We recently were buying gameserver hosting from Branzone, Art of War Central and StealthServers, with Art of War Central running our boosted TF2 server. But we ran into problems with it because the server would 'hiccup'--meaning it would hang for a few seconds like it was lagging (with no lag) and then resume gameplay.

We got fed up with this and decided to get our own dedicated box.

But after getting our dedicated box, the problem still exists: the server, under no load (with only 1 or 2 people connected) will 'hiccup' every so often causing game play to stop for a few seconds before returning to normal state.

The server is a CentOS Dual Core Xeon at 2.8ghz, 2GB memory, 80gb HDD, 1.5TB BW from our host, The New York NOC. It was installed using the optimization guide stickied in this forum. As well, it is the ONLY thing running on our dedi at this time.

PLEASE HELP.

Is this your own dedicated that you put in a colocation yourself? Or renting it. Last company I went with renting a "Dedicated Server" turned out to be a VPS, I had the same Hiccups found out that it was because the whole VPS