Hello,
I am hosting a shared Minecraft server (10-15 users usually) on dedicated hardware somewhere at OVH. I am considering moving this server to my home. I would save 25$ per month doing this, which would be my main motivation.
I am aware of other considerations (I’ll mention them later) but maybe I am missing something? Is there anyone who did the reverse (hosting a service with multiple users, moving them from your home to a hosting company) and what was your reason
Things I already considered:
- when my electricity/connection goes down the server goes down (that’s ok it’s just a game and my connection has always been very very stable)
- hosting at home eats bandwidth (I have 50mbit which is way more than I use, I don’t stream or download much)
- electricity costs money too
- when the server is compromised my home network is compromised (handling servers and networks is my hobby and my job, I think I can make it safe)
Thank you for your thoughts!
What is your upload speed? Many ISPs give you 50 download but <5 upload, that would be a huge bottleneck
The biggest issue is security though. Unless you’re setting up a VPN that only works when you set up a secured client on each device, I wouldn’t trust that server to have access anywhere on the network. I would strongly recommend against opening any ports on your firewall as well. Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnels are popular for homelabs that might be useful here and free for your use case
If you don’t mind around 4 hours of downtime per month (for now) I could host it for you at renn.es (contact info is there, just send us an email and we’ll send you an invite to a matrix room or something). We basically have a great server with nothing on it, so having one more service running wouldn’t really have any impact (we have 2-3 gigs of ram usage avg. out of 32).
EDIT: the server is in france with 6gbps down and 2 gigs up
Thank you for the offer but I like the idea of having my hardware too :-)
