#eservers

When building a large gaming community, standard hosting simply doesn’t cut it. Games like GTA V (FiveM) and Minecraft rely heavily on high CPU clock speeds and massive amounts of RAM.

To ensure a lag-free experience for hundreds of players, bare-metal dedicated servers are the only choice. Here is how to set up your own high-performance gaming environment on Linux.

Step 1: System Preparation and Dependencies

First, update your server and install screen (which allows your game server to run in the background after you disconnect).

bashCopy sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y sudo apt install screen wget curl git -y

Step 2: Setting Up a Minecraft Java Server

Minecraft is notoriously single-thread heavy. An AMD Ryzen dedicated server is highly recommended here. Install Java:

bashCopy sudo apt install openjdk-21-jre-headless -y

Create a directory, download the server file, and start it:

bashCopy mkdir minecraft_server && cd minecraft_server wget https://piston-data.mojang.com/v1/objects/[LATEST_VERSION_HASH]/server.jar screen -S minecraft java -Xmx16G -Xms16G -jar server.jar nogui

Step 3: Setting Up a FiveM (GTA V) Server

FiveM requires specific artifacts. Create a new directory for your server:

bashCopy mkdir -p ~/fivem_server/server cd ~/fivem_server/server

Download the latest recommended Linux artifact from the FiveM runtime page and extract it:

bashCopy wget [LINK_TO_LATEST_ARTIFACT] tar xf fx.tar.xz

Clone the cfx-server-data repository into a new folder:

bashCopy git clone https://github.com/citizenfx/cfx-server-data.git ~/fivem_server/server-data

You can now configure your server.cfg file and launch your server inside a screen session using bash ~/fivem_server/server/run.sh +exec server.cfg.

Conclusion

Hosting your own game server gives you complete administrative control, modding capabilities, and a stable environment for your players.

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