HDD

Quylein · #1 12-09-2004, 04:49 AM

I am thinking about making a server and try my hand at all of this. My one and only real question is what is the minimum spec for a good server to run? How big does my Hard Drive need to be to how fast should my server be? Any help with this would be much apprechiated thanks.

Cobalt · #2 12-09-2004, 05:11 AM

While I have not run a server for quite some time, I would suggest at least the following:

Minimum:

1. AMD Athlon XP 2.4 GHZ or a Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHZ processor
2. 512 MB RAM minimum at least; PC133 based, DDR recommended.
3. 200 MB of space on your drive; 200 MB should be more than enough.

Recommended:
1. AMD Athlon XP 3.2 GHZ or Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ processor
2. 2 GB DDR RAM (it will help in ALL very highly)
3. 400 MB space on your drive, which probably will be more than needed; and more than said above.

These are just rough sketches; as I said before, it’s been a while, and I have messed around lately on my system (1.5 GHZ) and a 800 MHZ aside of it, and had no issues; but I never had more than 3 accounts connected by LAN, so…Your performance most likely will vary.

I hope this helps some, good luck.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quylein

I am thinking about making a server and try my hand at all of this. My one and only real question is what is the minimum spec for a good server to run? How big does my Hard Drive need to be to how fast should my server be? Any help with this would be much apprechiated thanks.

#3 12-09-2004, 12:30 PM

need a decient processor at LEAST a gig of ram, and a t-1 connection or better.

The server that can handle more then 10-15 people are all hosted at data centers on real servers.

sdabbs65 · #4 12-10-2004, 01:22 AM

3. 200 MB of space on your drive; 200 MB should be more than enough.

eh ? my database alone is 300MB
I think you ment Gig maybe...

Quylein · #5 12-10-2004, 04:18 AM

Thanks for the knowlege

Muuss · #6 12-10-2004, 08:03 PM

Map files needed for LOS and pathing occupy more than 1Gb, database around 50 Mo (PEQ Kunark), tho expect at least 500 Mo for the upcoming DBs, I d say 2Gb total.

Anyway, asking his question is kinda hard since he never say how many people he wanna handle. A pentium 200 with 48Mo RAM is enough to run a server for 2 players (longer download times for sure due to memory lack).