CSS Sever : Bandwidth Usage

[2dserver]

Afternoon.

hoping someone here offer up some info on this. I am using works server to host CSS (they know so not breaking any rules) but we have a 100gig bandwidth limit per month. I have been looking at the servers bandwidth usage an the server pumps up to 5gigs of usage a day.

Now how do i cut back on this, or try an lower it. i really don't want to have to switch it off during the week, but if need be that's what i'll have to do.

Currently server is running mani mod, 20 users with 4 private. Clients can upload data (im guesssing just their logo's here) and d/l from server as well. Now thinking on it this is where the problem will lie, but the small amount of logo's that are upped can't be that much and i'm only using standard maps (installed with css) so there should be now map d/ling

any an all help will make me a happy fella

- oh. on a side note. if anyone can point me in the right dir for a complete list of cvars we admins use ingame that will help me as well. finally got mani mod up (at work so can't use server ingame) but im hoping i have full power now. but if not, wnt to be able to console beat them.

cheers

[cryotek]

only way to really cut back would be to limit the usage, use small maps really..

allowing users to upload and download is also causing the large bandwidth usage I believe you can set a max rate which is how much bandwidth the server can be abllowed to use.

Quote:sv_maxrate - Max bandwidth rate allowed on server.

I would play around with that, see if that helps any. As far as admin with mani plugin, there should be some kind of users file you add your steamid to and specify what flags the admin will get. paste that, should be called users.ini i think.

[kingpin2051]

So your server has about 20 total slots
and you are using about 150Gb per month?

I am limited to 100Gb also, and I was hoping
to have about 60 slots on my box (3 games).


This link may be helpful.
http://www.srcds.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=556

[2dserver]

thanks guys. off to knacker usage on server.

[cryotek]

kingpin2051 Wrote:So your server has about 20 total slots
and you are using about 150Gb per month?

I am limited to 100Gb also, and I was hoping
to have about 60 slots on my box (3 games).


This link may be helpful.
http://www.srcds.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=556

60 slots will probably exceed your limit, specially if they get busy.

[2dserver]

so what do you recommend. i have set it similar to what the link states there. is that too much?

I have also cut down, in the .cfg file, the file size limit their allowed to upload from 64meg to 2meg. as im thinking if they upload it will only be their graffiti logo? or have i gotten this wrong as well?

[inc0gs]

I'd reccomend setting your sv_downloadurl, so that map downloads are done on another host.

sv_maxrate is not so much for a cumulative effect but more for the client-server connection.

maybe try setting sv_allowupload 0, then custom sprays from client will not be uploaded. Although the size of the spray may be not be that big, the custom spray after being uploaded, would need to be downloaded by everyone else on the server, or they wouldn't see it. So lets say that there are 20 guys on your server and every one of them has a custom spray that is 50kb. in order for everyone to see everyone elses, 50kb would be uploaded 20 times and 50kb would be downloaded 19^2 times.

And probably the best way to reduce the amount of bandwidth used would be to reduce the number of player slots.

[2dserver]

awesome.. thank you..

[kingpin2051]

cryotek Wrote:

kingpin2051 Wrote:So your server has about 20 total slots
and you are using about 150Gb per month?

I am limited to 100Gb also, and I was hoping
to have about 60 slots on my box (3 games).


This link may be helpful.
http://www.srcds.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=556

60 slots will probably exceed your limit, specially if they get busy.

So If I am running 3-4 20 slot servers on my box,
how much data transfer would I use per month?
Assuming all full for about 10-12 hours per day?

How much would each server use?

Im looking for a colo or host and want to make sure I
get enough monthly transfer.

Thanks!

[cryotek]

there ARE places that off 1.2-2TB of transfer a month yanno..

[kingpin2051]

cryotek Wrote:there ARE places that off 1.2-2TB of transfer a month yanno..

True!! I finally found a couple places that offer that
with decent servers and prices in the San Francisco area....but still looking around.

I know you get what you pay for, but my budget is currently tight until it is justified to spend more.