Windows or Linux servers..

[Ramsus]

Based on experiences that people have had, what OS would you use to run your servers on? If you could list the specs of the server you ran it on to, that would be helpful.


Thanks!

[c2um3]

i run my server on windows xp pro but i am workin on a linux box 2 give a try

spec's
celeron socket 478 2.4 GHz
intel 845 chipset
512 DDR gial PC-3500
2 20gig wester digital hard drives @ raid 0

[Stealth]

Agreed on windows xp pro. Although its not a specific 'server' build of windows its very stable and cost effective.

[inc0gs]

I've always only used linux for cs servers.
had three different boxes

1st box specs:
started with rh 9, then wbel 3, then rhel 4
2.4 ghz pentium 4, 1 gb ram, 74 gb, wd raptor

2nd box specs:
rhel 4
3.0 ghz pentium 4, 1 gb ram, 40 gb hd

3rd box specs:
rhel 4
dual opteron 250s, 2 gb ram, dual wd raptors in raid 1

the biggest advantage I've seen with linux is that the autoupdate works really well. IDK if they fixed the auto update for windows, but I know when theres a server update, everyones in my area is trying to connect to my server because the other local servers use windows, and don't get updated right away. not to mention linux is virtually free.

I think you may hear a lot of arguements about which performs better, so I'll leave that alone.

[skeletor]

yea.. i have heard it go either way to which one is better... i personally have never used linux (future plans.......) i use windows xp pro for my server.. and i don't have any problems...

[c2um3]

honestly i would say go with what u know @ first then if u feel like it @ a later time build u another box and try the other.. my XP pro HL2DM server runs jus about flawless.. but i wanna experament with linux and see if it drops cpu useage or boost's FPS... when i figer it out odd's are i will post about it sence im slowly becommin a srcds post whore =).. love the site admins it's great 2 find so much info in 1 place...

[DarkZealot89]

I prefer windows as I can make bat files easily. With linux i have no idea how to make the "shell extensions" >< I am a dos guy at heart lol

[Ramsus]

My past experiences with Linux have been a lot of memory leaks, which causes CPU spikes..can anyone confirm that?

[solei]

skeletor Wrote:yea.. i have heard it go either way to which one is better... i personally have never used linux (future plans.......) i use windows xp pro for my server.. and i don't have any problems...

This is the best advice of the lot.

If you know linux well enough to troubleshoot it into working (and seriously, that's what you'll be doing for hours), then go the linux route. It's free, and generally solid as a rock, plus in my experiance, it will make better use of less system specs (so long as you compile everything from scratch to specifically work with your hardware- see gentoo.org).

If you know Windows well enough to pop a server up and get it going, then I'd stick with windows.

Myself, I've got a server set up running Windows Server 2003, which happily sits in a datacenter. I just run the server in console mode, and hacked it into a service which runs in the background without needing anyone to be logged in to have it running. It runs perfectly for me.

[solei]

Ramsus Wrote:My past experiences with Linux have been a lot of memory leaks, which causes CPU spikes..can anyone confirm that?

Generally, it all depends on your distro, and the packages you're running with it.

If you're running Redhat with KDE and lots of bells and whistles, you might leak memory like a sivv.

If you compile Gentoo or Debian onto a box to have nothing but a Counter strike Source server and shh to get into the box, there's nothing around that can eat memory, unless the SRCDS executable is poorly programmed (which is possible, I've never worked with it myself, but I doubt it).