Self-hosting a permanent server, minimum requirements?

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    VFX Pro Well-Known Member AMS2 Club Member

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    Low ping North American servers are pretty rare at the moment; thus, I often find myself either in a UK or Brazil hosted servers. I'd like to spin up a permanent server at home (fast 1 Gb down/up connection), but I don't know what the minimum requirements are. I have a spare Microsoft Surface with no GPU, is that good enough? Do I need a more powerful machine?

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    I run 2 dedicated servers on a 1st gen i7 cpu, gpu spec is not important, since its not rendering anything, and network and cpu usage from what i can see is not much as well, so i think you should be fine
     
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    a gpu isnt just for rendering. she's generally very good at doing complicated precise floating point calculations faster than a cpu.
    but the dedi server doesnt seem todo alot of calculations, i doubt its doing any physics at all tbh. all the stuff seems to be simulated by the client itself, most of it is just inter- and extrapolation of data between updates
    seems more like just a relay to recieve and forward informations about the clients.

    so ye u should be able to run the dedi on a crap cpu just as well, aslong as the bandwidth is there
     
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