Server Help

[fowfox]

Hi, this is probably going to sound incredibly stupid but i want to know some information about server stuff. I'm wanting to host a few services through a home built server (probably an spare PC) : Teamspeak server, game servers, Website. I also want some sort of mass storage on it for local storage. Can anyone please tell me some minimum specs and then recommended specs. Price isnt relevant just rough specs.

 

Thank you in advance.

Fowfox

[failblox]

It depends on how many people you're going to be hosting for.

[BOT Edward]

I can probably help you a bit.

Having a web server is difficult as you will only be able to support a small number of users (about 5-10) before your site crashes. There is a lot of $$ in infrastructure to keep sites live, using several proxy servers and several live servers being load-balanced.

 

as for game server, you are looking at some serious hardware, multi-processor at the very least.

 

TS server is simple and you could have a simple quad core that can host a TS server for about 20 people.

 

your biggest bottleneck will be your connection.

if you are using a standard ADSL2+ connection than you will have issues with bandwidth and will need to setup QoS on your modem/router and also understand some basic networking to use multiple subnets (one for local internal traffic, one for servers, another for a possible honeypot to prevent attacks).

 

Not to mention you will need a static IPv4 address which most ISP dont provide, or you will need to use dynamicDNS and that will get pretty expensive if you are running the services that are constantly being pinged.

 

 

You will be better off paying a hosting company dude

[scottyseng]

8 hours ago, fowfox said:

Hi, this is probably going to sound incredibly stupid but i want to know some information about server stuff. I'm wanting to host a few services through a home built server (probably an spare PC) : Teamspeak server, game servers, Website. I also want some sort of mass storage on it for local storage. Can anyone please tell me some minimum specs and then recommended specs. Price isnt relevant just rough specs.

 

Thank you in advance.

Fowfox

You need to consider the ISP first. Usually all residential ISPs will ban the use of servers on their service (They want you to get a business class plan). If you get caught with a full blown server that's hosting websites, be prepared to face the fines that come with it (They usually trace you by the excessive bandwidth use from a server). Also, you need a static address as mentioned above, which is usually only available to business class plans.

 

I personally just pay hosting for my website, I'd rather have professionals handle it than me screw it up (Though I only use my hosting for my portfolio website).

[gamerking]

On 6/6/2016 at 11:20 PM, fowfox said:

Hi, this is probably going to sound incredibly stupid but i want to know some information about server stuff. I'm wanting to host a few services through a home built server (probably an spare PC) : Teamspeak server, game servers, Website. I also want some sort of mass storage on it for local storage. Can anyone please tell me some minimum specs and then recommended specs. Price isnt relevant just rough specs.

 

Thank you in advance.

Fowfox

teamspeak uses nearly null for cpu ram ect you just need a good connection , game servers which games ?

website for a few people to get to or for a business . if the second one it ant cheap the server then . i gave up trying to buy a used server . either they are extremely over priced , striped of everything , or the parts you would need to use one the drive sleds are stupid pricey.

how many cpus you looking for ? # of cores ?

number or drives in the system ?

 

i am building just a cheap 300$ amd nas .

 

as scottyseng said if the isp catches you it ant fun i had the problem well my parents did when i was little our connection was throttled to nothing till we switched from that isp  . if you have no data cap plan there are ways around tricking your isp message me for the details since nothing illegal just a bit of a sneaky way of doing it not at vpn or encrypting the data anymore then it normal would   . will put the short version here  its just transferring massive amounts of trash data for months before you have your server working then kill the crap data and isp knows no better .

 

 

17 hours ago, scottyseng said:

You need to consider the ISP first. Usually all residential ISPs will ban the use of servers on their service (They want you to get a business class plan). If you get caught with a full blown server that's hosting websites, be prepared to face the fines that come with it (They usually trace you by the excessive bandwidth use from a server). Also, you need a static address as mentioned above, which is usually only available to business class plans.

 

I personally just pay hosting for my website, I'd rather have professionals handle it than me screw it up (Though I only use my hosting for my portfolio website).

for the static IP i have the option to use one and im not on a business plan i do pay out the nose for internet but i have fiber 150mbps.  you can also use dynamic dns server or  ever its called i have one for my security cameras MVR too lazy too look up its name

[Cruorzy]

Teamspeak server on a simple quadcore? website's 5-10 users?

 

You are kind of miss informed about what for hardware you need for simple servers..

 

Teamspeak uses litterly nothing specially if you dont play with the codecs, Webserver depends you did not ask if its going to be a simple HTML or something more advanced website.

Code good enough and it can easly run, for static (html) pages you should use Nginx and let the computers cache alot.

 

Then for gameservers, it depends what games you got to be more specific here.

 

Anyways to start i would hire somewhere some linux server, so you can get something of a understanding.