Hello,

I'm trying to do the following:

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One Website With:
- Invision Forums
- Custom Map Downloads for the servers
- Player Stats.
24-Man Counter-Strike Public
10-Man Counter-Strike Private
20-Man FarCry Public
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I have come up with three options on how to host these, tell me, with you're experience, what would be the best way;

Two Of These:

$99 Server - SuperCeleron 2.4
• Intel Celeron - 2.4 Ghz
• 99.9% SLA Guarantee
• 512 MB RAM
• Red Hat
• 80 GB ATA 100 HDD
• Silver Managed Hosting Service
• 1000 GB Bandwidth
• Control Panel Software Available

• $99 Setup / $79 Month
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One Of These:

$199 Server - SuperGamerz
• Intel P4 - 3.0Ghz w/ hyper-threading
• 8MB Video Card
• 800 MHz Front Side Bus
• 99.9% SLA Guarantee
• 1024 MB RAM
• Linux Operating System
• 120 GB 7200 RPM HDD
• Silver Managed Hosting Service
• Control Panel Software Available
•100Mbps Ethernet port/1000 GB Bandwidth

• $99 Setup / $179 Month
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One Of These:

$199 Server - SuperXeon
• Dual Intel Xeon - 2.4Ghz
• 8MB Video Card
• 1024 MB RAM
• 99.9% SLA Guarantee
• 80 GB 7200 RPM HDD
• Linux Operating System
• Dual Integrated NICS
• Silver Managed Hosting Service
• 1000 GB Bandwidth
• Control Panel Software Available

• $99 Setup / $179 Month
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On the first option, we would do the following:

Box One:
Website/Forum/Downloads
Both Counter-Strike Servers 24-Man Public/12-Man Private

Box Two:
FarCry 20-Man Public

On the second and third option, we'd have all of them on the same box.



Please help us me out and let me know what you think would run best,

-sYs73m

get a dual xeon upgrade the ram to 2 gigs and upgrade the Hd to 200 gb so youll have enough room for your website and all those servers. and make sure you get 13 ips that makes 8 usable. you can stay with 8 ip's but some of you cs servers will not have a default 27015 port with is ok but some people dont like that

I would go with the dual xeon's and run everything from it.

The Dual Xeon would be your best bet. One of our servers is configured similar to your plans:

-- Dual Xeon -- 1gb EEC RAM

5 Websites, 2 of which are basicly what you'll be running.
20-man UT2004 OnSlaught Server
24-man UT2004 OnSlaught Server
16-man UT2004 DM Server
16-man UT2004 CTF Server
2-man UT2004 1 vs. 1 DM Server


The RAM drops to around 350mb free, and the CPUs spike out around 70% when all servers are loaded. The only time the CPU hits over 70% is when several servers hit map change together.

Holy lord!

Those servers heavier than both of my Counter-Strike ones together, and the FarCry.

Thanks a ton LunchBox, I'll be buying the Duel Xeons. <3

Anyone know the cost for installing programs on the server?

(FarCry and Steam Deticated.)

why not do it yourself

Don't know how too, if I did, I'd do it.

And I'm sort of lazy to sit here and read through a 10 page walkthrough...

i see well i guess you have to pay then

just install it on your computer and it it works do the exact same thing on your server

If your paying... im availiable

same here

Hahah

for the love of pizza ill do it for free what games?

I think I may be all set now Jangles, the guy who backed out was decent enough to call me up and say he wanted to help me out.

I guess he may have felt bad for just leaving me in the dust.

I'll let you know if I need help but I really, really appriciate the help you guys have given me, you're all great. =)

NP