Game server using old hardware

GrandFatMan · October 7, 2018

Hi guys.

So, I have a dedicated server for "The Forest" set up on my main PC, and I don't really want to leave it running 24/7 (especially when im not home as it's watercooled, if it leaks when i'm not here, i'd be furious)

Sod's law and all....

My question is, Is there anyway i can transfer the server and all the saves from the individual players to a new machine? I have some old Dell office PC's laying around that I could probably convert into a server. Would it still need to be the same OS? (WIN 10) Or could i run something like linux? As It was getting to a point where I was just playing with people, but now they may want access to it while i'm unavailable, so keeping it live constantly would be ideal. Also, does the PC need to be "decent" I mean, it's a Dell office pc, ddr2 integrated GPU, ram capacity can be upgraded. Hdd, Core 2duo I believe in one of them.

New to this server malarkey so if anything is a noobish basic question please forgive me.

Thanks

AbsoluteFool · October 9, 2018

On 10/7/2018 at 2:47 PM, GrandFatMan said:

Hi guys.

So, I have a dedicated server for "The Forest" set up on my main PC, and I don't really want to leave it running 24/7 (especially when im not home as it's watercooled, if it leaks when i'm not here, i'd be furious)

Sod's law and all....

My question is, Is there anyway i can transfer the server and all the saves from the individual players to a new machine? I have some old Dell office PC's laying around that I could probably convert into a server. Would it still need to be the same OS? (WIN 10) Or could i run something like linux? As It was getting to a point where I was just playing with people, but now they may want access to it while i'm unavailable, so keeping it live constantly would be ideal. Also, does the PC need to be "decent" I mean, it's a Dell office pc, ddr2 integrated GPU, ram capacity can be upgraded. Hdd, Core 2duo I believe in one of them.

New to this server malarkey so if anything is a noobish basic question please forgive me.

Thanks

The main aspects of game hosting is CPU and RAM, if those are limits you'll have a hard time.

Most game server hosters use high Ghz CPUs like 3Ghz and up, often acompanied with 64+ GB of RAM.

The different games normally have windows/linux features for hosting the dedicated servers, in theory you could swap system however do not quote me on this. I suggest you just try.

as for your hardware. Alot of game servers run great on core 2duo, but this depends on the age of the game. Like if the game is from that era it would work. If it's a never game you'll have problems almost instantly.