Can I host a 12 player tekkit server on a Raspberry Pi Model B with 80Mbps up/down internet?
First off, I'm not sure if this is the right SE site for this question, but...
I want to get a tekkit server but I don't want to spend the money renting it. I have this RPi sitting around not doing anything so I thought setting a server up on it might be a good idea. I was wondering, though, how many players could I have on this server given the specs of the RPi Model B? Could Tekkit main run with 12 players on it? I have Verizon Fios 80Mbps download and 80Mbps upload speed. Should that connection be able to sustain a 12 player Tekkit main server?
Solution 1:
The internet speed is pretty much irrelevant in this case, because the Raspberry Pi is not a powerful computer, it's made for low energy consumption. I have tried to run a regular Vanilla 1.12.2 server on it (Raspberry Pi 3) a while ago and only played on it alone on another PC. I had a lot of block lag, to the point where I would break five blocks before the first one disappeared. I'm not sure what I set the render distance to, probably 2, but even if not (I was in the spawn chunks anyway), there is just not enough power on a Raspberry Pi to properly host a Minecraft server, let alone highly modded.
So the answer to "how many players" is 0. It barely runs without anyone online, not even with 20 tps.