

He also uses Proxmox to self-host a variety of services, including a Jellyfin Media Server, an Airsonic music server, a handful of game servers, NextCloud, and two Windows virtual machines. He has been running video game servers from home for more than 10 years using Windows, Ubuntu, or Raspberry Pi OS. Nick's love of tinkering with computers extends beyond work. In college, Nick made extensive use of Fortran while pursuing a physics degree. Before How-To Geek, he used Python and C++ as a freelance programmer. He has been using computers for 20 years - tinkering with everything from the UI to the Windows registry to device firmware. Nick Lewis is a staff writer for How-To Geek. RAM requirements tend to grow the fastest with additional players - large servers can readily utilize more than 20 GB of RAM. The more players you add, the more your CPU, RAM, and storage demands will grow.

50 GB of SSD storage space for short-term backups, and as much extra as possible for long-term backups.

