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| Hammereditor5:
Wait a minute... My attitude of "benchmarks are solid" may be false! Cowboy told me today how he was able to host 99 players @ 50k bricks with only 19% CPU usage. My belief that benchmarks are solid proof would make me think that only a Core i7-4930K would suffice. I also remembered that Kalphiter was able to host 130+ players on a single core of an AMD Opteron 3280 once. When I heard this from Cowboy I thought, "How is this possible"? So tomorrow, I and Cowboy6 decided to do some thorough tests with Winter bite and CPU usage. We will connect up to 10 clients to the server on each test, and record the CPU usage. One test will be performed on CBMhost's server, while another is performed on HammerHost. I also thought of doing an optional test on my old computer's Athlon II x4 635 (which is similar to CBM's CPU). This will find out once and for all if I misjudged the 10-player limit of HammerHost's CPU on Winter bite. What happened is that I extrapolated the CPU usage from just 4 players. Now I've realized is that the only way to test if my VPS can hold more than 10 players is to... actually connect 10 players to it. |
| Kniaz:
Blockland hosting doesn't seriously use up a lot of CPU. You won't need loving HAL to run Frostbite. |
| Rub:
--- Quote from: Hammereditor5 on March 17, 2014, 12:51:35 AM --- --- End quote --- Sorry to burst your bubble but you're never going to get the performance of the hosts single core speed with 1 vCPU as CPU time is scheduled and shared amongst the other VM guests on the machine. I don't think a VPS is ever going to work well for you, you need a reliable and predictable amount of CPU time to ensure you have enough resources for all clients, regardless of what they're hosting, and that isn't achievable when you're sharing a CPU with an unknown amount of people. Having multiple cores is a great help too, we could have a couple of servers in a crashed state consuming 100% of a core and still have no performance degradation as there was still plenty of CPU time to cope with demand. RTB servers were oversold in terms of CPU, but it was carefully managed and monitored to ensure servers with high resource use were split across different hosts. I suggest you look around for some deals on dedicated servers, RTB paid no where near list price for any of the old i5 servers with HoneLive (http://www.honelive.com/) or the newer Xeon servers with ServerMania - that allowed us to afford premium server hardware and offer it at an affordable price. Just for the record we had e3-1270v3 not v2 :) |
| Hammereditor5:
--- Quote from: Rub on March 17, 2014, 04:47:15 AM ---Sorry to burst your bubble but you're never going to get the performance of the hosts single core speed with 1 vCPU --- End quote --- No, I have 3 virtual CPU cores, not one. Well, I just cannot afford a dedicated server right now. It's impossible due to the scale of my hosting service. --- Quote from: Rub on March 17, 2014, 04:47:15 AM ---I suggest you look around for some deals on dedicated servers --- End quote --- Well, I have 2 good choices, which are from Hosting above: • $80: Xeon L5410 (quad-core), 16 GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB HDD • $100: Dual Xeon L5410, 24 GB DDR2 RAM, 1 TB HDD To get any of these, I'll need to fill up my current VPS in order to prove that I will get enough clients to pay for most of the cost of a bigger server. |
| Rub:
--- Quote from: Hammereditor5 on March 17, 2014, 07:08:05 AM ---No, I have 3 virtual CPU cores, not one. Well, I just cannot afford a dedicated server right now. It's impossible due to the scale of my hosting service.Well, I have 2 good choices, which are from Hosting above: • $80: Xeon L5410 (quad-core), 16 GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB HDD • $100: Dual Xeon L5410, 24 GB DDR2 RAM, 1 TB HDD To get any of these, I'll need to fill up my current VPS in order to prove that I will get enough clients to pay for most of the cost of a bigger server. --- End quote --- stuffty old CPUs, we had e3-1270v3s with 32GB RAM for similar prices. |
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