Hi
Looking to acquire a small 'server' computer for home usage. I am UK based and looking to spend ~£500. I want to use it for the following things:
Game Server Hosting (This varies greatly: Arma 3, Mount and Blade: Warband, Starbound, Baratroma - likely other not too demanding games in the future)
.NET development including WCF, ASP.NET, SQLServer, IIS and so on (For learning purposes, I'm a student!)
Possibly a Teamspeak 3 Server, although I am happy with the VPS I use at the moment so probably a non issue
My essential requirements are as follows:
Components must support Windows Server 2016, I hear there are problems sometimes with this? (My University has an Imagine subscription so I can get a copy of the server for free). I'd like to practice with Windows Server, I've used Ubuntu a fair amount already
I don't really want to build the computer. I live very close to the UK company CCL who usually offer good prices and build cheap, components they offer would be ideal
I have no intention of having large numbers of concurrent players or anything like that, so I do not expect home connection to be an issue. My download speed is 68 Mbps can't check upload currently. If I had to go by memory I think it's 20+ Mbps but I could be wrong, I can check tomorrow
A hypothetical build I have is as follows. But I'm 100% open to suggestions, throw it all out if you want :
Intel Core i5 8400 2.8GHz Hexa Core (Socket 1151) - £166.49
Gigabyte H110M-S2H Intel Socket 1151 Motherboard - £45
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x 8GB) 3000MHz DDR4 - £125
Corsair VS Series VS450 450W 80+ PSU - £35
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB SATA III 3.5" Hard Drive - £56
AvP Viper Mini Tower Gaming Case - Black - £17.80 (Fairly bad - something like a tower better for this?)
The total would be £445.29, I'm not sure if there are any literal compatibility or performance compatibility issues but I'd be very grateful if someone pointed them out. I'm not sure what CCL would charge to build this as it's basically made from scratch.
I am aware of providers who offer excellent spec dedicated machines for ~£40/month rental, which is basically 1 year of buying the machine myself. The group I'm with has been going for 6, some degree of future proof would be nice. Because of this, I'm not really interested in dedicated renting. The low budget is because I understand the biggest limitation here would be my internet speed, making high spec pointless.
