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Finally got a 24/7 server up (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Landless2029@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So I've been playing Icarus with the wife and the optimization is hot garbage. Wife is hosting and pulling 10 fps with a Nvidia 3070TI

We enjoy the game so I start doing research. Turns out once you've played enough the database on the host just gets too big and chokes out the CPU threads since it can't use more than 2 cores.

Answer is to migrate your world to a sepf hosted dedicated server. Say no more.

So now I got an excuse (wife approved) to setup a computer as a server and keep it running. I have an old HP SFF i5 16GB RAM with an SSD I've reimagined a few times for a home server.

Flashed it with Debian and setup the Icarus server in docker. Runs like a champ.

~~Bonus points. I hooked up a wattage meter and it idles at 1~2 watts!
I used to run an old gaming computer as a home server and it felt like $30 a month in electricity.~~

Edit: System idles at 19 watts. I had the meter plugged into the wrong device...

Now I can start throwing more stuff on there once I figure out backup for the game world incase I bork it.

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I eventually intend to start some funny stuff I wanted a full OS for.

If I shift my end goal to run in a container then that would make more sense.

I initially went for Debian because I had a deadline for us to get back to gaming together.

I've seen loads of people use proxmax. As a windows admin I wanted a OS as a stepping stone.

I run Brazzite on my gaming rig and mint on my daily driver laptop now. Getting there.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago

Honestly I left proxmox/virtualization OSes a while back for simple RHEL. I have Docker for most everything and the few things I need full virt for the features Cockpit provides are more than enough. If I ever get back into clustering I'll look at proxmox again.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you want a webui for the debian server that gives you logs, services, ssh terminal and more then I can recommend checking out Cockpit
https://cockpit-project.org/

If you decide you want to you can install KVM/Qemu on the debian host to get into full virtualization that way. The webui can be used to configure and manage the VMs too with https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines

edit: Cockpit also has a Docker manager, though I feel it isn't full featured yet. I mostly used it to stop and start dockers from my phone.
https://github.com/chrisjbawden/cockpit-dockermanager

[–] adeoxymus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Totally fair. I also started with Debian for a Minecraft server, at the request of my partner. I might try out Icarus, is it cross platform?

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not sure if it's cross platform. We've been having lots of fun with it.

Its interesting in the sense that one person can buy all the content and additional players can just buy the base game and join a "unlocked" server to enjoy everything.

I've seen similar pricing models and it's kind of expensive but evens out the more people play with you.

I find it funny that advanced tech is explained away by you getting support from outer space. Vs games like Ark where you just magically know how to mess with electrical systems.

Starting with stone weapons is annoying but you can earn credits in game to start with 3D printed weapons/tools as you hop maps.