So I picked up classic World of Warcraft CDs the other day, never played it till now and I REALLY love it. When I found out I could patch my realmlist.wtf file to connect to third party servers, I suddenly had the idea "What if I made my OWN private WoW server so me and my school buddies could play together?" And so, that's exactly what I did.

I set this up using a server "emulator", as they call it, called MaNGOS, and I built it from the source code and setup MariaDB and all that jazz so now I have a full on WoW client and server running on my Debian Linux laptop.

While on the topic of WoW: https://files.catbox.moe/py95jo.mp4
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I set this up using a server "emulator", as they call it, called MaNGOS,
and I built it from the source code and setup MariaDB and all that jazz
so now I have a full on WoW client and server running on my Debian Linux laptop.

While on the topic of WoW: https://files.catbox.moe/py95jo.mp4

How much memory and cpu would be required for such a server. I love setting different ones up. This bbs is on a Debian machine which has 32 g of ram. Not enough for Wow i'd imagine.

Mickey
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Re: Re: Making a WoW server
By: Mickey to Metal on Sun Mar 01 2026 07:57 pm

At the minimum, about 4 GB of RAM and a 4 core CPU. You can prob get a little lower than that but I wouldn't reccomend it. You surprisingly don't need that much to run a WoW server. Could be because I'm running a Classic WoW server for 1.12.x clients but eh, good enough. You would of course need more if you have a ton of people, I'm mainly just playing with like 3-4 other guys at most.
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