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11-06-2007, 06:11 AM #1New Member
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General Knowledge help!
Hi, I wish to buy myself a server and do it in co-location but the problem with it now is that I don't know much things about server as I have been a reseller for like only 6months. And so, I intend to offer steam game hosting. (Counterstrike 1.6, etc.) I hope that you guys can help me out.
Questions:
1) Will the server specs shows my game hosting performance? I mean like if compare to a good and a average server both are hosting game servers and both are not overselling. Which one will have a better performance?
2) Does bandwidth make that much difference in web hosting or any other services?
3) Per MBPS contains how much bandwidth?
4) Let's say I have 5K now. Do you guys recommend me to buy a $5k server or buy a few $1K-2K plus server?
Thanks for your time, hope you'll have a great day!
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11-06-2007, 12:18 PM #2Newbie
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1. If you want optimal performance, do not overload the box's capabilities.
2. If you want to sell gameservers, you need premium bandwidth. Gamers aren't the most forgiving customers, and a few milliseconds difference in ping times could make or break you.
3. You can push 125 kilobytes per second on a 1 megabit per second line.
4. No to be critical, but I think you should do a little bit more research before you dive into the game hosting market. It's difficult and as I mentioned before, not very forgiving. Consider leasing a dedicated server and testing out the waters.
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11-06-2007, 07:42 PM #4New Member
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Thanks! But for co-location, they offer 1U space that means only 1 server can be put inside the rack? And they also offered me 2 plans.
Shared Bandwidth (80GB Monthly Data Transfer) 100MBPS
Dedicated Bandwidth (Unlimited Data Transfer) 1MBPS
Which one would you guys prefer me on trying out?
Hmmm, dedicated server. I'll give it a try but I will have to install all the securities are stuff myself right?
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11-06-2007, 10:27 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Neither one of those plans are going to be enough if you become popular. You might want to find a plan that will either give you
A. At least 200GB monthly transfer
or
B. 3Mbps - Unlimited data transfer
Then you can upgrade that as needed, but thats a somewhat safe margin i think.
As the others have suggested, you really should get a dedicated server and try this yourself for a couple months before buying a server, and renting rack space. Yes you'll have to do security and what not yourself(unless you hire a management company), but you'll have to do that yourself anyway if you buy a server.