Hi.
I´m planning to start selling counter strike v1.6 servers.
I´m from Argentina, and here the datacenters and the links aren´t so cheap that in eeuu or europe.
I have three server with Q8400 and 6 gb of ram,windows 2003.
The server will run about 100 fps.
Rates 25000
What do you think the more exact quantity of bandwith(in mbps) do you think i need for the three server runing about 23 cs server in each pc(69 total, about 12 slot per server)?
The server will be all public,no privates server.

http://www.cstrike-planet.com/images/tutorial/i1-1.jpg :)

You plan on running 23 servers on 4 processors?

6GB RAM will seem to be the bottleneck. Also there are other factors such as if all the servers will be populated at the same time?

Hivelocity Q&A
Thanks for the info

SBTE

Yes,do you think that the proccesor can´t afford the load?
I made a few test, and the server running 20 server, and about 5-6 full, about 20% with peaks about 40-45% cpu.
at 80-90 fps the servers.


CH-Shaun:

Do you think that will be short of ram?
What amount of ram do you think the pc need for run ok?
(I made a few test, and the server running 20 server, and about 5-6 full,don´t reach the 3 gb used.)
I don´t think is possible that all server get full at the same time, becouse all clients never be playing at the same time,the max quantity of server i belive that posible will be full are about of 10 at the same time.

Hivelocity Q&A
Thanks for the info

SBTE

Yes,do you think that the proccesor can´t afford the load?
I made a few test, and the server running 20 server, and about 5-6 full, about 20% with peaks about 40-45% cpu.
at 80-90 fps the servers.


CH-Shaun:

Do you think that will be short of ram?
What amount of ram do you think the pc need for run ok?
(I made a few test, and the server running 20 server, and about 5-6 full,don´t reach the 3 gb used.)
I don´t think is possible that all server get full at the same time, becouse all clients never be playing at the same time,the max quantity of server i belive that posible will be full are about of 10 at the same time.

Having 5-6 servers full as opposed to having all 20 full is a big difference. Your CPU will likely be running at 70-80% on all 4 cores if you get 20 servers all full and active. Your memory is also going to be a bottleneck if you get all of those full, as they will consume more than 6GB (or at least try to).

You want to consider that while machine side things may look okay (3GB of memory in use, 40% CPU) actual gameplay may not be as smooth.

You will bottleneck with that CPU and memory, but if you MAXED out all of those 12 man servers, a 100mbps port SHOULD be OK...since it is unlikely you will max out that many servers at any given time.