Tutorial: Running SRCDS on DreamHost PS

[Akensai]

Source Server with DreamHost VPS
Lost most of the formatting in transfer, but if I just linked it would be advertising, sorry guys. if this is STILL considered advertising, then I give up, because its hard to read this without the formatting.

Removed tutorial from here, use the link above. I'm tired of getting emailed for missing images and the such.

[loopyman]

Hmm...

http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html Wrote:Servers are shared with other customers, and as such IRC-related activities or severely CPU intensive CGI scripts (e.g. chat scripts, scripts which have bugs causing them to not close properly after being run, etc.) are not encouraged. Any application that listens for inbound network connections (even if the application would otherwise be allowed) are not permitted. BitTorrent clients, proxy servers/scripts, IRC bots and bouncers (BNC) specifically may not be run on any DreamHost Web Hosting server. If your processes are adversely affecting server performance disproportionately DreamHost Web Hosting reserves the right to negotiate additional charges with the Customer and/or the discontinuation of the offending processes.

[Akensai]

(05-23-2010, 08:25 AM)loopyman Wrote:  Hmm...

http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html Wrote:Servers are shared with other customers, and as such IRC-related activities or severely CPU intensive CGI scripts (e.g. chat scripts, scripts which have bugs causing them to not close properly after being run, etc.) are not encouraged. Any application that listens for inbound network connections (even if the application would otherwise be allowed) are not permitted. BitTorrent clients, proxy servers/scripts, IRC bots and bouncers (BNC) specifically may not be run on any DreamHost Web Hosting server. If your processes are adversely affecting server performance disproportionately DreamHost Web Hosting reserves the right to negotiate additional charges with the Customer and/or the discontinuation of the offending processes.

Yeah, what I thought as well, had a chat with their tech supervisor and he said it would be fine, to quote him "If it starts getting out of control, we'll let you know and give you 2 weeks to find an alternative."

So far, no complaints, been 2 months, 1 of the servers STAYS full.

[Beaverbeliever]

This seems pretty hacky to me. I'm surprised actually that they let you do this. If anything, it deters me from hosting with them because they let customers run game servers on a web hosting service.

[loopyman]

Its just a VPS... Not really hacky.

I wouldn't trust this as a long term solution... Once Dreamhost needs more VPS space and sees that you're eating nearly 50% of one of their processors. Then they might just boot you for a less intensive customer.

[Akensai]

Beaver:
Yeah, as long as its not cpu intensive they really dont care too much, on my box 1 tf2 server runs about 600mb when full, and about a 30mb load average.

PS runs @ about 200mb ram, and 5mb load, I uninstalled everything but lighthttpd, and going by resource consumption, its about equal to running a 100 user forum.

(05-24-2010, 06:02 PM)loopyman Wrote:  Its just a VPS... Not really hacky.

I wouldn't trust this as a long term solution... Once Dreamhost needs more VPS space and sees that you're eating nearly 50% of one of their processors. Then they might just boot you for a less intensive customer.

True, but it still beats prices of most GSP's, as well as offering full root to the box your on (virtually anyways).
The whole write up was just to show HOW to do it, not really that you can.

In any case I have so much crap through dreamhost (i'm a web developer), that I doubt they would just cut me off without a warning, for others it sure could be a possibility.


EDIT:

http://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-126762-post-126969.html#pid126969

Support response promoting my idea :0

Useage Screenshot on a full server:
http://imgeasy.com/images/use.png