Hello,
As an intro, i'd like to mantion (for all those flamers etc) that i am with ragezone since years although i dont post much - i never do when i dont have to say anything - you pro guys doing a very nice job in here so there is no need for any smartassing etc.
Thanks to the guide by hicks (and his predecessors) i managed to launch the L2C4 server (as earlier the L2C1 some years ago along with L2J)
At the moment i used it only to play around with, messing with classes, setups etc but i dont hide that in the nearest furture, after i get some things up and running correctly i am gonna publish it.
And here come my question:
How much bandwith - roughly daily/monthly average does a server with say 1000 players use.
I ask here for some details on connection load and daily/monthly transfer rates.
At the moment i am running it (along with my job projects) on a Dell poweredge Tower Server i got from my company with following specs:
Dual Xeon 3,0Ghz Duo Core CPU's
6/8GB RAM
2x250GB SATA HDD's
The connection at this moment is irrelevant for me, as i connect to it through LAN on a Gigabit Card at the moment - connection for it later on.
What would you recommend ?
I am planning to get one of our Dell 1U duo-socket Rack servers which we dont use (buy it from the company on the present setup and upgrade it)
What options shall i keep in mind ?
The max i can put into one of those babies are 2,66GHz Quad Core Xeon's (up to two of them) and max 32GB RAM.
Also it has the option to house up to 4 73GB SAS Hard Drives with 15,000rpm
Now i wonder,
What is the effect if it comes to the CPU's ?
RAM is obvious - the more, the better
HDD Space - those HDD's are on a Raid setup so effectively it would be 2x73GB on 4 drives - enough for the server and database ?
Or just keep with the two 250/500GB drives at 7200rpm on same RAID setup?
Any point keeping one powerful machine for gameserver, NPC server and DB Server or better split into 3 smaller ones, let's say all three with two Duo-Core 2,0GHz CPU's and 8GB RAM each.
Money is a little issue as i can get the parts through the company at Bargain prices.
As for the connection.
i know that in the long run a 100mBit dedicated would be needed but for now i would keep it on the 250mBit shared with the whole server room we have (i have that option).
What is the roughly average load on the bandwidth ?
Once, for MUOnline we had a project to count an average bandwidth usage per user per day aswell as resources usage on same.
Anyone did something similar here ?
Please, no comments about "you never gonna afford this" because i wouldnt ask if i havent had a point in it.
Any constructive feedback welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Airam
As an intro, i'd like to mantion (for all those flamers etc) that i am with ragezone since years although i dont post much - i never do when i dont have to say anything - you pro guys doing a very nice job in here so there is no need for any smartassing etc.
Thanks to the guide by hicks (and his predecessors) i managed to launch the L2C4 server (as earlier the L2C1 some years ago along with L2J)
At the moment i used it only to play around with, messing with classes, setups etc but i dont hide that in the nearest furture, after i get some things up and running correctly i am gonna publish it.
And here come my question:
How much bandwith - roughly daily/monthly average does a server with say 1000 players use.
I ask here for some details on connection load and daily/monthly transfer rates.
At the moment i am running it (along with my job projects) on a Dell poweredge Tower Server i got from my company with following specs:
Dual Xeon 3,0Ghz Duo Core CPU's
6/8GB RAM
2x250GB SATA HDD's
The connection at this moment is irrelevant for me, as i connect to it through LAN on a Gigabit Card at the moment - connection for it later on.
What would you recommend ?
I am planning to get one of our Dell 1U duo-socket Rack servers which we dont use (buy it from the company on the present setup and upgrade it)
What options shall i keep in mind ?
The max i can put into one of those babies are 2,66GHz Quad Core Xeon's (up to two of them) and max 32GB RAM.
Also it has the option to house up to 4 73GB SAS Hard Drives with 15,000rpm
Now i wonder,
What is the effect if it comes to the CPU's ?
RAM is obvious - the more, the better
HDD Space - those HDD's are on a Raid setup so effectively it would be 2x73GB on 4 drives - enough for the server and database ?
Or just keep with the two 250/500GB drives at 7200rpm on same RAID setup?
Any point keeping one powerful machine for gameserver, NPC server and DB Server or better split into 3 smaller ones, let's say all three with two Duo-Core 2,0GHz CPU's and 8GB RAM each.
Money is a little issue as i can get the parts through the company at Bargain prices.
As for the connection.
i know that in the long run a 100mBit dedicated would be needed but for now i would keep it on the 250mBit shared with the whole server room we have (i have that option).
What is the roughly average load on the bandwidth ?
Once, for MUOnline we had a project to count an average bandwidth usage per user per day aswell as resources usage on same.
Anyone did something similar here ?
Please, no comments about "you never gonna afford this" because i wouldnt ask if i havent had a point in it.
Any constructive feedback welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Airam