Buying A Server Computer

[MAD|Chris]

How about we start listing all the computers out there and ask the admins which are good and which are not lol. This way you dont get the same damn question 5 times a week.

Not going to happen, but thought I would state that.

[Mooga]

Just look for a computer with a dual or quad core processor run at at least 2.4 GHz with a minimum of 4GB of ram (to be safe).

[killklli]

yea ive given up on ebay not im just paroosing the web for a good box hopeing i find a good one under 200 bucks

[dualcore1289]

You have to define "good" and what you want to run, depends on how "good" the box should be.

[killklli]

something that can at least run 3 10 slot game servers without lag (the internet from my house is fine i just need a good box)

[dualcore1289]

a simple single core would be fine, but for room, any dual-core is plenty.

[killklli]

kay thanks and if you wana go ahead and help me search im looking for that within the price range of $-10 to $150

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this might be what im searching for would this do well? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816142015 if not i might have to give up on a server unless u guys can point me in right direction

[dualcore1289]

just ebay it.

[killklli]

i was but they were outa my price range

[dualcore1289]

Beggers can't be choosers. . .

[xguju]

(10-09-2009, 12:32 PM)dualcore1289 Wrote:  Beggers can't be choosers. . .

Well-said, although I am pretty sure that you can find a small dual core computer off ebay for less than 200 dollars. I can find one at best buy for 300 brand new. Hard to say that a small dual core (E2180+) wouldn't be sufficient. And hopefully our friend has the medium range of FIOS with at least 2mbit upload otherwise he is in for a laggy experience.

[Commander DusK]

Probably irrelevant by now but anyway. In my experience with SRCDS is that with over 10 people connected at a time the bandwidth starts to be a big issue especially if you are using a lot of plugins/workshop stuff. The best possible way in my opinion to roll-out SRCDS servers is to rent VPS's with a good bandwidth (If it's a good host you should be able to get a decent server $20 a month) with at least 2GB of RAM and 1 Core(s) for each SRCDS server (This depends what OS is on the machine and how many players are on your server and the amount of plugins used)  so that way you have a dedicated network connection for each server, and for the of god please use Linux you don't want Windows Server taking a dump all over your resources. ;P

PS. If not already you should be using a dedicated webserver for FastDL so you also have another dedicated network connection for serving game files to your players/clients.

PPS. At the end of the day it depends what you want to sacrifice for performance, also I believe SRCDS will never have multicore  support since the beta of SRCDS including multicore support that was being worked on by UKCS seems to have been "accidentally" shredded by some bastard so your can probably toss away your dreams of a perfect server.