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    Which dedicated server should I buy?

    I'm looking to host game servers, only 1 large server for counter-strike source that will host about 50 slots. my budget is around 150-200 a month and I live in Chicago. Which dedicated server would I need such as hardware, bandwidth wise, and what company should I go with? I've tried gigenet, singlehop, and theplanet, but they are too expensive for what you get.. is there a company that I can go with that would be perfect only for game servers?

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    Ziggat, your best bet would be to go with a Intel Core2Duo with 2GB/4GB and will even give you a little bit of room to expand and a machine with 1000GB+ of bandwidth and you should be good to go.

    Good Luck!

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    Make sure to get a lot of bandwidth.

    Aus sucks because you can get a powerful machine but not enough bandwidth to actually fill it up...

    Get at least 1TB.

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    Id recommend an Intel Core2Duo with atleast 4gb of ram and a big harddrive, or an AMD Opteron also with 4gb ram.

    The more ram the better when it comes to games.

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    Agree on the Core2Duo aspect, but we run 10x 34 slot TF2 servers on only 6 GB of RAM. So I am not sure how big of a major factor that would be, 2 GB of RAM would be fine if its only 1x server with 50 slots in my opinion.
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    Agreed with everybody else. You'll be completely fine with those specifications and you should be able to keep it under your budget.

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    Noticed his profile says disabled, iam guessing he probably wont be updating us if he finds a provider.
    Last edited by TheServerExperts; 10-11-2009 at 07:14 PM.

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    Intel Core2Duo with 2GB/4GB agreed. You can easily run your 50 slot server and if you want. You can throw in a couple more servers and it should run just fine. As somebody else said 1TB of bandwith would most likely be a huge overkill. 2-4k Bandwidth would most likely do you fine and leave you room to do more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ziggat View Post
    I'm looking to host game servers, only 1 large server for counter-strike source that will host about 50 slots. my budget is around 150-200 a month and I live in Chicago. Which dedicated server would I need such as hardware, bandwidth wise, and what company should I go with? I've tried gigenet, singlehop, and theplanet, but they are too expensive for what you get.. is there a company that I can go with that would be perfect only for game servers?
    You should ask ColoCrossing for a dedicated server in Chicago, they are widely used by most of the moderately sized GSPs. I am sure that you would be able to get a Dual Core, 4gb of RAM, 250GB, 100mbit w/ 2TB transfer less than $100. Usually you are going to have to barter with them on live chat, but either way you would get what you want for a good price.

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    Op is disabled. lol

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