Dedicated server for home use?

[Bojanglez]

hey all -

I am having a blast with a home server but want to move it to a dedicated machine. I have a super old PC (7-8 years) that I've been using as file storage but was thinking grabbing one of these as I'm sure it'll run it find, but is it complete overkill? Do I need 16GB or would 8GB suffice?

thanks in advance!

 

[Aeryna]

That's like an i5-4460 in performance. It doesn't sound so bad to me. It's pretty simple but for the price (i don't know), couldn't you get something more powerful? I'm not sure it's able to handle too many players at once... I don't know its ability to manage work peaks or multiple connections at once.

Also, if you do such a thing you must protect your home well, once it is open to the world.
Finally I don't think it's a good idea to use your personal IP, ports and computer for these purposes but everyone should do what they think best.

Maybe some other user more experienced in this thread of mini-PCs can add something.

 

[Bojanglez]

That's like an i5-4460 in performance. It doesn't sound so bad to me. It's pretty simple but for the price (i don't know), couldn't you get something more powerful? I'm not sure it's able to handle too many players at once... I don't know its ability to manage work peaks or multiple connections at once.

Also, if you do such a thing you must protect your home well, once it is open to the world.
Finally I don't think it's a good idea to use your personal IP, ports and computer for these purposes but everyone should do what they think best.

Maybe some other user more experienced in this thread of mini-PCs can add something.

thank you for the reply!

To be super clear, this is very much a private, home server that is just for me and my kids and won't be open to the public. Even if they had a friend join us, I can't see this getting beyond 5-6 players connecting simultaneously, with maybe 8-10 characters running around in total. I guess I will find out pretty quickly if this can handle that load, but I think it's beefier than the laptop I currently have this running on.

Thanks again!