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bandwidth usage of a minecraft hosting ?
Hello everyone ,
I am thinking of starting a Minecraft host but i have few questions if someone here can help me regarding the same. How much bandwidth will one server with the following specs would consume:
Server1:
E3-1275v3
32 GB Ram
2x 500GB SSD (Raid 1)
Server2:
E5-1650v3
64GB Ram
6x 240GB SSD (RAID 10)
I have a lot of experience in hosting servers but i have never cared about the bandwidth as i use to rent the servers.
I know that it does't fully depends on specs but i just need an idea.
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Some say that you need at least 0.3Mbps both Up and Down for each player. You could try doing some calculations based on this number but I can't confirm that it's the truth.
Thank you @LaXiS ! Looking for more a proper answer , anyone ?
Cheers
Well then look at the last post of this thread for some experimental data: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/archive/legacy-support/1837102-server-bandwidth-per-user
Need more information , thank you.
Minecraft doesn't use much bandwidth to be totally honest.
64 days of uptime (2x medium sized servers, nightly backups on each (compressed maps, uncompressed SQL databases)):
RX bytes:100731884727 (93.8 GiB) TX bytes:946404648724 (881.4 GiB)
I pinged one of my friend who's running a Minecraft server. His replies were around 700GB per month.
@matthewvz How many average players online ? Thanks for the information mate.
@sdglhm is it posible if u can ask your friend what is the average player base ?
He said it's vary. Because not all of the players are very active. But usually it's around 50 or something. He said he cannot be sure about that.
When I ran a 50~ player server we were using around 1TB a month, that included a website and TS3 server. so your 700Gb is accurate.
I would reccomend 1TB per 50 players, as many hosts do 10TB+ you'll be fine.