From the Datacenter's perspective, they generally oversell the hardware that runs the Virtual (VPS) servers, meaning they do not anticipate each of those VPS instances to use gobs of CPU as they would if running any game servers. I have seen several Datacenters that state plainly in their terms of service that if your VPS is using more than its fair share of CPU power they will ask you to upgrade to a dedicated box. Your provider may differ on this but that's a general rule of thumb that I have seen. You might want to tell them what you will be running on it and see what they say before going with it and finding out later they are pulling the plug on your servers.
While it is possible to run servers on a Vitual machine setup, you will use more CPU and get less performance out of a VPS. If you think of a VPS as like 1/2 to 1/3 the power of a low end Celeron dedicated box, that's probably the amount of load you would want to run on it at maximum, otherwise you might as well be on a dedicated server. Granted these VPS's can span multiple high end CPUs but they are not really intended to utilize them all on a consistent basis. I can't talk to Linux VPS's but I once ran 2 VMWare server instances on Windows. (When UT3 came out it would only install on XP so that is what we had to use at the time). Each instance of VMWare had one UT3 server installed with the number of player slots not too large (10-16) and used about 35% of a Core2 Duo 6600, so you could only really run 2 of them on that dedicated box. Without VMWare you could run about 10 game servers on that hardware no problem. (Less if you are talking high FPS servers such as 500-1000FPS CSS servers.) I really would not recommend that on a Virtual server, high end dedicated boxes have a hard enough time keeping up with those rates. If you want to run lower speed 33 tick 100FPS settings then you might be able to get away with it, but it is not really the recommended way to go. I will look forward to see what Saint K has to say, feel free to surprise us. Saint K. wrote: > I can shed some light on that after the weekend. > > Cheers, > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:13 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] HLDS Consumption > > There was a discussion about this not too long ago. the general consensus > was that virtual servers were not a good choice to run game servers on. > > I know Saint K was going to do some testing in a VS and post some numbers > but we haven't heard back from him yet. > > > >> They offered me a virtual server... Will it work? >> They said me that i can test the server 30 days free... >> But i think it will not work... ¿What do you think? >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: >> >>> Did you get hit by their huge fire before? >>> >>> @never: that does sound sucky. I have quite a few SA friends so I've >>> heard how tough it is in places. 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