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Rub:
--- Quote from: hammereditor² on October 24, 2013, 10:02:58 PM ---Why does Lub buy big servers with 32 GB RAM, although he doesn't use half of it? To show off?
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Simply because we want to offer a high quality service whilst maintaining high capacity per physical server. 50 Blockland servers (roughly our capacity per node) can potentially use a lot of RAM and I'd much rather have a lot of wasted RAM than run out of RAM. Whilst we were at it we thought we might as well just get some of the best processors and SSDs anyway, quality can't hurt ;)
BuildaBox:
You server hosts and your fancy server specs...
Whenever I host a dedicated server I just use an old Windows XP with 512 mb of RAM.
Cowboy6:
--- Quote from: Rub on October 25, 2013, 01:16:23 PM ---Simply because we want to offer a high quality service whilst maintaining high capacity per physical server. 50 Blockland servers (roughly our capacity per node) can potentially use a lot of RAM and I'd much rather have a lot of wasted RAM than run out of RAM. Whilst we were at it we thought we might as well just get some of the best processors and SSDs anyway, quality can't hurt ;)
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Exactly. Always budget more than you think you'll ever need, as you might actually need it, for example several servers could get very popular and have lot of players on each one, which increases the overall RAM and CPU usage exponentially, or somebody decides to host a new years party with lots of players etc. You have the security of knowing the extra capacity is there in case it's needed.
hammereditor²:
--- Quote from: Cowboy6 on October 25, 2013, 01:44:37 PM ---Exactly. Always budget more than you think you'll ever need, as you might actually need it, for example several servers could get very popular and have lot of players on each one, which increases the overall RAM and CPU usage exponentially, or somebody decides to host a new years party with lots of players etc. You have the security of knowing the extra capacity is there in case it's needed.
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I also do the same thing, but not as much as RTB.
I have to worry about RAM rather than CPU.
So far, I'm stuck with the current configuration unless at least 3 premium users have steady subscriptions. That would increase the RAM by 2 GB. HostingAbove said that I can get each GB of additional RAM for $5.
2 GB would support 7 Blocklands.
Blake1:
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