I want to make a minecraft server, but I don't have enough money to buy a dedicated one yet, so for the time being I want to host a server on my laptop. I have already portforwarded 25565 on my router so i'm good on that, I just want to know if my laptop is good enough to handle a 8-24 player server. My server will be vanilla, no bukkit or forge or anything else, just good ol' classic vanilla.
Cpu: Intel Quad Core i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
RAM: 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3
Graphics: 2048MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
Download speed: 4mbgs
Upload speed: 1mbss
Is this hardware food enough to run a minecraft server?
Maxwell
Sorry to say this, But You can get away with about 3 players (On at once) without any lag.
Your computer is great for 8-24 players but your download and upload speed is lacking.
You could always start with your computer then move to a host later and have the same map.
The good news is you might be able to get faster speed by getting a wired connection to your router.
Here is a good site to find a good speed that you need.: http://canihostaminecraftserver.com/
One last thing, laptops may not be your best bet on hosting, it would be better to do it on a desktop.
Best of luck to you.
Anthony
Your computer is definitely good enough. But if you are running vanilla, then you can't personally allocate ram to your server. Larger servers need moar ram. For an 8-24 player server I recommend about 1-2 gigabytes of ram, but you can't allocate that on a vanilla server i recommend you take 15 mins to setup a bukkit server and be able to allocate ram. For help, go to
http://wiki.bukkit.org/S…
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