New Dedicated Server

[londonkwolf]

Hi Guys,

I am getting access to a new dedicated server soon, and I am just wondering if it is any good... If it is, how many servers/slots could I run?

Many thanks in advanced guys...

Server specs are as follows:
Motherboard - Supermicro X8DTI-LN4F Motherboard with QUAD Gigabit LAN & Integrated IPMI 2.0 with Dedicated LAN
Processor - 2x X5680 Intel Six-Core Xeon 3.33GHz 12Mb Cache 6.4GT/s 95Watts
Memory - 12x 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC Reg w/Parity CL9 DIMM Dual Rank
O/S Hard Drives - 2x Seagate 500Gb Drive For Operating System (RAID 1)
Hard Drive - 2x 300Gb Intel SSD 320 SERIES 2.5IN SATA3 MLC (RAID 0)
RAID Controller Card - LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID Controller - LSI00202
RAID Controller Battery Backup - RAID Controller Battery Backup Module
SSD Caching Kit - SSD Caching Kit - Upto 85,000 IOPS
Slimline Optical Bay - Slimline DVD-RW Dual Layer Drive SATA
PCI Express Expansion - Intel PRO/1000 Quad Server Adapter RJ45 10/100/1000 Quad Port
Operating System - Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2A - Workgroup Edition (NAS Only, 32bit)
Power Protection - APC Smart-UPS 2200VA Rackmountable USB/Serial

[Nisd]

Hmmmm funky operating system for dedicated servers.

Any how, 24 or more decent servers is my guess, all depends on game and mods etc.

[londonkwolf]

Storage server is a pretty 'funky' operating system, but it's actually not much different from normal Windows Server. The only thing really different is a few pre-installed web page modules where you can manage the storage remotely.

It's a £10,000 server and is for work, but what I was wondering was, if I had these specs to use as a game server provider how many servers/slots would it be able to run? I don't play any other game than Counter Strike, so would only be selling 1.6, Source and GO servers.

Quote:Any how, 24 or more decent servers is my guess, all depends on game and mods etc.

How many slots would these servers be?

Again, many thanks.

[loopyman]

Depends on the mods and addons of each servers.

Theoretically you could run 12 huge CPU hungry zombie servers. Or 320 empty 10 slot CS 1.6 servers...

[londonkwolf]

Thanks for the reply guys.

Has anyone else got any input/feedback?

[Mike]

I have a Dell R210 II with a 60 GB Corsair ssd and a Intel Xeon E3-1270 cpu running with intel turbo mode, runs over 12 servers smoothly. we have 21, but they all arent full at the same time.

[ENS-LTD]

As others said, it just depends but yeah in the region of 12+, it just depends on how many slots each have. Like others said, you could have 300+ empty servers, but that's pointless.