Server Questions...

[yazid]

Me and some friends have been thinking of buying a good server computer and getting internet suitable to run a small server hosting website...anyways here are my questions.

1.where can i get a good server computer?

2.what can i get for around $2000?

3.Is an internet connection with a download speed of 20 Mbps and upload speed of 1 Mbps with unlimited bandwidth good enough?

4.with that internet and the box i could get for that budget how many 10 man servers could I run?

5.what kind of operating system does an "industrial" server box run on?

Thats all my questions for now, thanks in advance for any help

[zef.]

1&2. recommended place to shop for servers (proper servers) on the cheap: http://www.ebay.com
cant help you out with anything new unless your in AU. for your 2k USD you should be able to get a dual xeon or opty 2.6ghz or thereabouts with 2gb of ram and some RAID.

3&4. 1Mbps up is enough for 1x10player server @ 66 tick. and even that is debatable from my experiance (i run a 66tick 10player server on a 1Mbps up connection).

5. wtf does "industrial" mean? Serious source servers tend to run on linux/freeBSD from what I can tell. An easy linux solution is Debian. Dont run it with a Gui unless you want to waste system resources and be laughed at.

[yazid]

ok thanks for the quick responses. I'm not very serious about actually doing this because its alot of work and money, i just wanted to get a good idea of how these things work and what kind of resources it requires.

[zef.]

if your just after a server to fool around with your mates on then a 1Mb up is fine for 10 players provided you set your rates and all correctly.
a cheap P4/AM64 system with 1GB of RAM would do the job as well and would set you back maybe $500 if that.