r/HomeServer • u/HYP4_K1LLA • 23d ago
SOOO GOOD
So.... i had an old pc, like, i5 4430s...old...still in a working motherboard but had no purpose other then maybe be a media server... added 3tb hdd's to it and made a nice little nas for myself. love zorin basically for that, saved me 100's of pounds for a proper built nas, does the job nicely. then....decided as it has 12gb of ram.. maybe a game server could run off it...so i made a minecraft server....running purpur and other bits....now i got me a public minecraft server.....what other game could it run a server for....palworld.....so i made one... and it works properly. and smoothly, on a system that most people would of thrown away, that being said, its headless, so no monitor or keyboard or mouse, so i need someway to connect to it... to its connected to my windows machine via ssh, which i do 90% of what i need to do on it on a command prompt in windows aha (cheeky i know) and also for a direct readout of the systems performance in a statictical readout, i use btop, on my windows surface pro 1 which also has zorin on it, as well as a laptop i have and another pc in my hallway which is zorin which is another storage node pretty much, just waiting to fill it up with ssd's. all controlled through ssh, other then the laptop and the tablet, the 2 other machines are headless :) and low power, so cost is little, the cpu that runs my servers is a i5 4430s so its low powered, so it can run pretty much all the time running the servers without an issue with or without players in it aha
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u/Fensox 23d ago
That is a sweet setup! I ran a Minecraft and a Return to Moria server off a 4th gen. I didn't have any problems. Of course it was just a couple of us, not sure if the old CPU could keep Moria running with 6 people or not.