Hello,

I am hosting a shared Minecraft server (10-15 users usually) on dedicated hardware somewhere at OVH. I am considering moving this server to my home. I would save 25$ per month doing this, which would be my main motivation.

I am aware of other considerations (I’ll mention them later) but maybe I am missing something? Is there anyone who did the reverse (hosting a service with multiple users, moving them from your home to a hosting company) and what was your reason

Things I already considered:

  • when my electricity/connection goes down the server goes down (that’s ok it’s just a game and my connection has always been very very stable)
  • hosting at home eats bandwidth (I have 50mbit which is way more than I use, I don’t stream or download much)
  • electricity costs money too
  • when the server is compromised my home network is compromised (handling servers and networks is my hobby and my job, I think I can make it safe)

Thank you for your thoughts!

  • driverdone@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If the hardware breaks, you’ll have to replace it. Although that might be the same in your current solution, don’t know if you’re just renting space for your own hardware or if you’re renting.

  • mrmojo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The main consideration I believe is missing is the cost of the hardware where you will be hosting the server. Maybe you have a old computer lying around, in that case its not an issue of course. By the way 25$ per month seems a bit expensive, there are probably cheaper alternatives, just for the sake of comparison.

    • RagingToad@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For a VPS it is expensive, but this is dedicated hardware. A Minecraft server needs a decent CPU (not many cores) and is memory hungry, so a minimum of 16GB. Needs decent ping all over the world.

      Because of the last requirement I considered ovhcloud and hetzner and this one is still relatively cheap?

  • Lucky@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    What is your upload speed? Many ISPs give you 50 download but <5 upload, that would be a huge bottleneck

    The biggest issue is security though. Unless you’re setting up a VPN that only works when you set up a secured client on each device, I wouldn’t trust that server to have access anywhere on the network. I would strongly recommend against opening any ports on your firewall as well. Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnels are popular for homelabs that might be useful here and free for your use case

  • tarneo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    If you don’t mind around 4 hours of downtime per month (for now) I could host it for you at renn.es (contact info is there, just send us an email and we’ll send you an invite to a matrix room or something). We basically have a great server with nothing on it, so having one more service running wouldn’t really have any impact (we have 2-3 gigs of ram usage avg. out of 32).

    EDIT: the server is in france with 6gbps down and 2 gigs up