about us
Currently have 190GB worth of deployable DDR4 ECC memory.
Originally starting out with an EliteDesk G2 800 equipped with 16GB RAM, we've now grown to a staggering 174GB worth of self-hosted goodness.
Here's the timeline:
Between June and August, this website was created. Shortly after that, I decided to build a new PC dedicated to being hosted as a server due to CPU instability with the existing i7 6700 being slow on Palworld when too many
containers were run at once. It costed ~600-800 AUD at the time. This was built with hot-swappability in mind - i can turn it into my main gaming rig at any time. (foreshadowing)
In September, I started running the EliteDesk alongside the i5 14600k server, mainly for Minecraft. At this time, both servers were running Proxmox with the i5 14600k server having 2 VMs (1 Debian and 1 Window) since I was travelling a lot at the time I needed to use AnyDesk/RustDesk to login my server externally. SSD was passthroughed after long trial and error process. I was also able to add more nodes to the Pterodactyl Server during this time since I had 2 machines.
During November, I decided to switch out my i5 14600k for my i5 12400f, but since I couldn't be bothered taking off the CPU coolers off, I just replaced entire motherboards. At this time the server only had 2 ram slots so it had a total capacity of 32GB (2x16). I also stopped using Proxmox for the main server machine and gave up on trying to set up a RAID1 Storage System for server files as I deemed it not important anymore (as people can download their own backups during night time). During this month, more game servers were needed so juggling RAM between each game server was difficult.
On December 23rd 2025 I built a new server with the Huananzhi x99 F8 motherboard, which has 8 ram slots. I populated 7 with 16GB DDR4 Micron 2133 Mhz sticks, totalling up to 110GB. Theoretically, my entire server infrastructure is capable of 190GB if accounting a spare PC with 16GB and the 64GB (4x16) that the EliteDesk can now take. However I doubt I will surpass 110GB worth of RAM anytime soon.
Originally starting out with an EliteDesk G2 800 equipped with 16GB RAM, we've now grown to a staggering 174GB worth of self-hosted goodness.
Here's the timeline:
Between June and August, this website was created. Shortly after that, I decided to build a new PC dedicated to being hosted as a server due to CPU instability with the existing i7 6700 being slow on Palworld when too many
containers were run at once. It costed ~600-800 AUD at the time. This was built with hot-swappability in mind - i can turn it into my main gaming rig at any time. (foreshadowing)
In September, I started running the EliteDesk alongside the i5 14600k server, mainly for Minecraft. At this time, both servers were running Proxmox with the i5 14600k server having 2 VMs (1 Debian and 1 Window) since I was travelling a lot at the time I needed to use AnyDesk/RustDesk to login my server externally. SSD was passthroughed after long trial and error process. I was also able to add more nodes to the Pterodactyl Server during this time since I had 2 machines.
During November, I decided to switch out my i5 14600k for my i5 12400f, but since I couldn't be bothered taking off the CPU coolers off, I just replaced entire motherboards. At this time the server only had 2 ram slots so it had a total capacity of 32GB (2x16). I also stopped using Proxmox for the main server machine and gave up on trying to set up a RAID1 Storage System for server files as I deemed it not important anymore (as people can download their own backups during night time). During this month, more game servers were needed so juggling RAM between each game server was difficult.
On December 23rd 2025 I built a new server with the Huananzhi x99 F8 motherboard, which has 8 ram slots. I populated 7 with 16GB DDR4 Micron 2133 Mhz sticks, totalling up to 110GB. Theoretically, my entire server infrastructure is capable of 190GB if accounting a spare PC with 16GB and the 64GB (4x16) that the EliteDesk can now take. However I doubt I will surpass 110GB worth of RAM anytime soon.