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Server Hardware? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by goetzit@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey, I want to dip my feet into self-hosting, but i find the hardware side of things very daunting. I want to self host a Minecraft server (shocking, i know), and i’ve actually done this before both on my own PC and through server hosts. I’d like to run a Plex server as well (Jellyfin is champ now it sounds like? So maybe that instead), but I imagine the Minecraft server is going to be the much more intensive side of things, so if it can handle that, plex/jellyfin will be no issue.

The issue is, I can’t seem to find good resources on the hardware side of building a server. I’m finding it very difficult to “map out” what I need, I don’t want to skimp out and end up with something much less powerful than what I need, but i also don’t want to spend thousands of dollars on something extremely overkill. I looked through the sidebar, but it seems to mostly cover the software side of things. Are there any good resources on this?

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[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

It really kinda depends on what type of Minecraft server you're running. I was running Plex and Minecraft on unRaid with like 16gigs of ram and an i3 8100 and it was fine until I started doing more intense moded Minecraft. The iGPU in Intel processors can handle transcoding really well so it's a pretty good all in one solution. I imagine if you're going to heavily modded Minecraft you could probably get away with a current gen i5 or maybe even i3 if you're on a budget. Looks like the i3 13100 has hyper threading and my old 8100 didn't. Not sure how big of a difference it would make.