Server Rental?
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Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8335Members
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I run an online gaming company based in the UK and after careful consideration or without making the cost stupid for the gamers, it is unlikely that I will be offering NS servers in the near future as they consume a lot more cpu than the likes of cs and tfc, although as a good point the bandwidth is lower.
I suspect that other gaming server providers are in the same situation, either charge a stupid amount for the servers or just dont offer them. I know that NS is a pushing hl to its limits but its a shame that it aint really practical to be able to offer it at the same price as any other mod.
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Hi,
It would be pretty expensive to rent a NS server. Probably $10-12 per player. What size server are you looking for? I can help you out and negotiate a price. If interested you may email me: admin@blackwidowservers.com
Thanks.
16 players takes about 85% of an 1800 mhz cpu. He seems to be offering a box for 160-192 a month talk to him.
dex
16 players takes about 85% of an 1800 mhz cpu. He seems to be offering a box for 160-192 a month talk to him.
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Uhh... no, no its not
Thats over $100 just for a game server...
<a href='http://www.rackshack.net' target='_blank'>Better...</a>
Email: zer0soul@hotmail.com for information.
The servers are on t3 connection and are priced per player basis. The server is phyiscally located in California, but we have customers that play from all over the U.S.
Later
Zer0Soul@hotmail.com
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I rent out servers, and there is no way I could do NS for less than $13 per player at the current level of CPU usage these servers require.
Email: zer0soul@hotmail.com for details.
We run nothing less than dual amd 1800+ systems with a gig of ram a piece, and all our server sit on an unmetered OC12. If I charged less than $13 a head I'd never be able to afford to upgrading systems to increase the quality of the service provided...
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
-peace
Zer0soul@hotmail.com for details on server rentals.
We could sure beat the $10 per person rate just by referring to Rackshack.
Personally I enjoy having shell access and complete control over a server I own... not just renting a game server.
Hi,
I can do $10 per player for the server you want up to 24 players. I can do 32 players minus a few maps like bast and hera. That is at cost. I pray that they update this mod for lower cpu usage. Then the price will drop accordingly. If and when they update the mod to use less cpu then my price will drop accordingly. But, I cant go lower then $10 per player. This mod uses twice the cpu as UT2003. If you email me then I will explain my server configuration,data center,bandwidth and what server rental company is backing me in this. I wont post it all here seeing I will get bashed or start some war of words which I dont want to be involved with. Ping my server at 66.150.31.60
My servers are in Atlanta. I believe that deadlyservers.com just setup some servers in Chicago with XO Communications. I cant say how XO is as far as connection or hops , But email Dan at deadlyservers he might be able to help you. I also understand that artofwarcentral.com has servers in Chicago now. So you can email Falcon or Deadheart. I only know of gamegenie.com with servers in New York. I believe thats the closest you will get to Boston right now. If I knew of someone closer I would tell you. Oh , try xgamingservers.com they just colocated with a new data center. Sorry I cant remember right now where but on the East Coast.
Thanks
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Hehe, their Houston servers are hosted at Rackshack also.
They do have good prices though.
We could sure beat the $10 per person rate just by referring to Rackshack.
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Sounds like a plan to me. So we pay $150/month for cabinet space then pay for bandwidth. The smallest available bandwidth rate will run us at least $225/month for 512kbs. Then we need to buy the server with dual procs of at least 1.5mhz for a minimum price of $2000. That will allow us to run 2 Natural Selection virtual servers at 16, maybe 18 players.
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If you would like to learn more, let me know.
As for renting them I think that I could put together a server for people not inclined to do it themselves. You could host two 14 player servers on one of the P4 2ghz boxes, which run $130 or so. Charge $70 per NS 14 player server and you are now at $5 a player slot.
Fairly easy to understand how that works.
If you would like to learn more, let me know.
As for renting them I think that I could put together a server for people not inclined to do it themselves. You could host two 14 player servers on one of the P4 2ghz boxes, which run $130 or so. Charge $70 per NS 14 player server and you are now at $5 a player slot.
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Interesting numbers. But, they are a little off. If you figure 8000bits per player, per second. For an 18 player server thats a monthly total of 373gb of traffic. You know? 144,000bits per second x 60seconds = 1 minute x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 30 days = 373gb's of travel. Granted you dont allow downloads,uploads,stats and never connect to the server to upload mods or edit the configs. Enough for 1 virtual server. But, then again those servers are configured for webhosting and and you would be lucky to get a 14 player cs virtual server out of it. With 1 P4 proc you couldnt get (2) 14player NS servers out of it. You might get (1) 14player NS at the most from that. But, hey you can come teach me anytime you want. I am always looking to learn new things. And please let me know when you get the server from rackshack. I will rent both 14 player NS games from you for $5.00 per player if you can keep the server from crashing.
Of course I am probably wrong along with all the other people that get servers at rackshack.net for the purpose of using them as a game server.
On a side note, please go to rackshack.net and read their forums. It appears that they seem to know what they are able to offer more then people that don't use them know.