Server question

[silent]

I am looking to purchase a dedicated or a VPS for my game servers. I was wondering what was a good server hosting company and what requirements should i look for such as ram per game, bandwidth per game. I am currently running servers on gameserver.com and i am not satisfied at all with there setup or the our control over our own game server. Any information would be great.

[Mooga]

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[pengy]

Go with a dedi box, DONT EVER GET A VPS.... 4+gb of ram is good, 2.3ghz quad +, ~5tb bandwidth permonth.

[Nisd]

yah vps for gameserver == bad.

Any ways, you don't need a box that is so big, as pengy says.

Just make shure eatch core got +2ghz. And more then 512mb memory, that should be enough for a single or 2 servers

[pengy]

Read "game servers." with an s, so im guessing more than 3... anyways if you get a dedi, you can host everything else off of it too....

[silent]

I was just wondering if any one new how much a 24 person slot server took up with bandwidth, and how much ram. I guess no one can post any hosting company's because it would be advertising. The only reason i was looking into a VPS is that most dedicateds over 1 gig of ram cost over 100 a month, and if 1 server requires almost a gig of ram to run then it would not be a good option for us.

[Darksoul]

silent Wrote:I was just wondering if any one new how much a 24 person slot server took up with bandwidth, and how much ram. I guess no one can post any hosting company's because it would be advertising. The only reason i was looking into a VPS is that most dedicateds over 1 gig of ram cost over 100 a month, and if 1 server requires almost a gig of ram to run then it would not be a good option for us.

Probably 300MB ram and 324KB/s bandwidth.

Lets say everyone had 10KB/s bandwidth going to them. 10x24 = 240KB/s. People will use anywhere from 2KB/s to 20+KB/s, depending on rate settings.

So yeah, 324KB/s sounds about right. You don't need a GB ram for this server, especially if its a linux VPS. If its a windows, go with a GB.

You can find good dedicated server deals out there for under a hundred a month with decent hardware and good bandwidth. (I know a deal that has decent hardware and 5TB bandwidth for $99 a month)

As for how much bandwidth per month, do the math. 324KB/s = what GB per hour. How many GB per day will you require, then multiply that by 31 days.

[BehaartesEtwas]

300MB is a good estimate, but it depends on which plugins you are running. but even my publics with sourcemod etc. take only ~260MB. also add ~300MB for the linux system (or more for windows...).

CPU: one CPU core per server for optimal quality, or at least like half a core per server.

Bandwitdh: if you have a 100 MBit/s connection you are on the safe side, even 10 MBit/s should be enough. Don't use other connections than Ethernet (i.e. don't use DSL or Cable) for ping reasons, even if the bandwidth is sufficient.

The monthly traffic depends on how your servers are used. 10KB/s bandwidth is used for both up- and download per active slot, so calculate like 20 KB per second and active slot. Maybe some kind of flat rate is best to be on the safe side. A 24/7 filled 32 slot server takes like 1.5 TB of traffic per month (based on that calculation, in reality maybe a little less).

VPS: no go if you want high quality. With luck, you can host some medium quality server in a VPS, but this strongly depends on the settings of the VPS system. Ask the provider if he can make any guarantees w/r to the maximum time your VPS has to wait for others (should be much shorter than 1/100 sec!).

[Darksoul]

BehaartesEtwas Wrote:300MB is a good estimate, but it depends on which plugins you are running. but even my publics with sourcemod etc. take only ~260MB. also add ~300MB for the linux system (or more for windows...).

CPU: one CPU core per server for optimal quality, or at least like half a core per server.

Bandwitdh: if you have a 100 MBit/s connection you are on the safe side, even 10 MBit/s should be enough. Don't use other connections than Ethernet (i.e. don't use DSL or Cable) for ping reasons, even if the bandwidth is sufficient.

The monthly traffic depends on how your servers are used. 10KB/s bandwidth is used for both up- and download per active slot, so calculate like 20 KB per second and active slot. Maybe some kind of flat rate is best to be on the safe side. A 24/7 filled 32 slot server takes like 1.5 TB of traffic per month (based on that calculation, in reality maybe a little less).

VPS: no go if you want high quality. With luck, you can host some medium quality server in a VPS, but this strongly depends on the settings of the VPS system. Ask the provider if he can make any guarantees w/r to the maximum time your VPS has to wait for others (should be much shorter than 1/100 sec!).

Linux requires no ram.. I ran a successful 4 slot CSS server with eventscripts and mani and other crap, FFA. No lag with 4 people on, 94MB ram 400Mhz Celeron processor.

I could host up to eight slots with lag.

By successful, I mean full. A lot. .

Granted, this was around 2004-2005.

As for the bandwidth issue, you don't need close to 10Mbit/s (10Mbps) upload.

I ran a 32 slot server and it hovered around four-six Mbps upload when full.

People overestimate the required bandwidth per slot, but yeah your pretty much correct on the monthly bandwidth usage at 1TB-1.5TB. But thats only if its full 24/7.

[silent]

Thank you for the responses. This has helped me greatly in my selection by determining what i need and what is excessive.