Some dedicated server ques

[Nomarky]

Hi All!

I'm looking at purchasing a 1U server and co-locating it, and have a couple of questions.

The spec I'm looking at:
Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz
2Gb RAM
10,000 RPM drives

To run:
24 slot TF2
3x 12 - 14 slot HL2DM

Would this hardware be capable of this? Not sure how to calculate how much cpu is needed...

Ideally I would like to run a bit of webhosting on the side, just for a couple of sites. Can sv_downloadurl redirection run on the same box as the game servers? Or would I need a second IP and NIC for that?

Regarding co-location, I've noticed that packages tend to include a power requirement in Amps, typically 0.5 - 1A in the ones I've been looking at. Again, would this be sufficient to power the server in question? And does anyone know of any good UK based co-location on offer? About the best I've come across is Rapidswitch (3000GB per/m, 0.5A power allocation) so far.

Cheers All!

[fqdn]

power usage depends on the model of server along with procs, if those are the older xeons you'll definitely go over 1A of usage. you will be able to run your sv_downloadurl off of the same ip if necessary but most colos will give you a range of usable ips to use (5-8 normally) and you can use one of the others.

[Nomarky]

Thanks for that fqdn, I'll check the specs of the server for the power usage.

Can anyone tell me whether the hardware will run those servers?

[Spartanfrog]

Well assuming you meant 66 tickrate for the Tf2 one and 100 tickrate for the Hl2dm ones, yeah you should be able to run it. Im not sure how much proccessing power it takes to webhost though.....

[Drocona]

You shouldn't run any download services at the gameserver, it will lag, they didn't make downloadurl for nothing.
it's to redirect the downloads to a different server so it will go fast and not lag the gameserver.

[Masher]

Nomarky Wrote:Ideally I would like to run a bit of webhosting on the side, just for a couple of sites. Can sv_downloadurl redirection run on the same box as the game servers? Or would I need a second IP and NIC for that?

If you do decided to do that, you'll want to set a 'speed' limit for how much data the http server is allowed to send per sec. You should be ok--I've got an almost similar setup to you and had been using the same box for svdownloadurl and a handful of game servers without a problem, but as Drocona said, it's always best to host elsewhere.