Minimum Requirements

[Stubbay]

I've been looking into making my own server, and this would be a first for me, so I'm fuzzy on the details, and can't seem to find them.. One of which is currently: What are the hardware requirements to run a server?

I have an older tower, running Win 10 x64, with an i5 and 4G Ram, and am curious if that is sufficient to run a public server. I assume the GPU is irrelevant for server hosting.

If I'm just blind and missed this answer somewhere, sorry >.<

[Sturm]

More than ample, in my experience the HDD is the most important factor as you'll be taxing that puppy with a lot of reads and writes.

[Uleat]

I wouldn't expect to host a server with a large population with only 4 gb on win 10..

..but, that being said, bandwidth (especially upload) is usually the limiting factor.

[Sturm]

I wouldn't expect to host a server with a large population with only 4 gb on win 10..

..but, that being said, bandwidth (especially upload) is usually the limiting factor.

I wouldn't expect to host a server with a large population period. hahaha

[chrsschb]

I wouldn't expect to host a server with a large population period. hahaha

Ain't that the truth.

[Stubbay]

lol, yeah, outside of p99, the populations are pretty low.

I appreciate all the replies. This helped a lot.

Is Linux a better OS for this type of thing? Any advantages?

[Uleat]

Small servers, whatever you're comfortable with.

[Stubbay]

Small servers, whatever you're comfortable with.

Ok, thanks again!

[Maze_EQ]

4g is sufficient if you use server Core which negated about 2.5gb worth of operating system stuff.

Edit: you said windows 10. nevermind.