Appropriate upgrades for minecraft server?

[DigitalDoofus]

Hi all, I have been looking to put my slow and ageing X3650 M2 to good use and have been wondering about turning it into a BungeeCord minecraft server using MineOS. I am thinking of getting Xeon X5670's and 32GB of 10600R ECC (on top of the 8GB already in system (may not work but worth a try)). firstly, I am wondering if using BungeeCord in this way is even possible? as well as if this hardware will be fine handling maybe ~50 players on each server during peak times. Memory allocations will be calculated later on dependant on individual server load. The upgrade cost as a whole totals around £110 which is way cheaper than any other similarly spec'd machine on ebay at the moment. I'm mainly asking if anyone has run servers on X5670's and is their single core performance sufficient for non-modded BungeeCord/Spigot servers?

tl;dr: X5670 run minecraft server good? and Does Bungeecord from same server workie?

Thanks in Advance ~ Chaz

[r2724r16]

I used to run a Minecraft server with 10 people on it with a dual core Mac Mini, and it ran just fine. A Xeon x5670 is plenty for a Minecraft server.

 

BTW, how many people will be on it at once?

[DigitalDoofus]

3 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

I used to run a Minecraft server with 10 people on it with a dual core Mac Mini, and it ran just fine. A Xeon x5670 is plenty for a Minecraft server.

 

BTW, how many people will be on it at once?

Per server or the whole network? I think for the more popular servers I would say a max of 100 at once the network at a whole I'm unsure of. 

[AbsoluteFool]

10 hours ago, LazyChaz said:

Hi all, I have been looking to put my slow and ageing X3650 M2 to good use and have been wondering about turning it into a BungeeCord minecraft server using MineOS. I am thinking of getting Xeon X5670's and 32GB of 10600R ECC (on top of the 8GB already in system (may not work but worth a try)). firstly, I am wondering if using BungeeCord in this way is even possible? as well as if this hardware will be fine handling maybe ~50 players on each server during peak times. Memory allocations will be calculated later on dependant on individual server load. The upgrade cost as a whole totals around £110 which is way cheaper than any other similarly spec'd machine on ebay at the moment. I'm mainly asking if anyone has run servers on X5670's and is their single core performance sufficient for non-modded BungeeCord/Spigot servers?

tl;dr: X5670 run minecraft server good? and Does Bungeecord from same server workie?

Thanks in Advance ~ Chaz

32GB should be fine yes. How many servers are you gonna host on the one phsycical server? What are your internet speeds?

 

Minecraft server version prefer serval cores/threads

[Panyu]

Your specs will be good enough since my brother created modded servers on a quad core that could do 10 people at once but I would say what's limiting you is your os choice MineOS is practically dead so people recommend installing ubuntu(or another linux distro) and install a minepanel something free I've worked with is McMyAdmin but I hear Multicraft(cheap) or Xenopanel(monthly) are better