Building a Server

[Squirrel with Nunchucks]

Well sorta. I just built myself a new gaming rig, and I now have a decent computer just lying around. I was thinking of turning this into a server and hosting TF2 on it. However, I'd like some tips on servers, cause I honestly have no idea what kind of hardware I should have before I try this. Help would be much appreciated.

 

[Zachary]

We have a nifty file server in our computer repair class. It's pretty useful for backing up stuff. For your game server, I would say look at the requirements for the server software and see if that PC is capable of running it. I'm not sure, because we don't have a game server or anything like that. Plus, I don't even know what he has used to build the server that were using. Good luck! Tell us how it works out.

Edit: I think cooling would probably be a thing to look into. And maybe do that RAID thing that I have heard about. Apparently, you can save your data if one of the hdd's go bad. Not sure about it though. Anyone care to explain that?

 

[Bacon Boy]

You'd need a strong internet and somewhat of a lot of bandwidth before you go any further.

 

[Squirrel with Nunchucks]

We have a nifty file server in our computer repair class. It's pretty useful for backing up stuff. For your game server, I would say look at the requirements for the server software and see if that PC is capable of running it. I'm not sure, because we don't have a game server or anything like that. Plus, I don't even know what he has used to build the server that were using. Good luck! Tell us how it works out.

Edit: I think cooling would probably be a thing to look into. And maybe do that RAID thing that I have heard about. Apparently, you can save your data if one of the hdd's go bad. Not sure about it though. Anyone care to explain that?

RAID is when you use a speciall kind of card to lnk to hard drives together so they act like one.