Can I make a steam cache server?

[T0MMEN]

So im currently hosting a teamspeak 3, csgo and minecraft server on my old HP 8200 compaq. That works fine. But is it possible to also make a steam cache server on the same server - on windows ?

If not on windows, do you think the 2cores is enough for a VM linux server? 

[Eigenvektor]

This guide uses Linux, but they also mention a Docker version, which should run on Windows: Building a local Steam caching server to ease the bandwidth blues. The Linux version primarily seems to use Nginx which is also available on Windows, so it should be doable.

 

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If not on windows, do you think the 2cores is enough for a VR linux server?

You mean VM, not VR, right? A cache server shouldn't use that much CPU, mostly bandwidth (HDD/SSD and network), so it should be fine. The guide uses Docker, which is technically more lightweight than a VM. This is only true on Windows Server 2016 as far as I know, because it actually runs inside a Linux VM on Windows 10, which doesn't support it natively, like Linux would.

[T0MMEN]

59 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

This guide uses Linux, but they also mention a Docker version, which should run on Windows: Building a local Steam caching server to ease the bandwidth blues. The Linux version primarily seems to use Nginx which is also available on Windows, so it should be doable.

 

You mean VM, not VR, right? A cache server shouldn't use that much CPU, mostly bandwidth (HDD/SSD and network), so it should be fine. The guide uses Docker, which is technically more lightweight than a VM. This is only true on Windows Server 2016 as far as I know, because it actually runs inside a Linux VM on Windows 10, which doesn't support it natively, like Linux would.

A VM yes, misspelled So it becomes a vm inside a vm ? Im running windows 10 pro 64bit on my "server-pc"

Holy shit that seemd complicated

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, T0MMEN said:

A VM yes, misspelled So it becomes a vm inside a vm ? Im running windows 10 pro 64bit on my "server-pc"

Holy shit that seemd complicated

No, a Docker container inside a VM. A Docker container is similar to a VM but more lightweight. If you only need a single one using a VM directly is probably the better option. It would make more sense on Linux or Server 2016 because the container would be running natively instead of spinning up a Linux VM to run it

 

I haven't really looked at the Ars article in too much detail, but it looks like the caching server is simply using Nginx. That is also available for Windows, so you should be able to set up the whole thing on Windows directly. I don't think there's anything in the setup that mandates Linux as an OS. The article even mentions that it should work on Windows. It looks like you also need a DNS server which I'm not sure is available on Windows non-server, but you could probably get away with running just that one part as a Docker image.

[2FA]

This is the up to date software you want https://github.com/lancachenet/monolithic

[T0MMEN]

18 hours ago, 2FA said:

This is the up to date software you want https://github.com/lancachenet/monolithic

That is for linux?

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 hours ago, T0MMEN said:

That is for linux?

The suggested way is to use docker, which is linux only(it runs in a vm if its not on linux)

 

You can compile your own, but no reason to.

 

Also how much speed do you want? I run one of these caching servers, and they can get pretty resource hungry if you want full gig speeds.