Wanted to know if this is good enough for what i want

[{EH}Talon]

Hi . im gonna be ording a server on the 25th and i wanted to know if it would beable to hold all the servers i wanted to host


specs

Package: X1 Dedicated Server
CPU: Dual Core Intel Pentium D 2.8 Ghz (2x1M Cache)
RAM: 2048 DDRII RAM
HDD: 250Gb C-gate SATA Hard Drive
OS: Windows Server 2000 or 2003
Bandwith: 1 mbit 95th percentile(~324GB)(50$ Extra each month)
Connection: 10mbit Full Duplex burstable line in


what we wanted to run


1x 24/7 Militia(20 slot)
1x 24/7 Office(20 slot)
1x 24/7 Dust/2(20 slot)
1x DeathMatch(20 slot)
1x Surf(14 slots)


a buddy of mine that deals with servers said we would be fine on bandwith and hardware i just wanted to see what you guys thaught .




thanx,

[candy-man]

You're going to go over 1 Mbps on 95% with all those servers, if they're full often.

How much more are they charging you for 2 or 3 Mbps?

[{EH}Talon]

candy-man Wrote:You're going to go over 1 Mbps on 95% with all those servers, if they're full often.

How much more are they charging you for 2 or 3 Mbps?

do you mean Mbit ? the bandwith or the connection


i dont know how much it is yet but you can get a 100mbit connection as well


and for bandwith 1Mbit is 324 GB and is 50.00CAD a month with is 43.36USD

[skeletor]

yea mbit is a bit different then mbps. although i never was exactly sure what it meant but honesty, that might be a bit much on for a little celeron to do. everything else looks fine though, lol.

[candy-man]

{EH}Talon, 1 Mbps on 95% does not mean you'll be allowed 324 GB of traffic per month. It means if you were to run your connection at 1 Mbps, constant, for the whole month, you could generate ~324 GB of traffic.

The problem with 95% is you are not really billed on how many GB/TB you transfer per month. You are billed based on the transfer rates (in Mbps) that you're using.

See this site for more info on 95% billing: http://www.seanadams.com/95/

Quote:What is the 95th percentile, and why is it useful in measuring bandwidth?
The 95th percentile is the smallest number that is greater that 95% of the numbers in a given set

You're basically billed on your bandwidth usage minus the top 5% (spikes).

If you have another server currently, try setting up Cacti or MRTG to graph 95% and see what you'll be using. As I said before, I think you'll be much above 1 Mbps running all those servers.

Attached is a graph of my 95%. That interface is running two 16 man HL2-DM servers @ 100 tick.

[skeletor]

ahh candy-man, thanx for the explanation on how the whole mbit works cuz like i said i was never sure on how exactly that worked. but that makes sense, and according to that, you probly would need a tad more. or well maybe more like 2 or 3 mbit more atleast.

/edit looking at the amount of servers 4 mbit might not even be enough... if the servers would be populated often.

[{EH}Talon]

skeletor Wrote:ahh candy-man, thanx for the explanation on how the whole mbit works cuz like i said i was never sure on how exactly that worked. but that makes sense, and according to that, you probly would need a tad more. or well maybe more like 2 or 3 mbit more atleast.

/edit looking at the amount of servers 4 mbit might not even be enough... if the servers would be populated often.

what we plan on doing is to run the servers and put a monitoring program on it so if that bandwith reacheas say 320 or something the server will shut down and not cost us 6.58$ for each gig of bandwith






im not sure if i understand how the bandwith still works ill read as much as i can on that site

[{EH}Talon]

I called up the company and had a huge discussion with adam


he said that to upgrade to the 100mbit line is free all they do is cap it down to 10mbit to start off with


and i think i udnerstand the 95th percentile thing he said some customers only use .2 mbit and like use 800 gb of bandwith


from what i understand its not charged bt the GB but by the spikes ?


is that correct they only charge for spikes ?

[candy-man]

No.

The "spikes" (top 5% of transfer rates) are ignored by 95% billing. The other values are what you'll be billed on, unless your provider has some "odd" way they're calculating it.

I'm not sure how someone can use .2 Mbps on 95% and still transfer 800 GB of data per month; something isn't right...

[{EH}Talon]

candy-man Wrote:No.

The "spikes" (top 5% of transfer rates) are ignored by 95% billing. The other values are what you'll be billed on, unless your provider has some "odd" way they're calculating it.

I'm not sure how someone can use .2 Mbps on 95% and still transfer 800 GB of data per month; something isn't right...

thats what he told me



i hope hes right


and he said .2 Mbit

[twinsen]

I duno but my old cs:s server was a 26 man and it was averaging 3mbit/s for most of the day. It ended up coming to about 900GB per month and that was just for a 26 man 66tick.