04-22-2010, 05:00 PM
Also it depends on the game you are hosting. If you have experience with the usage of css, and take that to dods or tf2 you are doomed to fail. The orangebox requires more hardware to achive the same results 
Here in europe normally the bandwidth isnt the bottleneck cause you get 100Mbit connections.
Still the biggest problem in guessing what the hardware can hold is: you cant say it. Its not only the cpu, ram and connection. It also comes down to mainboards hdd etc. once i helped someone with a core i7 920 that could not maintain as much slots per server as a core 2 duo with 2.2 Ghz. Still the amount of total slots is on the core i7 higher.
If you get a new system you cant get around testing. Estimating will fail in most cases. What it makes even harder is the fact that with linux the cpu usage is never correct and only a hint to what maybe is going on.
Here in europe normally the bandwidth isnt the bottleneck cause you get 100Mbit connections.
Still the biggest problem in guessing what the hardware can hold is: you cant say it. Its not only the cpu, ram and connection. It also comes down to mainboards hdd etc. once i helped someone with a core i7 920 that could not maintain as much slots per server as a core 2 duo with 2.2 Ghz. Still the amount of total slots is on the core i7 higher.
If you get a new system you cant get around testing. Estimating will fail in most cases. What it makes even harder is the fact that with linux the cpu usage is never correct and only a hint to what maybe is going on.