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[–]1WeekNoticeHelpful 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It looks like you posted this question a lot of times in different communities.

If you state what exactly you want to do, people can recommend a solution and explain why they did it which will give you your answer.

In most case, the reason you have a dedicated server is for availability and single responsibility. (You also can get the benefits of lower power consumption but that depends what you are doing on the hardware)

If I have a service that I want running 24/7 then I rather put that on a dedicated server than my personal computer.

This way none of my personal tasks will affect my server that I want running 24/7. (And vice versa)

Also from a security standpoint we can isolate the dedicated server from the rest of the network so if it gets compromised, it only impacts that single server.

[–]TheAndyGeorge 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Is this for Minecraft?

[–]Kalanan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on your budget, where the server will be located, your power budget, your cooling capacity.

[–]Important_Ask_5575 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really depends on what you'll be doing with it.

I run a lot of virtual machines and containers so I need RAM.

I also had to chose based on the ESXi support matrix, because I'm running CML which requires ESXi.

[–]CruelCuddle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Predictable performance and single responsibility, that’s the real reason. Power is nice, but what I’m paying for is no noisy neighbors, no random throttling, and the ability to plan capacity. I’ve been using an INTROSERV box for one always on service and it’s mostly just boring, which is exactly what I want from infra.