First home server

[koneko neko]

Hello everyone. I have a few questions I hope you guys can help me with . I am new to the sever/nas scene. I picked up an hp proliant dl380 g6 if someone on craigslist for free and thought I would start tinkering with it. It has dual 4 core xeons and 64gb of storage.  My questions are what in your guys opinions be the best software and programs to use to get this going as a game server to run minecraft/ark servers and to use as storage or maybe some plex. Any point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.  

 

Thanks!

[manikyath]

if you have no idea what you're doing (not meant in a bad way), it's probably best to either toss windows 10, or xubuntu on it. in a sense the hardware isnt any different from a regular desktop, besides ECC memory, dual CPU's posing latency concerns with memory access, and a built in RAID card.

 

my home server runs just a basic "out of the box" xubuntu install, with virtualbox VM's for stuff that doesnt run under linux.

[Master Disaster]

12 minutes ago, koneko neko said:

Hello everyone. I have a few questions I hope you guys can help me with . I am new to the sever/nas scene. I picked up an hp proliant dl380 g6 if someone on craigslist for free and thought I would start tinkering with it. It has dual 4 core xeons and 64gb of storage.  My questions are what in your guys opinions be the best software and programs to use to get this going as a game server to run minecraft/ark servers and to use as storage or maybe some plex. Any point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.  

 

Thanks!

You will need Windows for ARK & Minecraft. Windows 10 Pro has everything you'll need, theres no need for Windows Server unless you want Domain Control.

[Windows7ge]

Personally I'd install a hypervisor like PROXMOX. Anything that needs to run under Windows can run in a VM. Then you can host a network storage share on the host in a container then QEMU for virtualized game servers.