Ns Game Servers $2 Per Player
masterswordman
Join Date: 2002-12-21 Member: 11303Members
Join Date: 2002-12-21 Member: 11303Members
<div class="IPBDescription">ON COGENT</div> Just pointing stuff out, cogent is not good for running game servers. Sure at low usage times it's ping is 78, so your game server ping will be about 200 counting the clients and the sever lag. AND THATS FOR THE BASIC's.
I can get a cogent connection 1 Mbps for $60 a month. Or 10 Mbps and a free dedicated server for under $400 from rackshack. Simply put, if you have a major website, and need lots of bandwith, and are gonna be streaming. COGENT is for you.
If you are gonna be hosting gaming servers consider Verio, it's $125 a month, but the ping from my computer is 28, that's a server that will compete with Griffen Run. Yes I could run a cheap servers like those ace guys, on cogent.
Also notice that the Connections most server providers list is the *FACILITY* connections, not theirs, so beware guys.
I can get a cogent connection 1 Mbps for $60 a month. Or 10 Mbps and a free dedicated server for under $400 from rackshack. Simply put, if you have a major website, and need lots of bandwith, and are gonna be streaming. COGENT is for you.
If you are gonna be hosting gaming servers consider Verio, it's $125 a month, but the ping from my computer is 28, that's a server that will compete with Griffen Run. Yes I could run a cheap servers like those ace guys, on cogent.
Also notice that the Connections most server providers list is the *FACILITY* connections, not theirs, so beware guys.
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And you can get a rackshack server for $99, not $400. And that includes 400 gigs per month of transfer, which is roughly equivalent to saturating a full megabit for a full month, 24/7, which is a lot more than most game servers will use. It's a hell of a deal. I have one myself. Not sure what their bandwidth is burstable to, but I'd imagine the 100 megabit link from my server to the switch/router is probably the slowest link.
The only thing about rackshack is, you have to manage the entire server yourself. Nobody is going to set up the NS server for you. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
"Or 10 Mbps and a free dedicated server for under $400 from rackshack"
10 Mbps of unmetered transfer costs $400 at rack shack.
DAMN.
Mainly I replied to correct your "warning" about connections. No need for you to spread uncertainty and doubt about what others are offering here. They're providing a needed service for the NS game community. If they are saying they are hosting their servers at some data center with fast pipes, when they are really just on some fractional T1 in their basement, that would be a different story, but I have yet to see such an example, and you certainly haven't pointed any out that I know of.
there'd be no point in paying 400/mo for 1 server on a 10mbps connection as you'd never user over 512kbps of it (runnining one 20 player server)
Even with their $100/mo box (a celery 1.something) its gonna cost you $5+ per slot
www.rackshack.net
-d$
that's all... not dissin' anyone here, i've got two RS boxes... one for NS and one for everything else
my 20 player box uses a tiny fraction of the network and bandwidth provision:
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-d$
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I'm confused by this statement. Are you saying you wouldn't run an NS server on a 10 megabit unmetered connection? If that's what you're saying, why? And what kind of connection are you buying from RS for your NS server? You sound like you have a clue, so either I'm missing something your you typoed that statement. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Nice graph ... is that RRDTool?
Both my NS server (an amd1700xp) and webbox (celery 1.3) are on 100mpbs connections and 'limited' to 400gb of traffic each.
For the 20 player NS server, here is some cumulative bandwidth usage:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Total Out 4.29 Gb Total In 3.65 Gb
Total (In + Out) Bandwidth: 7.93 Gb
Todays Usage 314.70 Mb
Daily Average for Current Month 905.00 Mb
Your Monthly Bandwidth Quota is: 400 Gb
You have used <b>1.98%</b> of your allowed Bandwidth
Last Updated: 2/9/03 3:48:53 AM
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The server's not full but 4 or 5 hours a day but even if you quadruple the bw usage, it would still fall way short of 400gb.
Bandwidth's not the issue with running a game server. It'd be different if you had 20 boxes hooked up to the one 10mbps connection but as it is, its a single celeron 1.3ghz box that might be good for 16 player slots. ($400/16 = $25/slot).
I guess this may be a little off topic from the original post...
-d$
I have a box similar to one of yours at RackShack, it's a 1U Compaq P4 2GHz, and I have the same 400GB traffic limit that most have. I don't run a public NS server on it because I use the box for commercial site hosting. However I am thinking about running a public NS server on a 1.4 megabit SDSL line I have locally, so it's good to see the traffic numbers for your server.
Thanks for the clarification.
Total In (Gigs) 86.11
Total Out (Gigs) 75.91
Total (Gigs) 162.02
This is over a 1 month period.