02-09-2012, 02:19 PM
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Hey guys I am looking to start a hosting business. My server budget is around 4k, so can you guys help me find a good setup. Im looking to get a server with 8 cores if possible, 24 gigs of ram, good graphics card for games that need it, and I assume I would want to use ssd vs hard drive for gameserver hosting. So ya I guess realistically I would only be able to get 1 server with this budget if I want it to be higher end. Anyways thanks for any help you guys can give.
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02-09-2012, 02:28 PM
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> good graphics card
Why is your server going to be rendering the graphics for the games you might host? I have only heard of one other service that does this kind of thing, and it is OnLive.
Most game servers typically only handle the peer to peer connections and overhead and don't actually do any rendering.
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02-09-2012, 03:11 PM
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Oh I was under the impression that some games run better on a server with a decent graphics card. I guess I won't be needing a good graphics card then, thanks for letting me know.
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02-09-2012, 03:14 PM
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Well, I think it depends on how exactly the server will be hosting the game. I'm no expert, but I've hosted some Steam games on a basic VPS before to great effect. There are many other ways to host games, however. Depends on what you're after....
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02-09-2012, 03:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by asphixiations
Oh I was under the impression that some games run better on a server with a decent graphics card. I guess I won't be needing a good graphics card then, thanks for letting me know.
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No...........................
For PLAYING the games, it runs better. Although we are talking hosting, where a graphics card is not involved in any way.
You should really know this stuff, before attempting to start your own business.
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02-09-2012, 05:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NateN34
No...........................
For PLAYING the games, it runs better. Although we are talking hosting, where a graphics card is not involved in any way.
You should really know this stuff, before attempting to start your own business.
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Ok so no graphics card then. Would appreciate a good server config instead of you telling me what I should know thanks.
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02-09-2012, 06:06 PM
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Take a look to Supermicro server based on socket 1366
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02-09-2012, 06:13 PM
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Got a dedi from webtropia (the professional one) its an i5 2.67ghz with 6gb ram.. it runs around 7-8 gameservers (css, l4d2, kf, etc) teamspeak, website and loads more.. the average load is always <1 (mostly being 0.80 or so)
SSD will cost an extra 20€/m and the base for the dedi is 49.99
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02-09-2012, 06:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deltahost
Take a look to Supermicro server based on socket 1366
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Ya thanks, was looking at the reviews for the Supermicro motherboard on newegg and it had mostly good reviews
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02-09-2012, 07:28 PM
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02-09-2012, 07:42 PM
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$4k will be you a lot of server with Supermicro. I assume you are looking to buy the server then collocate it? Any reason you at going tha route rather than just leaving per month.?
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02-09-2012, 09:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HivelocityGM
$4k will be you a lot of server with Supermicro. I assume you are looking to buy the server then collocate it? Any reason you at going tha route rather than just leaving per month.?
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Sorry for my typos... I always screw up when typing on my iPad. That should have said "any reason you are going that route rather than leasing per month?".
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02-09-2012, 09:22 PM
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What games will you be hosting?
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02-09-2012, 09:26 PM
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I'd honestly suggest that you do a lot more research before purchasing hardware and trying to colocate it. There's a lot you need to know on the software side of things, as well as the hardware before you end up throwing away money because you didn't fully understand what you were doing.
If you want to learn the software, I'd suggest starting off with a relatively inexpensive unmanaged KVM VPS and learning how to host the software you want and configure it appropriately.
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02-10-2012, 01:13 AM
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You guys are right, it does seem rather expensive to colocate since you need to purchase the server, and to make it cost effective you need a client base. So I might just lease per month to start out. And for games ill plan on hosting minecraft, valve games,mw3 and others depending on the server specs.
Also I was planning on getting the server managed so any server problems would be taken care of.
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