Dedicated Server Hardware Recommendations

Game-SlothGame-Sloth Join Date: 2011-01-06 Member: 76371Members
edited January 2011 in NS2 General Discussion
I am thinking of setting up a dedicated server in the Seattle region.
I found a farm offering the following with unlimited bandwidth.
<blockquote>AMD Athlon64 X2 4450e 2.3 GHz
4GB RAM
250GB SATA HD
100Mbit dedicated port
Windows 2003 Web Edition</blockquote>
My goal is to have two games running simultaneously.
The first will be supporting the full 32 slots.
The second will be primarily focused on community submitted maps and modders.

I would like to eventually run Linux instead.
It seems strange that physx is require on the server side - Is this still true?

I want to provide the best experience possible.
Any thoughts or concerns.
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  • IronHorseIronHorse Developer, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributor Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
    yes.. +1 for west coast.
    you should go through Nuclear Fallout servers tho. (nfo)
    i've used them before in the past, and they are incredibly fast
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  • ctoon6ctoon6 Join Date: 2007-06-15 Member: 61256Members
    I don't think you will get 32 players in 1 server and it be playable. at most id say you will only get 1 server with 16 players. the server performance just isn't that great atm, so 32 player games might be economically possible in the future but not now. if the dedicated server software is only single core you can probably/should do 2 because one wont use both cores anyway, if the dedicated server isn't multi threaded.
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