r/servers

Hello! i am based in Canada and i am looking to source server parts such as motherboards, cpus,ram,etc... in bulk for our company inhouse built servers. I saw alot of chinese companies on ali baba but i donno how reliable they are! does anyone have any experience when it comes to using ali baba to source server parts? if yes, what companies do u recommend?

I wanna start being able to run my own servers for me and my friends so we can play private Minecraft servers or our own days servers without having to pay for subscriptions but I don’t want to run them on my own pc should I get a mini pc to run them or should I go for something stronger (there would only be like 5 to 10 people on the servers so let me know if that’s even worth getting a server for)