Srcds in the cloud

[Nisd]

Any one ever tryed hosting a Srcds server in a cloud.
Like Amazone E2.

Else ill try and give it a go Just for fun

[Drocona]

What exactly do you mean?

I don't know Amazone E2.

[djjerdog]

I am guessing the OP is referring to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

I have never used it personally but it sounds like a VPS host to me. I have heard that amazon uses XenServer for there servers so I would guess this would be based off the same software. If it is then it will be terrible performance for hosting game servers. As in you'd be lucky to get 200FPS server side.

However I could be totally wrong, I would love to hear if someone knows more about it and if anyone was tried it.

[Nisd]

djjerdog yes it is ec2 i am referring to

Well guess i got to try it Just to see how it would work out. Il post the result here, when i get around it.

[Mooga]

SRCDS does NOT work well when virtualized. Therefore, running on "the cloud" is a BAD idea.

[mikeh]

I've successfully run a server at 1000FPS under a Xen DomU after recompiling the DomU kernel timed at 1000Hz. The trouble with shared systems is the i/o wait, it only takes someone else to hammer their VPS, and your srcds may as well be running from a 486.

[nimmysnv]

(09-29-2009, 06:18 PM)mikeh Wrote:  I've successfully run a server at 1000FPS under a Xen DomU after recompiling the DomU kernel timed at 1000Hz. The trouble with shared systems is the i/o wait, it only takes someone else to hammer their VPS, and your srcds may as well be running from a 486.

Hi,

All that you posted is good, as I am searching for an appropriate alternative which I got through this.

Thanks!!

[BehaartesEtwas]

running srcds in a xen DomU without other DomUs on the same hardware is pretty pointless ;-)

[klausenbusk]

Here is a fps test, of srcds on amazon ec2 (micro instant): http://www.fpsmeter.org/p,view;135297.html

[CentralFrag]

Digging up a 2 year old thread? lol

[klausenbusk]

yeh