{"id":11599,"date":"2011-05-09T06:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2011-05-09T06:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:43:43","slug":"twentymine-server-hardware-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11599","title":{"rendered":"TwentyMine Server: Hardware Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You may remember that our Twenty Sided Minecraft server is down<\/a>. Curses!<\/p>\n

Minecraft servers need two things:<\/p>\n

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  1. A machine with lots of upstream bandwidth. The server pumps out an unbelievable volume of information. No really. It’s ridiculous. Get four people in there just wandering around and checking out new regions and find out how fast you run out of outgoing bandwidth. According to Clint, “The Minecraft server uses about 400GB of transfer per month, and needs roughly a 4 or 5 megabit upload speed to be lag-free.”\n<\/li>\n
  2. Hardware. The hardware requirements of a Minecraft server are so strange. It’s very much a big iron situation, where you need a decent machine but not really a cutting-edge machine. You need memory and CPU, but you don’t need graphics hardware. This is a freight train, not a racecar.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Clint has secured us #1. He’s procured a line with lots of available bandwidth for the very reasonable price of $free. The connection is at MIT, which increases the risk of having the server become a sentient robot with the mind of a creeper, so there’s that. But it’s free… so. Now all we need is a machine. <\/p>\n

    Clint was talking about putting up the Twentymine PayPal button again. The nice thing here is that this would be a one-time drive. Once we have the machine up, there should be no further costs. However, someone might be able to provide a machine outright. So, I’m going to put the PayPal button here, and we’ll see where the discussion takes us. A reminder that this PayPal goes directly to Clint and is used exclusively for funding the server. I never see the money, and as far as anyone knows Clint isn’t using it to build himself an army of assassin droids. <\/p>\n

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    You may remember that our Twenty Sided Minecraft server is down. Curses! Minecraft servers need two things: A machine with lots of upstream bandwidth. The server pumps out an unbelievable volume of information. No really. It’s ridiculous. Get four people in there just wandering around and checking out new regions and find out how fast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}