for my buck by building one on my own, I would prefer to do that. Thank you ahead of time.
As a side note, if a graphics card is something that is necessary for a server, but not something where it has to have a lot of power, I do have an old gtx 960 and probably a few others that I could plug in, so that wouldn't be necessary to be bought if one was needed for this. As I said before though, I'm not really sure what kind of stuff is needed for these systems.
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