Where would be the best place to purchase a dedicated server for that video game?

a place you get the best ping to .. its no fun if you have a high ping but all your gaming friends have low pings you could try rackshack but they dont make the best game server hosts cuz they dont know how to route heh

try webreseller.. yipes is good you would get a good ping on the midwest/east coast

if your on the west coast fastservers would be a good place..

Our you could just go with a place that Hosts Game servers..

www.Ilangame.com

www.Artofwarcentral.com
www.xgamingservers.com

www.onlingaminghost.com

www.clanservers.net

all of those support SOF2 .. and i'm sure there are others.

true but if he knows linux/unix then he knows its not worth paying them when he can get a dedicated server himself and maybe even sell a few servers to people and basicly pay for the box that way..

Just out of interest how many game servers is it possible to fit on one box?
I mean for like Quake and CS etc, I think SOF2 would be a bit too hungry for multiple.

It really depends on the specs of the box and how much bandwidth you are alotted. Gameservers eat up a ton of bw.

I recommend Webreseller.net (Exton, PA) and Fastservers.net (Fremont, CA) for game server hosting, both are great bang/buck deals. Unfortunately Fastservers doesn't seem to be taking new orders at this time, but they could be worth the wait. If you're not near either coast, you might want to look into a central host, though you may still ping your pings to Webreseller or Fastservers acceptable. Also, some people in SoCal have been having routing problems to Fastservers lately, where data to/from them goes all the way to HE's NYC node and then back to the west coast. This wasn't happening when I first rented a server with them, so I hope it's temporary. Btw, do you know how SoF2 servers compare to Half-Life ones in resource usage? (bandwidth, RAM, CPU, etc?)

In my experience, you can normally fit a lot of Quake3 games on one box. At LAN parties that I admin, I've been able to run a full game of CS and a full game of Q3 Threewave, and the highest the pings get is around 20. Course, you factor in all the bandwidth being used by filetrading, and even those pings don't look too bad.

It all really depends on the amount of hardware you buy. If you're stuck with a Celeron 1ghz with 512 RAM, I wouldn't recommend more than one CS server on it. However, if you splurge for the dual P3s/AMD MPs and the gig of ram, you could probably get by with 3 gameservers, if not all three of them are extremely proc extensive, like CStrike.

Marbolo, I currently have four Half-Life servers on one of your 1.3 ghz Celeron's with 512 megs of RAM, no problems whatsoever :) It has one 12 player, two 14 players, and one 16 player. They haven't all been full at once yet, but I've had a very similar setup @ Webreseller fill up without any problems.

How much bandwidth do they really take up? How much is "a lot"?

Originally posted by wakkow
How much bandwidth do they really take up? How much is "a lot"?

with gameservers its hard to tell you really just need to beable to burst fairly well at times.. there will be lots of times when theres no one on it so you wouldnt be using much but other times it might be full and you would be using a good dose of bw

Well I don't know how to set up a Linux but those prices seem a lot better on www.Webreseller.net and www.Fastservers.net. If I consider purchasing 1 would anyone be interested in setting it up for me? I could pay $20 over Paypal. But I still need to think about it first.:nuts:

some guy was offering game servers on the Offers section. You might want to check that area!

Originally posted by teamhead
Well I don't know how to set up a Linux but those prices seem a lot better on www.Webreseller.net and www.Fastservers.net. If I consider purchasing 1 would anyone be interested in setting it up for me? I could pay $20 over Paypal. But I still need to think about it first.:nuts:

its not the one time setup you have to worry about its when updates/reboots/restarts/server upgrades come into effect when you will need to know what your doing, unless you plan to shell out alot of money ;)

just my 2 cents you should probably go with a game hosting provider just less of a headache for ya

How many should I be able to host with a server like this from FastServers.net?

Celeron 1.2Ghz
512MB of RAM
60GB IDE Drive
Red Hat Linux 7.3
1 Mb/sec Burstable Bandwidth or
300GB Actual
4 IP Addresses
24 Hour Active Port Monitoring


More then 32?

Originally posted by Faggle
true but if he knows linux/unix then he knows its not worth paying them when he can get a dedicated server himself and maybe even sell a few servers to people and basicly pay for the box that way..

Usually, the professional game server providers use systems that a lot of people can't afford when just starting off. These 1.2 to 1.8 or so ghz machines with 512 meg ram and IDE drives do ok.... but you're high end game server providers usually use xeon cpu's, 2 gigs of ram or more, scsi hd's, etc.

xgameservers uses high end dell servers for some if not all their servers. and these bad boys are not your $99/month server everyone is used to getting around here :)

Providers get 2.2ghz machines so they can cram 10 game servers per physical server to make lotsa $$$. You really do not need more than a sub-gigahertz PIII to run a full 32 user game server.