I'm looking to build a server for hosting games maps. I'm thinking quad core but apart from that I'm not sure what to go for as I've never built a servers before. I know I don't need a Grfx card and that the onboard VGA will suffice. I'm going to strip the disks and mirror them (RAID 10) for performance and resilience and I also want to run VMware on there so I can virtualise the platform to run multiple maps. Base OS is not decided but more than likely Ubuntu as its free as I'm likely to have more than 4gb RAM which means I'd have to pay for an enterprise license under windows. Can anyone put me a spec toget, my budget is £400-£600 depending on spec and performance.
Spec me a Server Please
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Hp ml110 or 115 g5's, they support 4 sata discs.
Base model from a certain supplier (not a competitor to ocuk, this dept only sell servers) 169 plus vat, 189 plus vat respectively.
Both come with dual core cpu 110 gets 2.33ghz xeon and 115 ge4ts 1.80 opteron.
1 gb ram, 250gb hdd and support raid 0,1&10
I have bought several and have to say for the money there are beyond compare to building your own, proper 3 year warranty with the 115 and 1 year std with the 110.
Chuck in another 2gb ecc ram and a 4 x sata 2 drives (included drive is sata1) and that will come in well under budget inc mouse/keyboard.
Base model from a certain supplier (not a competitor to ocuk, this dept only sell servers) 169 plus vat, 189 plus vat respectively.
Both come with dual core cpu 110 gets 2.33ghz xeon and 115 ge4ts 1.80 opteron.
1 gb ram, 250gb hdd and support raid 0,1&10
I have bought several and have to say for the money there are beyond compare to building your own, proper 3 year warranty with the 115 and 1 year std with the 110.
Chuck in another 2gb ecc ram and a 4 x sata 2 drives (included drive is sata1) and that will come in well under budget inc mouse/keyboard.
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This might be an alternative to the system brendy mentioned. If you go for this steal an optical drive and graphics card out of another machine. No need to buy new ones since you'll only need 'em once (install from disk, install ssh, never need physical access again). Think of the hard disks as a placeholders for ones that are suited to the amount of storage you need. Linux softraid will work nicely for this.
Are you certain virtualization is necessary to run multiple maps? I'd think that you could run multiple maps simultaneously without all the overhead.
Remember that bandwidth is usually far more important than processor speed. Where'll this machine be living, a colo center?
Thanks for the info guys. The server will be in hosting centre and I can allocate as much bandwidth as I need. Should have mentioned that I'd like a rack mountable version of the server. Reason why I want to virtualise is so I can run different apps under different environment, Webserver, mail server, games server etc...
Brendy, I've had a look around and can't see the spec you mention at the prices you list. Couldn't point me in the right direction could you?
Brendy, I've had a look around and can't see the spec you mention at the prices you list. Couldn't point me in the right direction could you?
serversdirect matey, they were evend oing the previous generation4 ml110 etc for 99 plus vat for clearance with a years warranty, the 115s I think I mentioned come with 3 years warranty too, forget rack mounting these server can be sat anywhere and heat isnt a problem.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17877167
We did this a week or so ago
Guy went Dell in the end and I can't say it was a bad choice, though it will cost you a pretty penny.
/cheer for VMware!
We did this a week or so ago
Guy went Dell in the end and I can't say it was a bad choice, though it will cost you a pretty penny./cheer for VMware!