Home Sever

[Dalander]

I would like to build a home sever rack for hosting websites as, well as game severs, like minecraft, with a 100+ people on any given game sever. I would like to keep the budget around $1500 but I don't know what to buy. Any help?

[Firewrath9]

for 1500$, get a nice EATX tower case (100$), a super micro X9 dual socket mobo (150$), a pair of E5-2660 v2 (75 ea.), a dual EPS psu, a pair of noctua narrow ILM coolers (50 ea.) and 8x8 GB ECC DDR3 (80$), then as many drives as you want.

[mariushm]

Go at sites like webhostingtalk forums and see the hardware for sale offers.

Companies often sell their old datacenter hardware at discounted prices.

examples:

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1782209

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Supermicro 815-5
X8DTU-F,2x X5675 3.07GHz,4x16GB Samsung 4Rx4 PC3-8500,,3ware 9750-4i,4x WD1003FBYX
$130
Supermicro 815-5
X8DTU-F,2x X5675 3.07GHz,4x16GB Samsung 4Rx4 PC3-8500,L3-25121-61A (9260-4i),4x WD1003FBYX
usd 140

Supermicro 815-5
X8DTU-F
2x X5675 3.07GHz,4x16GB Hynix 4Rx4 PC3-8500,,L3-25121-86B (9260-4i),3x WD1003FBYZ 1x WD1003FBYX drives
usd 140

only available for pick up Quadranet Address: 530 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90014, United States . No shipping , unless you want to pay all shipping cost .

10% discount if you want all servers together

So get them all for ~400-450$ plus shipping. They're cheap because those CPUs are power hungry..each of those servers will probably consume 150w ...

 

another potential deal... though they're not super fast..

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1777941

 

20 servers for 600$ ... each is about as fast as a Ryzen3 1200
 

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Dell CS24-SC

2x Intel Xeon L5420 2.50GHz
16GB Ram
2-4 Fujitsu MBA3073RC 73.5GB 15000 RPM 16MB Cache

 

 

I think these use DDR2 ECC and you probably don't have much room in the cpu upgrade department (xeon 5400 family is max supported) but you could insert a 128 GB SSD in each and they'll work fine.

They'd be perfectly fine as web servers. If you upgrade to something with higher clock speed, some minecraft would be doable.

 

another but you'll need to figure out a good price and pm him : https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1769245

 

these will be comparable in performance to a Ryzen 1400 , or 2200g

considering you can buy them online for 129$ (but without storage and single cpu), you could probably offer 150$ each or 125$ each (for an order of 10, something like that)

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50 x Dell R410's with 32GB RAM, Dell Rails and 120 or 256GB SSD in NYC for Sale

2x Intel Xeon E5620 2.4Ghz, 12M Cache,Turbo, HT, 1066MHz
16GB DDR3 ECC Ram
120GB or 256GB SSD
SAS 6iR SAS internal RAID adapter, PCI-Express
Rack mount kit, bezel and Power Cords are included.

Please feel free to PM a price per unit or for the lot. The ideal case is someone local to NYC will purchase but willing to discuss.

 

[NelizMastr]

7 hours ago, mariushm said:

Go at sites like webhostingtalk forums and see the hardware for sale offers.

Companies often sell their old datacenter hardware at discounted prices.

examples:

I'd advise against going with this generation of hardware. They're 10 years old at this point and don't offer a lot of performance per watt.

The best value proposition is with the Ivy Bridge EP hardware (Xeon E5 v2) as they offer better performance and way higher core density at

equal or lower power consumption.

 

9 hours ago, Dalander said:

I would like to build a home sever rack for hosting websites as, well as game severs, like minecraft, with a 100+ people on any given game sever. I would like to keep the budget around $1500 but I don't know what to buy. Any help?

Don't underestimate how much CPU load Minecraft servers especially generate. Also factor in power consumption and backups. If there is a commercial

aspect to this, by all means don't host it yourself.

[Donut417]

12 hours ago, Dalander said:

I would like to build a home sever rack for hosting websites as, well as game severs, like minecraft, with a 100+ people on any given game sever. I would like to keep the budget around $1500 but I don't know what to buy. Any help?

Your ISP is going to love you. Hope you got a business line. 

[GuruOfNothing]

The question I would ask... and do of all the posts I get involved with when people sound like they have zero network management training and skills... is what skills do you have that will make running a server farm a good idea? Its far from just dropping some boxes online and letting them rip. I HIGHLY suggest not doing any such thing if you don't have the training. Why? All you are doing is creating bot boxes for people to do creepy shit with because you don't know how to keep them out of your systems. And like @Donut417 said.... your ISP is gonna LOVE you! Right up until the cancel your service.

 

If I got that all wrong, and you do have those abilities and training, my apologies. But people asking about a good server to host lots of shit for 100's of people does not say, "I have a degree in IT and I know what the hell I am doing." It says, I have no clue what I am doing.