Minecraft server hosting.

[Mokilop]

Hi guys,

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this topic but I'm planning on building a pc exclusively for server hosting that will get better performance than the shared web hosting options. I'm looking for someone who has experience with online hosting and also hosting on a machine of their own. I need something cheap, at the moment I'm looking towards the Intel Xeon E3 1270, I'm not sure if it is going to be able to outperform the online solutions that advertise of using 10900Ks and different cpus of similar single thread performance but because the servers are shared I seem to get way worse performance than my R5 3600 almost 2 fold. Me and some friends are going to start a new server when 1.18 comes out and last time when we played on 1.16 we had some problems with lag while using the online hosts, I have tried a few the provide very similar performance and the only option that I have for better performance I think is a separate PC just for hosting.

Thanks in advance

[Jorban]

1 minute ago, Mokilop said:

Hi guys,

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this topic but I'm planning on building a pc exclusively for server hosting that will get better performance than the shared web hosting options. I'm looking for someone who has experience with online hosting and also hosting on a machine of their own. I need something cheap, at the moment I'm looking towards the Intel Xeon E3 1270, I'm not sure if it is going to be able to outperform the online solutions that advertise of using 10900Ks and different cpus of similar single thread performance but because the servers are shared I seem to get way worse performance than my R5 3600 almost 2 fold. Me and some friends are going to start a new server when 1.18 comes out and last time when we played on 1.16 we had some problems with lag while using the online hosts, I have tried a few the provide very similar performance and the only option that I have for better performance I think is a separate PC just for hosting.

Thanks in advance

You're going to find that 1.16 is kind of hard to run a server for because of the large lack of optimizations that come from java/minecraft.

Minecraft is a very single core/single thread based game, so if you can find something with a good IPC and good single core performance speed, you're golden.

If you're looking for newer hardware, something like a i5 10400 can be purchased and paired with cheap stuff

Otherwise perhaps you can run the server on something like a i5 3570 and Linux in order to utilize the hardware the most.

[Mokilop]

1 minute ago, Jorban said:

You're going to find that 1.16 is kind of hard to run a server for because of the large lack of optimizations that come from java/minecraft.

Minecraft is a very single core/single thread based game, so if you can find something with a good IPC and good single core performance speed, you're golden.

If you're looking for newer hardware, something like a i5 10400 can be purchased and paired with cheap stuff

Otherwise perhaps you can run the server on something like a i5 3570 and Linux in order to utilize the hardware the most.

So do you thing the old i5 which is as good in single thread as that 60 dollar xeon, do you think it can outperform the online hosts 

[Jorban]

2 minutes ago, Mokilop said:

So do you thing the old i5 which is as good in single thread as that 60 dollar xeon, do you think it can outperform the online hosts 

Most likely.
It depends on the quality of the online host, to be honest.

The better question is, can your network handle it?

[Mokilop]

8 minutes ago, Jorban said:

Most likely.
It depends on the quality of the online host, to be honest.

The better question is, can your network handle it?

Yeah the server is just for me and some friends 100 100 network should be able to handle this easily 

Edit: there shouldn't be more than 7 8 people online at a time

[Jorban]

Just now, Mokilop said:

Yeah the server is just for me and some friends 100 100 network should be able to handle this easily 

Yea, then I think anything under a better than the original i5 will handle it nicely.