Getting a dedicated server

Shaye87

Shaye87

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Hey guys
I am now thinking getting a dedicated server with the following spec:

» Intel Core2Duo 2 x 2.1Ghz+
» 2GB DDR2 PC5400 RAM
» 160GB SATA2 Hard Drive

+ Ubuntu (Latest) as the OS.

I am going with this spec as it seem the cheapest tbh.
I am not going to become a reseller or anything, just wanna be hosting my own game servers, voice servers etc...

What do you think of it, and how many game/voice servers should I be expecting to be able to run?

Thanks
 
Not much with that spec. Have you looked on a well known auction site for a cheap server? Desktop CPU's arent the best for what you are suggesting.
You'll need more memory also. What game servers are you looking at running? If your using Ubuntu - ive had trouble in the past hosting game servers for steam-based games such as CS:S etc.
 
I am guessing you will be renting this from a hosting company? Bandwith could be quite an issue otherwise!

I wouldn't have thought that you would need a lot of CPU power for Teamspeak or something.
 
well the main target is running game servers, in addition 1 VOIP server such as team speak or ventrilo... :).

So you are saying this won't be enough to hold 4 game servers + 1 VOIP server? that's all I need.

Games: CSS/TF2/L4D/KF (killing floor) and such.
 
I'm almost entirely confident that spec will be more than enough.

Game servers dont need a huge amount of CPU and RAM (normally you'll hit bandwidth limitations first). At work we're running a VOIP system for 100 users on a P4 2.8 with 1gb RAM (well there's 2 of them for resilience)
 
Shaye87 said:
it comes with a 2TB monthly bandwidth limit. what do you think?
shouldn't be that enough for the above?
thanks!
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Unless all of your servers are uber-popular (and I mean, 95% capacity, 95% of the time), those specs will be more than enough and so will the bandwidth. I don't know which servers you're running though. Source servers tend to use more RAM as opposed to processing power, which is cheap as chips if you want to upgrade at any point.

OS is also a personal preference. If you're hot on your Linux then by all means go for it, but more often than not I've had clients in the past wanting to move over to a Windows OS simply for the reason they can maintain their server easier from a remote location.

Hope this helps.
 
Lonz said:
Unless all of your servers are uber-popular (and I mean, 95% capacity, 95% of the time), those specs will be more than enough and so will the bandwidth. I don't know which servers you're running though. Source servers tend to use more RAM as opposed to processing power, which is cheap as chips if you want to upgrade at any point.

OS is also a personal preference. If you're hot on your Linux then by all means go for it, but more often than not I've had clients in the past wanting to move over to a Windows OS simply for the reason they can maintain their server easier from a remote location.

Hope this helps.
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Hey Lonz.
The kind of servers will be: CSS/TF2/L4D/KF (killing floor), 1 from each. and a temaspeak server.
Do you still think it will be enough?
 
So that's a no then?
As I said: running a L4D server is a requirement as well as the other servers.
Let me put it this way:

Can the above spec, run the following:
1 L4D server (To be able to versus, 8 slots i reckon?)
1 TF2 server (16 slots)
1 CSS server (16 slots)
1 Killing Floor server (6 slots)
1 TeamSpeak server (X slots)

Yes/No?

Thank you.
 
It's a more poweful server than you're giving it credit for. I'm assuming you're going to be using tickrate 66 for these. If they're private (tick 100) then you're not likely to have them full at the same time anyway. Like I said before, if you find that you're using all of your resources a lot of the time, you can easily upgrade the RAM for next to nothing. But I highly doubt you'll find that problem. And before that, always try tweaking the settings (lower tickrates especially, less bots and so on).

2000GB transfer will be slightly overkill really. You'll probably find that you'll only need a quarter of that at most at the start (before your IP gets popular). If your provider is open to negotiation on that front then you may be able to save yourself a few quid in the short term. Keep an eye on it though, they'll love to charge you excessive amounts for over usage, but you certainly won't need 2000GB.

Teamspeak uses next to nothing. The rest are RAM hungry more than CPU.
 
i know where hes getting that box from specifically and it could be any cpu in the core 2 duo range he gets from an E6400 to an E6750 all depends on what they have at the time
 
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