Cheaper to go with a minecraft home server or a minecraft host?

[Carson Kendrick]

Hello all.
My name is Carson and I would like to either build or get a minecraft host to create a server. Would the host or the computer build be the most economical way to spend money. Would the home server kill the internet? What host would be the best . If the host is not a good idea. Then what parts would you guys recommend. I want to be able to host at least 50 people at one time. Then upgrade sooner or later. Have a lot of worlds and plug ins.
Thank you guys so much
Carson Kendrick

 

[flamefire999]

How fast is your internet?

 

[Carson Kendrick]

Maybe 30 people at most on the server.

 

[Carson Kendrick]

It is about 30 mbs

 

[flamefire999]

How fast is your upload

 

[USAFRet]

It is about 30 mbs

And your upload speed?

You also have to consider the security aspect. Hosting it at home brings a bunch of potential problems.

 

[Carson Kendrick]

I can't give you exact but I would estimate 19mbps

 

[USAFRet]

I can't give you exact but I would estimate 19mbps

Speedtest.net, from a wired PC will tell you.

 

[flamefire999]

Running a home server can be a pain. Just setting it up is tough. Then you have to install plugins and everything. You will also need quite a bit of RAM.
I would just go with a server hosting company unless you are OK with working through those problems (which could take a long time if you don't know what you're doing). You can get the iron ($9 per month) or gold ($12 per month) here: https://ggservers.net/minecrafthosting.html . The iron has a max of 32 players and the gold has a max of 48 players.

 

[Carson Kendrick]

Thanks for the help.

 

[Carson Kendrick]

If I could work through those problems would it change anything?

 

[USAFRet]

If I could work through those problems would it change anything?

I still wouldn't host it from a home account.

 

[flamefire999]

If I could work through those problems would it change anything?

Hosting from home is mostly for running a small server for friends. A small server would be a server with 5 or 10 people. Since you also have a lot of plugins you will have very bad lag with just 10 people. It would be so much easier to just choose one of many hosting services. Especially since you "want to be able to host at least 50 people". That's insane to try to get that many people at a minimum on a home server. Spend your money on a good hosting service. And you won't have a huge hit on your internet along with spending hundreds on a new computer for hosting.

 

[King-Servers]

Minecraft host would be better, they are connected to fast and multiple network