Server hardware recommendations

[Comexs]

I want to build or buy a server to host pfsense on what hardware wold you recommend. The thing is I was thinking of buying a epyc 7601 and building a server with it and make a bunch of vms (lxc containers) with proxmox to host other things such as a minecraft server (up to 15 players max), jellyfin, nextclound, host vpn to access things within the network, torrent server, pi hole or blocking ads with pfsense, and some times other game server for a few days to play with friends. (The max amount of people there is going to be on the network is 10 but for most of the time it's going to be me and only me )

I not sure if it would be better to split the server or not what would you recommend and I also have no experience with server hardware just to note.

 

[Blue4130]

2 hours ago, Comexs said:

I want to build or buy a server to host pfsense on what hardware wold you recommend. The thing is I was thinking of buying a epyc 7601 and building a server with it and make a bunch of vms (lxc containers) with proxmox to host other things such as a minecraft server (up to 15 players max), jellyfin, nextclound, host vpn to access things within the network, torrent server, pi hole or blocking ads with pfsense, and some times other game server for a few days to play with friends. (The max amount of people there is going to be on the network is 10 but for most of the time it's going to be me and only me )

I not sure if it would be better to split the server or not what would you recommend and I also have no experience with server hardware just to note.

 

An epyc 7601 seems like massively overkill. 

[Comexs]

11 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

An epyc 7601 seems like massively overkill. 

I was thinking the something thing but I don't know what to get since I don't own or used any server hardware so I don't know what to get. All I want is something to run all those apps but also not consume much power.

[Comexs]

I might get a 5950x or 3950x or the next 16 core. since I think I might be able to run everything with 16 core cpu.

[Blue4130]

1 hour ago, Comexs said:

I might get a 5950x or 3950x or the next 16 core. since I think I might be able to run everything with 16 core cpu.

Even that would be overkill. 

[Comexs]

When I was playing pixelmon it used 40% of my 3700x (just the sever) with only 3 people.

[Rhok]

First, I would research the recommended system requirements on the servers that you want to run. Take note of the amount of RAM that is recommended. I've found that the number one resource that I run out on in my home lab servers is RAM. Storage is usually second in line, followed by the processors resources.

 

14 hours ago, Comexs said:

When I was playing pixelmon it used 40% of my 3700x (just the sever) with only 3 people.

Is that a constant 40% on your server or is that only an edge case when the server is trying to process something heavy in the game for a short period of time? Keep in mind that when you're running game servers in a virtual machine or in a container, you get to allocate how many resources that each VM or CT gets. 

I run 3 Minecraft servers on the same i7-4770 processor and there are times when the 4 cores that I allocated on 1 server hit 100% load. (Usually when it needs to render new map chunks while multiple people are playing.) But the experience on the server is still smooth (mostly due to game code handling resources better lately), and only 25-50% of my total CPU gets utilized because I needed headroom left for other servers in the same box.

 

Like I said before, look at the system requirements for the servers that you want virtualize and use that info to create a template for how many resources you might need to allocate. From there you purchase the equipment that you need to accomplish your goal plus be sure to include a little bit of headroom just in case.