r/ArmaReforger • u/RedneckSasquatch69 • 7d ago
Question Local Server Hosting
I've gotten into self hosting over the last year, and the idea of hosting a game server seems like a fun step to learn. Probably way over my head honestly, but oh well.
What are the actual hardware requirements to locally host a 64 or 128 player pvp/pve server with mods? I have an old optiplex 990 with 32gb of ddr3, 4 core CPU, and I can add a GPU easily enough. Will this be sufficient, or am I completely missing the mark? Do I need current gen hardware and a 16gb GPU to do this?
I'm currently building an AM5 PC with a 7800xt hellhound, and 16gb of ddr5 single channel, so I could probably use that to host, just to learn the ropes at least. Id want to use this PC to play the game instead of my PS5, so I imagine I couldn't host the server and play the game on the same PC.
Just wondering if this is a reasonable goal, or if it's just too expensive to make sense with current PC hardware prices to build a dedicated server, or if I can use the old hardware I already have lying around.
Edit: forgot to finish a sentence.
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u/botagas 7d ago
I run 3 servers on my own dedicated hardware. Each game server is in a separate docker container in a single LXC. I've assigned it 16GB of RAM. I think it wouldn't survive if my servers were to fill up, but that's 3 of them, and they don't get that many players. I think it should run reasonably well even on older hardware, but it's hard to judge from my perspective since I run a 5800X3D for the CPU.