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/u/DryWay339
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Hey all! I'm in the infra business and was thinking about grabbing some AMD Ryzens (older, probably DDR4 memory) and getting those racked. I would love to get into game hosting (specifically Minecraft), but I'm unsure if it's worth trying (key word here) to get that off the ground; so, I wanted to post a couple of questions here:
Firstly, do most game hosting providers run their own infra? The goal would be to find someone to partner with on this who has an existing platform or platform experience, but I'm not sure if game providers even want to partner with a bare metal provider... Like if most of the income / upside comes from owning the gear (clearly I don't know the margins here, apologies).
Secondly, what's the desirable gear? I assume latency and high clock speeds are wildly important, but what about disk space and ram? My first assumption is Ryzen chip with something like 128GB DDR4 RAM and 2x1TB disks with a mirrored setup would do fine, but please correct me if this assumption is wrong. Also, are 10G ports needed, or are 1G ports usually used? I guess this depends on the size of the servers and the amount of tenants, but figured now would be the time to ask.
Thank ya!
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Firstly, do most game hosting providers run their own infra? The goal would be to find someone to partner with on this who has an existing platform or platform experience, but I'm not sure if game providers even want to partner with a bare metal provider... Like if most of the income / upside comes from owning the gear (clearly I don't know the margins here, apologies).
Secondly, what's the desirable gear? I assume latency and high clock speeds are wildly important, but what about disk space and ram? My first assumption is Ryzen chip with something like 128GB DDR4 RAM and 2x1TB disks with a mirrored setup would do fine, but please correct me if this assumption is wrong. Also, are 10G ports needed, or are 1G ports usually used? I guess this depends on the size of the servers and the amount of tenants, but figured now would be the time to ask.
Thank ya!
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