It never really dawned on my to use some of that idle grunt to send video game streams out to YouTube or Twitch.

I do get a fair bit of spam, but even that doesn’t really challenge a newer Xeon. Low traffic web servers like mine take up nearly no CPU load. With its two 8-core Xeon processors, it’s got quite a lot of grunt that goes mostly unused throughout the day. This server is one that I use for my web pages (like this one), my email, DNS, and various other services. I Have a Server…īack in December of 2015, I documented rebuilding the server I have in my basement.

However, I don’t have to wait that long or spend that kind of money. The conclusion that I came to was that I was going to continue streaming to my YouTube channel until I decide to buy and assemble another PC specifically for Twitch streaming. In a previous entry I discussed the differences in streaming game play to YouTube vs Twitch, as well as the differences between using hardware versus software h.264 encoding.

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