How many players? Bandwidth?

[ClanWoof]

Hello there guys, just wondering how many players could a dual amd quad core server with say 4gigs ecc ram Support?
So with the 8 core about how many players could I have on this server? Also what type of bandwidth and connection speed would I need from a colocation.
Thanks for any help.
Jake.

[fqdn]

a full 24 player server will use somewhere in the neighborhood of 550Gb month, if you are being billed at 95th percentile, you'd be in the 3-4Mb/sec range. this is of course if it's full 24 hours a day for a month.

[ClanWoof]

Hmm, right now I have three servers, one 24 slots deathmatch gungame server thats full 22/7 Something around that.
I also have just a dust2 office server thats just about full the same 24 players.
Any good colocations you guys know of in Seattle area. That are not like 1200$ a month
550Gb a month thats alot, so something like 2000Gb for say 5 servers is not to much then you're saying.
Hope I can find a good colo.

[Spartanfrog]

Make sure you have the correct port speed. Like 10 Mbps can only hold 50 100 tickrate slots per month. It can hold more but if more then 50 are in use, LAGGGGG!
Anyway this is the percentages for bandwidth uses:
33 Tickrate 5/kbps on average
66 Tickrate 12/kbps on average
100 Tickrate 18/kbps on average
Remember though, to goes Kbps (kilobits), KBps (kiloBytes), Mbps (megabytes), Gb (gigabyes). So to get from kilobits to Mbps, you gotta times it by 8 to get to KiloBytes, then times it by 1000 to get to Megabytes. Just a simple thing that a lot of people get confused on, myself included. Btw, slots increase the more of them in use. So at realllllly busy times a 100 tick slots could take up more then 18/kbps.
Finally, we cant really tell you how many slots you could host with your specs without EXACTLY knowing what they are. So what ghz is each core?

[fqdn]

go to http://www.webhostingtalk.com and look in the colo offers section, there are more than a few providers in the seattle area. you're probably looking at something in the westin building for premium bandwidth. you will probably have to talk to each individually for a per GB colo deal as almost all work on the 95th% billing model.

if your server is full 22/7 then just type stats in console and it will give you the current transfer rates in/out, you can then get a ballpark average and use that for the monthly numbers.

[ClanWoof]

1.9ghz, is what they have right now out. Sorry forgot to put that in. Also with 10Mbps only around 50 slots, so I would be looking for around what 50mbps or 100?
I would like to run around four servers. All 24 players at least.

[Spartanfrog]

Quad core 1.9 ghz could hold 120 slots. You could just use 10 Mbps but there is a risk that more then 50 slots become in use.

[Drocona]

Well for any 24 slot server you'd be looking into 66 tick, not 100 so that will take more than enough load off the server.. like 90 slots total I guess. So 10 mbit should be enough for all your servers..

However running at a datacenter you usually get connected with 100mbit so it's burstable (look into 95th percentile)

[ClanWoof]

Okay, I have looked into a few colocations and such, here is one that looked like the best price.
$125/month including 1 mbit/sec of usage (95th percentile measured) burstable to full 100 mbit/sec. (our network is 100% gigE except customer facing ports). Additional usage is billed at $30/mbit

[fqdn]

ClanWoof Wrote:Okay, I have looked into a few colocations and such, here is one that looked like the best price.
$125/month including 1 mbit/sec of usage (95th percentile measured) burstable to full 100 mbit/sec. (our network is 100% gigE except customer facing ports). Additional usage is billed at $30/mbit

you need to know who the network providers are, do they list them?

[ClanWoof]

Hmm, do you guys know if I would be better off to get Two amd opteron 1.7Ghz quad core cpu's
Or would I be better off to get Two dual core opteron 2.6Ghz?
Both cpu's are around the same price. Not sure how the amd Quad cores really are. Anyone have them?

[Spartanfrog]

Well if I am understand correctly, then the first option is in total 8, 1.7 ghz cores?
Then the second is 4 2.6 cores?
First option about 240ish 100 tickrate slots.
Second option about 210ish. So I guess really the 1.7 core but this all just an estimate so same thing really.

[ClanWoof]

Okay, I found a good deal on a colocation with 2tb bandwidth on a 10mbps capped connection. I could also pay 15$ more a month and make that 100mbps connection. With that amount of bandwidth how many player slots would that be?
One of my servers right now is deathmatch gungame seems to use alot of cpu and bandwidth.
My other server is full 24/7 with 24 players. I think I am using around just under 1tb a month
So pretty much I would like to know how many slots 2tb could hold, so my next server I build can be cheaper. Since I'm sure on 2tb I could not hold 200 players.

[Spartanfrog]

10 mbps gives you about 50 slots max in use at one time. 2 TB could hold 43 slots 24/7 but you can go higher then that.

[fqdn]

Spartanfrog Wrote:10 mbps gives you about 50 slots max in use at one time. 2 TB could hold 43 slots 24/7 but you can go higher then that.

that's if everyone is using maxrate of ~25000 at one time, since that rarely if ever happens it would be safe to say that you could go 25-50% more slots.