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[DragonLight]

Still can't find a reliable wiki or answers anywhere, everyone has varying opinions. Heres the deal, I got 4 servers now using shared hosting with a GSP (1x32, 3x24 SRCDS TF2 @ 66 tick). I'd like to move to a dedicated server so we can expand eventually. Problem is GSP won't tell me what they host shared servers on, figures.

So I'd like to eventually run this many games on a dedicated setup, default FPS is fine:

2x32 TF2 @66tick
6x24 TF2 @66tick

So basically I need a dedicated server for about 200 slots. I was looking at this:

Quadcore X3450 (4x 2.66ghz)
Memory: 8GB DDR3
Hard-Drive: 500GB
Bandwidth: 3500GB
Port: 100 Mbps

But I'm a bit skeptical if it can handle 200 slots. The servers will probably be full at least 3/4th of the day so a bit iffy on that bandwidth to.

Could also try:

Intel Quad Core E3 1240 (4x 3.3Ghz)
Hard-Drive: 1TB
8GB Memory
100 Mbps Port Speed
3500 GB Bandwidth


What do you guys think honestly?

[click4dylan]

when i was renting james bond 007 nightfire servers from art of war central back in 09, i used the command to print hardware info and turns out they were using dual xeon X4's at 3.4 GHz with 8 GB of ram to 16 GB of ram depending on he location. it's probably gotten better since then. no idea from any other companies


and btw you will NEVER run 6 servers on one machine. you're talking 2+ dedi's right there for that setup. it doesn't matter how many slots or how much ram you have. source servers are single threaded. one server per core maximum

and the port speed is fine. you're only looking at ~34Mbps upload requirement

but you'll need 11.2 terabytes for that many servers LOL way over the original limit

[loopyman]

Quote:and btw you will NEVER run 6 servers on one machine. you're talking 2+ dedi's right there for that setup. it doesn't matter how many slots or how much ram you have. source servers are single threaded. one server per core maximum

and the port speed is fine. you're only looking at ~34Mbps upload requirement

but you'll need 11.2 terabytes for that many servers LOL way over the original limit

If every single slot was full 24/7 on every game server.

[DragonLight]

Right... which wouldn't be full 24/7. It's almost easier to just to stay with shared hosting and let the GSP take care of it.

[lol554]

It will probably be full around uhm... 10% of the total uptime. never rely on the theoretical calculations.

[Zylius]

Hmm this may be a bit off-topic, but wouldn't a Phenom II X6 1055T be better at this situation? Since srcds doesn't support multi-threading, you could give each box a separate core.

[dualcore1289]

Since SRCDS is single threaded, for the best performance, you want the highest GHZ CPU for it.

[lol554]

(09-09-2011, 03:09 AM)Zylius Wrote:  Hmm this may be a bit off-topic, but wouldn't a Phenom II X6 1055T be better at this situation? Since srcds doesn't support multi-threading, you could give each box a separate core.

I would prefer a sandy bridge CPU then. You get a lot more performance per clock.