Hey guys,

Im looking into some advice for getting a new gameserver, we've been with burst, but the recent packet loss over the past 6 weeks makes gaming unbearable.

The server needs to be dual xeon 2.4+, 3gig Ram, Dual 73gig SCSI (Raid Mirrored), with at least 2TB a month transfer.

We need as close to 100% uptime as we can, and support tickets - (which is normally only ever a reboot request) - to be actioned within about 30 minutes max.

Ideally a company offering remote reboot ports would be good - so we wont need those tickets at all.

Thanks,

--Liam Gladdy

you can have a look at http://ww.theplanet.com total control servers

do it your self ahha

umm nuclear fallout is great

East Coast? It all depends on your budget - you wont find much anything worth it on burst.net's budget.

agreed. if you want quality on the northeast, talk to joe cooper at peer1-nyc (jcooper on the forums).

paul

How much is your budget?

For the specs your looking for I would advise going with one of the more reputable datacenters since you require good uptime and equipment.

Run a search on the forums here for positive feedback on a few before you decide though... ;)

Theplanet.com for sure.

theplanet is in a different geographic location, so may not be a good fit for his gaming customers. besides, their network seems to not be coping that well with the servermatrix-induced growth. its a ticking time bomb, imho.

paul

Just a question. I do understand that in the gaming industry, you need great hardware and great uptime but

1) You don't need 3 gigs of ram with a dual 2.4


2) 2 terabytes of BW is unnecessary as you cannot host enough servers on a dual 2.4 to eat up all that bandwidth. Even when you have all your slots consecutively full, it will not need 2 terabytes. 10 20 man publics full 24/7 (Thats probably the limit on a Dual Xeon) will take at most about 3-4 mbps. But I doubt the servers will be full 24/7

large scsi drives (a 36 gb would do) and especially raid seem to be completely superfluous. you may do better not paying for things you do not use, imho.

paul

Yeah. A game server on average takes 200-400 mb of HD space. Add ventrilo etc, ive 500 megs per server. On a dual lets say you run at max 16 private servers. Thats still not even 1/2 of a 36 gb scsi. So a lot of your specs are superfluous

Paul - Up Early I see? :-D