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Does A MineCraft server kill your computer's RAM or bandwidth?

xHallucinationx

xHallucinationx

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I've decided I'd make a server for me and my friends to play on because they're too cheap and stupid to pay for Minecraft, So I basically had to make one. Does running a MC server take up lots of ram or bandwidth? I'd like to know before setting it up and searching for hours how to kill it.
 
Aetherrack

Aetherrack

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Gurw is pretty much standing over my shoulder telling me what to type here.
TheGurw said:
A Minecraft server takes up both RAM and bandwidth. Also, there are a lot of bugs, for example I know of a bug that hard-stops the server when you open a Blu-Ray R/W drive on the tower. You would be better off getting a virtual machine or a dedicated server through a well-established company.

However, if you decide to go ahead with it on your own machine, the suggested RAM to set aside for it is 1GB for every 20 players. If you want to include Bukkit, the suggested RAM starts at 1GB/10 players and goes up the more plugins you add. As for bandwidth, to be honest it will completely depend on your traffic. For about 5 players spending 2-3 hours/day on a Vanilla server, you'll use about 25 GB/month. Bukkit servers will, again, make that amount rise dramatically.

As for killing the server, just type
Code: 
stop
into the server console, and it's done. You may want to delete the files afterwards as well, and if you have any 3rd-party querying set up (server status websites and widgets) you should unsubscribe from those as well.

Hope this helps, even if it is a little bit late. Maybe someone else will find it useful!
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Clayto1332

Clayto1332

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His server was really laggy to and from the way he talked he knew what he was doing... May have been spotty internet.
 
RemOfShadows

RemOfShadows

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just use bukkit and some tutorial, ran fine on my craptastic desktop and killing it is as easy as pressing that pretty "X" button you have at the top right of your screen :D
 
RemOfShadows

RemOfShadows

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xHallucinationx said:
way to bring up a dead thread.
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oh snap, well there's the first time for everyone :D
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Aetherrack

Aetherrack

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Clayto1332 said:
His server was really laggy to and from the way he talked he knew what he was doing... May have been spotty internet.
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Gurw used to run his server off of his PC, the lag was virtually non-existent for either of us. Pretty much all of the lag is due to the crappy internet we have.

He's got a hosted VDS now in Seattle, much, much faster. Runs on InterNAP (whatever the hell that means, Gurw says it's fast).
 
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