New home game server!
A while back I watched a YouTube video on setting up a game server using AMP. It’s commercial software, but the youtuber (which one it was escapes me, and I don’t feel like sifting through my YT history) hit on exactly my problem with the FOSS ones - you can either pay a little bit of money, or you can pay in hours fucking about. Every time I’ve tried the several different FOSS game server panels, I’ve ended up throwing them in the bin and spinning up my own Docker containers.
But my goal in this one is to get Duncan and Sabriena to use it, as the process is such a pain in the arse that they pretty much just rent a Minecraft server for a month when they want to play (it’s never more than a month). Given the cost of the license for AMP, one month of a decently sized server would pay for it easily.
So I bought the license, then set it up on a little Ryzen 1200 box we had spare. The results weren’t great, the server just wasn’t really strong enough. Enter: the parts left over from upgrading Sabriena’s machine.
I stole the RAM out the Ryzen machine, put it in this one, which pushed it to 32GB. For single-core performance the 7700k overclocked to a modest 4.8GHz will eat the Ryzen 1200 alive (probably a good 50% faster, not counting the overclock and any first-gen Ryzen fuckery) and it’ll idle-down to lower power consumption as well I think.
The results? No idea yet, they haven’t played Minecraft since. I’ve spun up a few things myself temporarily though, like a Satisfactory server, and a Valheim server, and haven’t really had any complaints. I did have issues with the Ryzen server apparently locking up with AMP installed, I’ve had no such issues with the Intel one.
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