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- The short answer is: yes, if it is not on an enterprise site.
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- I have hosted numerous servers on old desktop hardware, there is nothing wrong
- with this. Old computers can make excellent file, Minecraft, and web servers.
- However, if you are honestly asking the question “should you run a server on
- desktop hardware” it implies you are running something important. Don’t get me
- wrong, running a Minecraft server is **very** important, however, it is not as
- important as a production web server for a larger company. In that case it is
- better to have an actual server with redundant power supplies and hot swappable
- hard drives.
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- Another factor to seriously consider is your internet speed. When I was in
- seventh grade I ran an apache web server on my old computer. Since I was running
- on DSL, the website loaded like it was 1990. If you need high bandwidth, I would
- recommend you get a VPS at Digital Ocean.
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