My standard setup for running 6 to 8 - 12-14 player servers on a single machine and costs about $800 to $1000 if you shop around a little. Also, I've never seen them all have max players all at one time so I don't know if they would perform.
Its: Athlon XP (whatever is onsale at the time, usually 1600+ to 1800+) Mobo, whatever happens to be at a good price and has a good review. I usually pick between ASUS or Gigabyte. I think I have a couple Soyo Dragon's too. Usually 768 megs of SDR or DDR ram depending on the mobo, sometimes 1 gig. Video is a usually $20 AGP special. I've ben getting a lot of TNT2 cards lately. A decent network card. I'm an old school bay networks fan and I liked their NetGear products a lot back in the day but 3com has some nice NICs and so does Intel if you want to spend the extra money. A Tekram DC-390U2W SCSI card A decent name brand SCSI drive, usually 8 gig, UW2. You don't need much space for 6 to 8 servers and linux. I don't go IDE because in every situation with over 3 servers running its failed to perform for me. While 1 server changes maps, the others would experience "shudders". Plus the machine can double as a web server/log parser without lagging the game servers. A decent case with power amd approved power supply. A floppy drive in case you need to do the boot disk thing with linux one day. I don't put CDRom's in the servers permanantly. I use one for installing linux then I take it out. They also don't get a keyboard, mouse, monitor, or anything like that. Anwyay, thats my setup. hope it helps. On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 09:07, Dan wrote: > dual p3 800mhz [coppermine] > 1gig ram > > should be sufficiant for 6 hlds_l's on linux > > tiSSue > www.cs.jolt.co.uk > News + League + Server Admin :) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "craig kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:01 PM > Subject: [hlds_linux] 6 servers > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > -- > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > What would it take to run 6 servers on one box? > > > > Single or Dual CPU's? > > > > What would the minimum requirements be? > > > > Connection is not the issue, horsepower is? > > > > Any ideas? > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
