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I guess you might want to ask this question in one of the self-hosting communities (there's a bunch that are active, so I'm not linking one)
But getting back to the topic:
I'm running mine on a laptop with 4 threads at 2.6GHz and on 8GB of RAM it was fine with a bunch of other stuff running
IDK but for personal use I'd expect to also have low requirements
That part I'm not sure about. I'd expect it to be a bit more demanding
I understand you'll be running those on another computer and only streaming via OwnCast, so that goes back to earlier point
The requirements for a Minecraft server are pretty minimal if it's not modded and just for a couple players. If you're running a couple hundred mods, it will need a fast CPU and lots of RAM.