Hardware/Bandwith Requirements

[not_hanz]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but hopefully it's ok. I'm thinking of trying to setup my own server, and I have 2 questions for anyone out there that has their own server.

1. What kind of hardware requirements am I going to be looking at for a good server? I would be interested in hearing what kinds of boxes that you all have your servers running on... and how many people you feel you can support playing at once... I would also be interested in any data that anyone has on the difference between the windows and the linux server... I'm assumeing the linux one probably requires less of a machine seeing the OS has less overhead...


2. What kind of bandwith does your server suck up? This is a major concern of mine. The hardware isnt that big of a deal... its a onetime expense... I'm curious about how much bandwith some of the servers take up as I am going to have to be paying the bandwith bills out of my pocket. As before, any and all details about this are welcome.


Thanks much

Not Hanz

[Merth]

I have been able to support a load of 20 users before things got laggy with the following:

p4 2.0ghz
1gb ram (mem usage was ~450mb though)
broadband cable internet connection
windows xp

However, if people AE or pull massive trains, things got painful.

Everything was contained within this single machine - database, zone servers, and world server.

[boxen]

You used that puter as a dedicated server? and still lagged?

[burthold]

I ran some network usage a while back and found that a single user uses about 5mb an hour that goes up when more people are logged in per person but not a much. I've had 5 people logged into my box at once with no lag issues its a celeron 667 with 256 mb of ram.

Wes

[not_hanz]

excellent! thats exactally the kinda info I was looking for! Thanks much!