Lan cafe server

[Jimmay]

Im doing some research into lan cafes/gaming cafes. I was wondering what sort of server spec would you expect to find in a cafe that runs 20 computers with all the major games such as, wow, css, 1.6, bf series, etc

Im guessing each game would have to run a dedicated server, so people can play across lan? do you think more than one server would be used?

thanks

 

[NicNac]

Im doing some research into lan cafes/gaming cafes. I was wondering what sort of server spec would you expect to find in a cafe that runs 20 computers with all the major games such as, wow, css, 1.6, bf series, etc

Im guessing each game would have to run a dedicated server, so people can play across lan? do you think more than one server would be used?

thanks

I suppose two would be handy in case one went down. you dont need to run more than one dedicated server at one time so why go over the top?

 

[mdjmcnally]

Why not use Virtual Software to run multiple Game Servers on the hardware,would cut down on hardware needed, ie

wow on a vm
css on a second vm
bf on a third etc

ESX is free from VMWare and the problem with the date has been fixed.

 

[s0ck]

No need to VM gameservers; they all run on fairly random high UDP ports and you'd want every drop of performance.
Two beasts you want, in case one goes down.

 

[bigredshark]

As said games servers are probably right up there on the list of things that shouldn't be virtualised, real time, latency sensitive app...