Few dedicated servers...

[Hazz]

I'm still on a hunt for a cheap dedicated server. I have found these from RackSRV:

First one @ £69.99 PM
Intel Core2Duo E4500 (2MB Cache)
1GB DDR2 667 Memory
160Gb SATA HDD (8MB Cache)
500GB Premium Bandwidth
Bandwidth usage graphing

Second one @ £99.99 PM
Intel Core2Duo E6750 (4MB Cache)
2GB DDR2 667 Memory
160Gb SATA HDD (8MB Cache)
1000GB Premium Bandwidth
Bandwidth usage graphing

Third one @ £129.99 PM
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (8MB Cache)
4GB DDR2 667 Memory
250Gb SATA HDD (8MB Cache)
1500GB Premium Bandwidth
Bandwidth usage graphing

I want to run the following: (Counter-Strike Source)

18 slot 100 tick
24 slot 66 tick
50 slot 33 tick
20 slot 66 tick
12 slot 100 tick

What one will run that well? I want to boost these to 500FPS min. Also, what about bandwidth, what sort of bandwidth am I looking at using to run all this a month? (All servers being full 24/7)

Thanks for all the help!

[fqdn]

theoretical max @sv_maxrate of 30000 for all those slots (not saying any of those physical servers can do all those slots) is almost 1Tb (10000Gb). i would say 65-75% of the max is a good estimate for max usage, since its rare that all clients will be using 30000 at the same time, so ~6500-7500Gb monthly for the number of slots you want.

just a rough estimate of course.

[Spartanfrog]

Yeah you would almost definitly not have enough bandwidth.

[Hazz]

Ok.

How about in terms of hardware?

[technik]

try killercreation or rapidswitch

the transfer from that company sucks...500GB? lol.

[Hazz]

Thanks for the recommendations, I will be looking into them.

I still think Fasthosts offer the best package from what I have seen.

[Spartanfrog]

Hardware wise:
1st option maybe a little higher than 80 slots.
2nd option maybe 25 slots more than the first option
3rd option probably 188 slots.
Just to let you know, bandwidth wise the first option would hold 11 slots 24/7, second one 22 slots 24/7, the last 33 slots 24/7. You need way more bandwidth

[Hazz]

I was just talking to the support people at the place where these servers are from, and he said he as run a successful GSP before and he said 1500GB is plenty...

[jameshaigh]

Of course he's going to say that. He's trying to sell you something!

[fqdn]

Hazz Wrote:I was just talking to the support people at the place where these servers are from, and he said he as run a successful GSP before and he said 1500GB is plenty...

nobody said you can't run a game server on 1500GB, however you stated you wanted to run 124 slots. a 24/7 full 28 slot CSS server will use anywhere from ~500-600GB/month (if you do +/- 15% it will be a pretty accurate estimate). say you use the low end ie 500GB for 28 slots, the most you can have at 1500GB is 84 slots leaving you 40 slots short. i'd say that you have to get at least the quad core box for all those slots/tickrate AND add bandwidth if you are sure they are going to be full all the time.

[blik]

Not enough bandwidth. We run 176 slots, full allmost 24/7 on a quadcore, using ~4.5TB (~4500GB) per month.

[Hazz]

He has offered to double free of charge, but thats till not enough really...

[Hazz]

Thanks to someone from Xone PMing me, I have found this amazing deal:

» Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (4x 2.4Ghz, 8MB Cache)
» 4GB DDR2 PC2-6400 C5 RAM
» 250GB 7200.10 SATA HDD (16mb Cache)

» Free Remote Reboots
» Free Server Setup
» Free Game Server Control Panel
» Unlimited Gaming Bandwidth
» Choice Of Operating System ( Windows / Linux )

All for £105 a month.

[Drocona]

Nothing is unlimited, ask what the upload speed is on that.

[Hazz]

100mb port.