Minecraft Server Limits?

[Olivertheguy]

Hi, I am looking to make a new business that has minecraft servers in it. I know minecraft servers are single threaded, what I want to know is if you get the internet bandwidth and a server with enough memory, could you thereticay (ignoring the single threaded limits) have a 100,000 player server? Or would you have to re design the server program? Don't ask why I would want to do this, but just know that if I get investment in my business, it will be a real game change for YouTubers who do minecraft

 

Thanks

[Enderman]

minecraft servers use 4 threads

if you want to have more than 100 players on a single server you should use bukkit or one of the custom coded c++ MC servers

 

also its not possible to have 100000 players on a single server

you will need to have thousands of lobbies running on separate servers to even handle that many players because its not possible for a single machine

 

the most players on a single MC server ever was a little over 2000, and this was obviously custom coded

[Sir Asvald]

Hi, I am looking to make a new business that has minecraft servers in it. I know minecraft servers are single threaded, what I want to know is if you get the internet bandwidth and a server with enough memory, could you thereticay (ignoring the single threaded limits) have a 100,000 player server? Or would you have to re design the server program? Don't ask why I would want to do this, but just know that if I get investment in my business, it will be a real game change for YouTubers who do minecraft

 

Thanks

You can have a cluster servers together to make one whole big server. 

[Olivertheguy]

minecraft servers use 4 threads

if you want to have more than 100 players on a single server you should use bukkit or one of the custom coded c++ MC servers

 

also its not possible to have 100000 players on a single server

you will need to have thousands of lobbies running on separate servers to even handle that many players because its not possible for a single machine

 

the most players on a single MC server ever was a little over 2000, and this was obviously custom coded

 

So, ignoring all physical hardware limits, there would be no way of having 2000 players+ on a single server map? 

[Olivertheguy]

minecraft servers use 4 threads

if you want to have more than 100 players on a single server you should use bukkit or one of the custom coded c++ MC servers

 

also its not possible to have 100000 players on a single server

you will need to have thousands of lobbies running on separate servers to even handle that many players because its not possible for a single machine

 

the most players on a single MC server ever was a little over 2000, and this was obviously custom coded

 

So, ignoring all physical hardware limits, there would be no way of having 2000 players+ on a single server map? 

[Olivertheguy]

minecraft servers use 4 threads

if you want to have more than 100 players on a single server you should use bukkit or one of the custom coded c++ MC servers

 

also its not possible to have 100000 players on a single server

you will need to have thousands of lobbies running on separate servers to even handle that many players because its not possible for a single machine

 

the most players on a single MC server ever was a little over 2000, and this was obviously custom coded

 

So, ignoring all physical hardware limits, there would be no way of having 2000 players+ on a single server map? 

[Atmos]

So, ignoring all physical hardware limits, there would be no way of having 2000 players+ on a single server map? 

2000+, Hell 500+ on the vanilla server program, No.

2000+ on a custom coded server program running a variable of a custom game engine, perhaps. But the core engine wasn't meant to handle anywhere near that many player entities. It's like trying to force-feed a person 1 metric ton of steaks with a single fork, both the person can't handle it, and the apparatus to force feed them with can't handle it either. The software, and hardware ends cannot handle it.

[Olivertheguy]

minecraft servers use 4 threads

if you want to have more than 100 players on a single server you should use bukkit or one of the custom coded c++ MC servers

 

also its not possible to have 100000 players on a single server

you will need to have thousands of lobbies running on separate servers to even handle that many players because its not possible for a single machine

 

the most players on a single MC server ever was a little over 2000, and this was obviously custom coded

 

So, ignoring all physical hardware limits, there would be no way of having 2000 players+ on a single server map? 

[Enderman]

So, ignoring all physical hardware limits, there would be no way of having 2000 players+ on a single server map? 

no

even if you had a supercomputer you would not be able to have 100000 player on a single server

even a c or c++ server would nt be able to handle that many concurrent connections

 

also think about what would happen if a client is trying to render 100000 moving players

you need to think about what a normal persons computer can handle too

[xQubeZx]

You could use a heavily modded server software like spigot, i also think that one is able to use more threads too. But for a 100,000 you will need several servers that are custom coded to work with eachother