HiveGaming.net ; offering free servers for a limited time
Mkilbride
Join Date: 2010-01-07 Member: 69952Members
Join Date: 2010-01-07 Member: 69952Members
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This is my friends site, he's trying to break into the server business...I know, I know, however, I figured I'd help him and we came up with a lil deal here.
Clans that show activity and interest in our high quality servers will be allowed to have a one week testing period, where they can see how they like them, absolutely free, no restrictions. If after the first week, you'd like to continue using the server, you can snag it @ 50% off for the first two months, after that, normal fee's apply. We only ask that you at least advertise where you got your servers from, perhaps in the servers name, or just on your forums.
Seeing as NS2 is still a small community, I thought this would be a good place to do this, for people wanting to setup their own server, and perhaps see how it's going to run, if they get any activity, or anything. There's absolutely no negatives here, you pay nothing if you end up not wanting the server. Of course, we'd hope you would like and want to keep the server.
These are cheap prices, and good hardware really. If this constitutes as spam, I'm sorry, and if it's the wrong section, I couldn't really guess where to put it, and close it if you must, but I figured I'd help out a friend and potential server owners.
Proof of our servers:
<img src="http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/162/msiafterburner201110091.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
This is my friends site, he's trying to break into the server business...I know, I know, however, I figured I'd help him and we came up with a lil deal here.
Clans that show activity and interest in our high quality servers will be allowed to have a one week testing period, where they can see how they like them, absolutely free, no restrictions. If after the first week, you'd like to continue using the server, you can snag it @ 50% off for the first two months, after that, normal fee's apply. We only ask that you at least advertise where you got your servers from, perhaps in the servers name, or just on your forums.
Seeing as NS2 is still a small community, I thought this would be a good place to do this, for people wanting to setup their own server, and perhaps see how it's going to run, if they get any activity, or anything. There's absolutely no negatives here, you pay nothing if you end up not wanting the server. Of course, we'd hope you would like and want to keep the server.
These are cheap prices, and good hardware really. If this constitutes as spam, I'm sorry, and if it's the wrong section, I couldn't really guess where to put it, and close it if you must, but I figured I'd help out a friend and potential server owners.
Proof of our servers:
<img src="http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/162/msiafterburner201110091.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
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If you can get in touch with more details, that would be awesome!
@ Half price, that's a friggin steal.
One of the questions we are getting a lot is price per slot and understandably so. Given that system resources for NS2 are a bit on the high end we have set our price as follows.
Public $1.70 a slot - Private $1.15 a slot We feel this is a fair price given system resources and other GSP's coming in @ $1.99 to $2.40 a slot.
Not only are our prices the lowest in the industry. We will also give you a free week to try out the server at no cost to you! Then we will give it to you at 50% off for the next 2 moths if you order this month.
Also please note we are still setting up the NS2 game servers so they are not ready for order as of yet. However they should be ready sometime tonight. As always if you need to ask us anything please do so. We will also post here when NS2 servers are ready to order.
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One of the questions we are getting a lot is price per slot and understandably so. Given that system resources for NS2 are a bit on the high end we have set our price as follows.
Public $1.70 a slot - Private $1.15 a slot We feel this is a fair price given system resources and other GSP's coming in @ $1.99 to $2.40 a slot.
Not only are our prices the lowest in the industry. We will also give you a free week to try out the server at no cost to you! Then we will give it to you at 50% off for the next 2 moths if you order this month.
Also please note we are still setting up the NS2 game servers so they are not ready for order as of yet. However they should be ready sometime tonight. As always if you need to ask us anything please do so. We will also post here when NS2 servers are ready to order.
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Thank you, does everyone who orders a NS2 server this weekend get the free trial?
I think Cyd will be getting a server from you guys, just gotta clear it with the rest of the team!
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Yes! Also it's for this hole month not just the weekend. However you will only be able to get 1 free week per clan. Hope this helps :)
L3gacy has now answered it.
Windows Server 2008
SUPERMICRO SYS-6016T-MT 1U Rackmount Servers's
(X2) Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem 2.26GHz LGA 1366 80W Quad-Core Server Processor (16) Cores
CORSAIR 16GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC Registered Server Memory
(X2) HITACHI 1.5TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s W/ HighPoint RocketRAID 2310 PCI Express x4 Controller Card running (Raid 0)
Most important, what are the CPU speeds/processors? The smoothest US servers are basically running high end gamer PCs (i5 2500k/i7 2600k OC'd into the 4.3-4.7GHz range) rather than using conventional server hardware. However, since there isn't much multi-threading/multi-core action happening with NS2 right now, you can effectively run a NS2 server per core (e.g. you can run 4 NS2 servers on an i7 2600k).
Your talking about Intel Xeon E5520 Nehalem server CPU's I can assure you it will host 16 people servers with np.
This is the specs of my current servers:
Box #1
Intel Core i5 2500K @ 4.6 Ghz
8 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600
(1) 500 GB Hitachi 7200 RPM 2.5-Inch HDD
ASUS P8Z68-V Motherboard
Windows Server 2008 RC2
Box #2
Intel Core i7 2600K @ 4.55 Ghz
8 GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600
(1) 500 GB Hitachi 7200 RPM 2.5-Inch HDD
ASUS P8Z68-V Motherboard
Windows Server 2008 RC2
The NS2 servers I have running on these boxes are currently only 16 slot servers. Anything more and they would start dipping in tickrate and people would start complaining.
Not to sound rude or anything, but you are either greatly over estimating the performance of your servers or greatly under estimating how CPU intensive this game is currently.
EDIT: How much Storage are you allowing for the file browser in TS3?
I think it is currently impossible to offer reliable performing servers at a <b>cheap</b> cost, since NS2 is probably one of the most demanding dedicated servers out there.
There's only a few servers that can run 16 person servers, inversion, hbz, 156, and the GP D|S/nade's chicago ones which also are on a inversion box.
They run at extremely high specs much higher then standard game server boxes.
Hope it works out tho!
COmpletely stable. @ 15 players, we had 16, but for some reason, my screenshots from MSI, half of them came out black.
We played two rounds, I was on the server for about 45 minutes, and nothing went wrong.
According to L3gacy, the server load was 3-5%
Remove that "proof" screenshot...
Just let ppl test the servers and let them be your proof.
Can you post a 16 person screenshot with net_stats on? Also, some heavy action screenshots with the aforementioned net_stats would be useful. The issue is less that regular speed CPUs can't run a 16 person server and more that the server tick rate drops into single digit territory during gameplay.
If anyone knows of any tweaks please let me know.
We should have the servers ready for order soon. Like Mkilbride said, no strings attached on your free week trial. If you don't like the server just cancel your order. If you would like to test out a free server for a week please send me a PM on here with your clan name and website if you have one. We will set them up as first come first serve basis.
Let me know if you have any questions.
I'll have a think about it!