What kind of server
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What kind of server
I am considering starting my own bzFlag server. I'd like to know what kind of connection/machine the most popular servers run off of. Namely servers like ducati, turkey.moongroup.com, and hashmark.net.
Are they hosted off of a private machine at your residence or off of a paid webserver? Will a regular web hosting machine work or do you have to rent a game server (expensive)?
What kind of monthly bandwidth do you go through? Would 8 Gb monthly do?
I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do this. I know Smooth hosts his server off his home cable connection, but with more than 4 players it gets laggy really quickly.
If anyone can give me some info it would be greatly appreciated.
Are they hosted off of a private machine at your residence or off of a paid webserver? Will a regular web hosting machine work or do you have to rent a game server (expensive)?
What kind of monthly bandwidth do you go through? Would 8 Gb monthly do?
I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do this. I know Smooth hosts his server off his home cable connection, but with more than 4 players it gets laggy really quickly.
If anyone can give me some info it would be greatly appreciated.
Ducati is an old P-75 with 40 MB or RAM. It is connected via a 10Mbit/s ethernet interface to the University network. The University itself has a 34Mbit/s link to the outside world. Visit http://www.home.unix-ag.org/thilo/bzflag/ducati/ for some real network utilization data for ducati (old date, but config hasn't changed).
In general, you need a fast upstream because the amount of outgoing data will be approximately n times higher than the incoming traffic, where n is the number of active players on the server.
In general, you need a fast upstream because the amount of outgoing data will be approximately n times higher than the incoming traffic, where n is the number of active players on the server.
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I hosted a server for a short period of time on a 1.5 Mbit down / 128 Kbit up connection. It was, at maximum (and then BIG lag developed), able to handle about 6 players.
Like Chestal said, upstream bandwidth is more important than downstream. If you had a 512Kbit upstream connection, you'd probably be fine with 10-15 players, I would wager.
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Like Chestal said, upstream bandwidth is more important than downstream. If you had a 512Kbit upstream connection, you'd probably be fine with 10-15 players, I would wager.
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Just make sure that you have large enough bandwidth for the number of players/observers your server is setup for.
Goto:
http://www.shellshock.dutchrai.com/refe ... quirements
for more info.
Goto:
http://www.shellshock.dutchrai.com/refe ... quirements
for more info.
bandwidth, etc.
I am running secretplace.us. You can see the number of people/amount of bandwidth used at my mrtg page at mrtg.tiphareth.net. 1.2 mbps is about the peak usage. The box is on 100mpbs to the backbone, so it's wide open, so you should see an accurate usage.
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Re: What kind of server
EvilChickenNugget wrote:I am considering starting my own bzFlag server. I'd like to know what kind of connection/machine the most popular servers run off of. Namely servers like ducati, turkey.moongroup.com, and hashmark.net.
Are they hosted off of a private machine at your residence or off of a paid webserver? Will a regular web hosting machine work or do you have to rent a game server (expensive)?
What kind of monthly bandwidth do you go through? Would 8 Gb monthly do?
I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do this. I know Smooth hosts his server off his home cable connection, but with more than 4 players it gets laggy really quickly.
If anyone can give me some info it would be greatly appreciated.
[csm@turkey csm]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 300.687
cache size : 512 KB
[csm@turkey csm]$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 63221760 62541824 679936 0 34529280 20090880
Swap: 134795264 2056192 132739072
NB. bzflag was running when this meminfo was captured.
Turkey's connection is 5xT1's IOW a frac DS3 bundle.
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I've been running my server off and on now for a few weeks and it seems to run ok with 3-4 people, can't take much more than that though due to the fact I only have a 384kb/s upload rate.
I'm going to be getting a server running on a much higher bandwidth connection soon, so hopefully I won't have to strain my cable any longer
Thanks for all the info guys.
I'm going to be getting a server running on a much higher bandwidth connection soon, so hopefully I won't have to strain my cable any longer
Thanks for all the info guys.
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