Computer Question

Jonathan5 · #1 07-24-2007, 11:48 AM

I go to tigerdirect, but yeah 1500 is probably the cheapest you'd find. Anyways you could probably just run it off a computer with an abundant amount of memory and hard drive space. Running the world on seperate machines is a good idea, I've seen it down for a private UO server I use to play on. Many possiblities.

sfisque · #2 07-24-2007, 12:06 PM

yah, to be honest, unless you're looking at hosting tons of players, a moderately stoked server will run the emu and you can even host the DB on commodity hardware (i host on a amd sempron 3000+ 1gig ram, my DB server is a Celeron P3-700 - 384mb ram). the database machine barely notices mysql.

== sfisque

techguy84 · #3 07-24-2007, 12:56 PM

Like Mr. Adams said, the emu is pretty well rounded as far as what you need to run it. It is going to boil down to your internet connection for the most part. You could get a good server, but without a fast internet connection, all that hardware goes to waste.

I think the player banwidth usage is roughly 2-5KB per sec up/per player. If you do the math, most home based broadband solutions fail quite short in thise arena so I would look at that first.

devn00b · #4 07-24-2007, 12:58 PM

In my experience there are several bottlenecks that have to be looked at when considering things. Ram size, cpu power, and also router.

1st two for obvious reasons. The router is rather important, most normal home routers just cant handle the # of connections required for large servers, Guildwars had this problem.

While you can run a server with a few zones on a p3 or hell maybe a p2 you wont be able to have too many zones open the cpu just wont keep up.

techguy84 · #5 07-24-2007, 03:15 PM

My DSL router is the same damn way. It tends to go into a safe mode when I leave me torrents running overnight due to a overload in connections. I think it handles like 100 or so connections in total, half opens, ups, downs, ect.. I have to do a reboot on it sometimes as it damn near disables the WAN side interface killing my connections.

Cowboy6534 · #6 07-26-2007, 01:34 PM

So im building a new rig at newegg.com and its basically a 3.0g amd dual core with 6gigs of ddr2(800) corsair xms. also my dsl at my house it is 5megs dl and 768ul. I run just a modem and a switch. i was wondering if i could use this machine to run the server and play in the server at the same time?? switch is a linksys 5 port workgroup switch. Any thoughts or suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Damilis · #7 07-26-2007, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Cowboy6534

So im building a new rig at newegg.com and its basically a 3.0g amd dual core with 6gigs of ddr2(800) corsair xms. also my dsl at my house it is 5megs dl and 768ul. I run just a modem and a switch. i was wondering if i could use this machine to run the server and play in the server at the same time?? switch is a linksys 5 port workgroup switch. Any thoughts or suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Just becareful about what OS you pick. Some Windows OS's don't address anything past 3 Gigs of physical ram. Do a bit of research before dropping all that $$ on ram.

As for all on one machine... two physical machines are better, if you can swing it.

DarkGothic · #8 07-26-2007, 03:13 PM

I am running on and old gateway server I got from surplus shop it has 4-733 Xeon and 8g ram 60g-sisc. run good for me and all my friends to play on, you can find good old server all the time CHEEP!! I only paid $20 for it. Look around and start with and older one to see if it is what you relay like.