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WinterBite Ch3: Strongholds Bloody Course [RP] [CH3 Started!!!]
Hammereditor5:
--- Quote from: Rub on March 17, 2014, 07:10:39 AM ---stuffty old CPUs, we had e3-1270v3s with 32GB RAM for similar prices.
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That would cost me $145, A.K.A too much. I'll buy one of these when my hosting service expands enough.
I know the Xeons here are old, but Hosting above uses old hardware.
But I do believe an L5410 is enough because I used Hosting above's 4 GB VPS plan for 2 months with HamHost.
Anyway, I've been considering getting business internet (lets you host servers) and hosting the servers at home. This could be more cheap in the long term. The 12 hours of power outage time each year does not matter much; I can just add compensation time.
I would have 2 choices for hardware:
• Keep it the same. Use the existing Athlon II x4 in my old computer. Use the 8 GB DDR2 RAM.
• New hardware: Get a new AM3+ motherboard ($80), new AMD FX-6300 CPU ($130), 16 GB of DDR3 RAM ($120), and a CM hyper 212 evo CPU cooler ($40). The total cost is $270. I would also overclock the CPU to 4.2 GHz to add performance.
The only problem is that the 2-year contract from Verizon is still active and getting their business plans may not be possible until the contract expires.
Rub:
--- Quote from: Hammereditor5 on March 17, 2014, 07:30:05 AM ---That would cost me $145, A.K.A too much. I'll buy one of these when my hosting service expands enough.
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Nobody in the entire world pays list price for servers.
Hammereditor5:
--- Quote from: Rub on March 17, 2014, 07:38:56 AM ---Nobody in the entire world pays list price for servers.
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So you bargained with Mania? What was the final price?
Hammereditor5:
While I'm waiting until I can test the true CPU usage of Winter bite, I decided to do a file compression test with 7-zip to test raw CPU usage.
I used the "Fast" setting with Bzip2 on one CPU thread, compressing the same data for each machine. The results are:
• Athlon II x4 635 (similar to CBMhost): 246 seconds
• One of the VPS's cores: 250 seconds
As you can see, the single-core CPU power of both hosting services in nearly identical. My server being a VPS makes my CPU a bit slower than normal, so it's 250 s.
So I would expect the same player capacity as CBMhost. Will the capacities be no higher than 10 players? We'll see!
Alphadin:
While learning a lot of technical server stuff is my absolute favorite thing to do, Hammer is only really trying to cover himself and wasted about three+ pages doing so.
--- Quote from: Hammereditor5 on March 16, 2014, 10:10:21 PM ---Because I am trying to convince you all that not being able to host this is not something wrong with my hosting service.
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You not being able to host something is still your problem. If a car engine fails, people generally tend to get pissed off more at the where the car came from than at the engine engineers.
If we end up settling for a different host, oh well, all you've done was waste 3+ pages on our topic explaining to us clear as day how you can't host us, and all it does is make you look bad if you end up able to.