sup, i have a question for technical people. I’m thinking of getting a server for self hosting random stuff (minecraft, websites, apis, bots, etc), and I came across this: amazon.com/dp/B081D4P1PS. anyone have any alternatives or does this one look pretty good one for a first one
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If you’re willing to pay ~$300 you can grab an Amazon renewed Dell Poweredge with like 192gb ram, 8TB RAID HDDs, 2 Xeons, etc. Pretty good deal IMO.
that would be crazy op, and if i had that that would be awesome, but I can’t find one even close to 300, most are 2k. do you have any links?
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-PowerEdge-R720-E5-2680-2-70Ghz/dp/B08D3T84LK/ — $300
https://www.amazon.com/PowerEdge-Server-E5-2690-Cores-Renewed/dp/B097S84PPM/ — $400 but has newer CPUs and has SSDs instead of HDDs
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-PowerEdge-R630-Rackmount-Warranty/dp/B07PR12CTL/ — $400, the one I was talking about, it went up in price ig
I’ve been using a 2009 laptop which works alright for my needs but that looks cool
I have the same CPU for my server that's very similar to that PC, I have like 10 (kind of lightweight) containers running and it gets around 10-15% usage, I think it gets up to around 30-50% while running a Paper MC server with a few people on. The RAM may be limiting, I have 40GB and I'm using around 30GB. You should get a second drive that is the same capacity to have redundancy in-case of drive failure (write speeds are limited to the slowest drive in a RAID1 though). You may also want to get another drive for booting off of (even a USB drive is fine for Linux or a hypervisor like Proxmox).Btw, I recommend Proxmox, it's a very good hypervisor for a home server. For price, it seems alright, I got mine for a lot cheaper but it was on clearance and only came with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive.
As long as you invite me to the minecraft server, I think it’s a great idea. (do not take this as financial advice, I just like playing minecraft)
at a quick glance, it seems pretty good, but I can see the RAM being the biggest limiting bottleneck if running a server (if you just have like 10 people on though, it won't be too bad if you just limit Java memory)