What server should I buy to host a few gaming servers?

[TheJulianFilms]

I want a server that can host a few game servers for me. I want minecraft, terraria, etc. I want to build a community on the minecraft server. I might have about 100 people on at the same time. It cant cost to much, maybe 700 or less. I would prefer if it was about 1-500 dollars.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I just used a budget desktop build like a m-atx for my game server nothing fancy don't know about serving 100 on it but 16 players and 16 bots never failed as for as game play speed and all the games I have run on a Linux client don't know how stress full minecrtaft is compared to the iD games I use to host and I cant see paying bill for windows just to run a game server so I would guess just look at the minimum requirements the games need and start from there .

 

[TheJulianFilms]

Is there a server that's cheap and can host a minecraft server with 100 players?

 

[onichikun]

I want a server that can host a few game servers for me. I want minecraft, terraria, etc. I want to build a community on the minecraft server. I might have about 100 people on at the same time. It cant cost to much, maybe 700 or less. I would prefer if it was about 1-500 dollars.

Is there a server that's cheap and can host a minecraft server with 100 players?

I would get some entry-level hardware and run ESXi with sufficient memory to run the games you want.

Something like this:
http://thehomeserverblog.com/esxi/esxi-5-0-amd-whitebox-server-for-500-with-passthrough-iommu/

Without the video card and extra NIC would work amazingly.

I just realized you may not know what ESXi is, ESXi basically allows you to run multiple operating systems in parallel on the same machine at the same time. This way you can isolate the environments required by each server, and also take down/backup specific game servers/restore instances to prevent down time.

 

[junkeymonkey]

your wanting to serve more than one game at the same time ? I got more than one game on my server but I only serve the game I'm playing at the time so I don't know if it will do 2 or more never tried it.. and you say 100 players will there home server program allow that many players ??
[You'll generally need about 1GB of RAM for every four to five players who'll be hanging out on your server. Your primary roadblock will be your Internet connection.]

after looking at this I don't see where its worth it you must be one hard core player to deal with all this .... and then have java swamp the system

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Setting_up_a_server\

heres what it says at a minecraft site..... Setting it up!
First off, I HIGHLY recommend you run the Minecraft server on a second computer. If you run it on the same computer you're playing Minecraft on, that puts more stress on the computer, and limits how many people can be on your server, can cause lag for others, etc. The computer you run the Minecraft server on doesn't need good graphics, just a lot of RAM and a really good processor. 2GB RAM or more is best, and a Pentium Dual-Core or Core 2, or newer, is also good. [as I said above low end budget build with linux ]
http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/setting-up-a-small-home-minecraft-server/

so looking it over if you need the memory at 1 gb per 5 players any board with 32 gb memory support should get you there