...or anyone with a similllar experience

Hi,

I'll be getting my own dedicated server in a few months, i plan to host my own website there with alot of media files.

For a site that's only 10mb and uses only 2 mysql databases (blog and forum), (it uses TONS of bandwidth though so thats why i need to go dedicated). I figured my CPU a AMD Athlon XP 2400+ would still have plenty more of CPU "power", i was thinking of adding just one 24man CS pub. Would you be able to estimate how much BW this CS server would use in a 24 hour period?

Im asking this because the EZZI datacenter has a policy for bandwidth usage. If you used 106gb in a 24 hour period then they would have the right to either disconnect your server for abuse (but most of the time they warn you first).

I appreciate any comments!

Originally posted by c0der
Im asking this because the EZZI datacenter has a policy for bandwidth usage. If you used 106gb in a 24 hour period then they would have the right to either disconnect your server for abuse (but most of the time they warn you first).
I can't really blame them there -- that's upwards of 8 - 10 Mbit sustained. A 24-player game won't even pass 1 Mbit.

Please remember that ezzi bills of equal in and out. So for instance, it's really 106 GB in and 106 GB out. Game servers generally have equal in and out. I think you will be perfectly fine for this.

It depends on your min/max rate in server.cfg. Generally a cs client uses between 3-7k/s. I've got a few servers myself, the 24 player iceworld server usually uses around 1mbit (avg 4-5k/s per client).

i would recommend

severmatrix for good east and west coast pings

and

sv_minrate 6000
sv_maxrate 13000
sv_cmdrate 45

ahh thanks for the comments hiryuu and rainetech, i guess i was overestimating the cs servers usage

thanks sensel ill set that up on my server configs and try em out :D

We've found CS servers to use a similar amount of bandwidth to what sensel is suggesting. ~20 players on a particular server can usually push about 1mb although you could do more or less depending on the map. If you are going for something like BF1942 then be prepared for a bit more bandwidth.

CS Servers usually use 2KB up 2KB down/ about 4KB per second per player. 24 x 4 = 96KB per second thats about 768K a second. The servers can be known to use more then that. I would be more concerned with the website and the media files, The only limit most webservers have on bandwidth is the amount of bandwidth available for the servers to use. It is very unlikely that the CS server will be full 24/7 but it is always a possibility. There are plugins out there mainly for apache which can limit the amount of bandwidth each client can use when transferring files i believe its called mod_bandwidth.

so ~1Mbps will be around ~10Gigs per 24h period...

I guess you should be fine... but depends how much bandwidth the apache/www will take..... (don't forget that some forum software are also CPU/ram intensive...)

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