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[AliceRae96]

After looking into the long term cost of renting out game servers for the variety of multiplayer games me and my friends play together I am wanting to look into hosting them myself. I only want to build one system thou so I would need/want something that can run multiple game servers at a time for up to 5 people. My bandwidth isn't a concern as I have fiber I am just questioning what type of hardware would be required (as well as what type of software I should use Linux, Windows, Windows Server, etc.) If it helps I am horribly unfamiliar with anything other than commercial windows 10 and 11. This is what I have priced out as of now https://pcpartpicker.com/user/monster0429/saved/n8tdqs. Now I know going AMD might not be the best choice so I am willing to switch if it means better performance or a better dollar amount (I have just used AMD in all my personal systems which is why I went with it). In the future I could see throwing some larger HDD's in the system as well to serve as a file server as well (if that type of configuration is possible) if not that's totally fine. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

you got a private parts list.

 

Also do you have the buiness grade fiber? Thats a lot more than residental fiber, and typically waht you want for hosting. You can also look into colocation.

 

I'd do a bit of learning about hypervisors before hosting this.

[AliceRae96]

18 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you got a private parts list.

 

Also do you have the buiness grade fiber? Thats a lot more than residental fiber, and typically waht you want for hosting. You can also look into colocation.

 

I'd do a bit of learning about hypervisors before hosting this.

So sorry updated the link. And its residential fiber but with 3 of the 5 users being locally connected to the same network I assumed that it wouldn't be a problem for 2 others to join remotely. And I will certainly look into those, I assumed that VM's would be required in some way in order to host multiple things on a single set of hardware. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, monster0429 said:

So sorry updated the link. And its residential fiber but with 3 of the 5 users being locally connected to the same network I assumed that it wouldn't be a problem for 2 others to join remotely. 

If the users are in the single digits I wouldn't worry abut internet too mcuh then.

 

I'd proably get more than 6 cores for multiple games servers at the same time.

 

I'd put a hypervisor on the hardware like proxmox. Then you can easily backup vms, take snapshots, and one vm having issues on't affect others.

[AliceRae96]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If the users are in the single digits I wouldn't worry abut internet too mcuh then.

 

I'd proably get more than 6 cores for multiple games servers at the same time.

 

I'd put a hypervisor on the hardware like proxmox. Then you can easily backup vms, take snapshots, and one vm having issues on't affect others.

Awesome advice, Ill be sure to look into Proxmox as I had seen people talk about using those for this type of system in other threads. Appreciate the help.