Server - Does this meet requirements?

[Duckimus Maximus]

He already noted that he had in the past hosted locally from his house, without any lag complaints.

Plus he also posted his bandwidth.

If this is indeed true, and I have no reason to believe that it's not, you argument appears to be redundant.

[karl2002]

This is turning more into a agruement so i back down.

[Alectro91]

I wasn't intending on letting it go any further into an argument, I just wanted to make sure that you understood what I was looking for.

[Duckimus Maximus]

I'm sorry if I came across too hostile my people skills aren't very good :)

[Alectro91]

With the help you have been, I don't blame you at all! :)

[Alectro91]

So... I have been looking around again, but all the servers I could find seemed either sucky or too expensive.

Does anyone have a good brand I can look into, or maybe a good server I can buy?

[nicko6113]

the poweredge 2950 is not made anymore however it is still a powerful machine. the only thing is its a rack mount

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELL-POWEREDGE-2950-GEN2-2-X-DUAL-CORE-3-0GHZ-4GB-73GB-10K-COMBO-PERC5-DRAC5-/170887823590?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item27c9b540e6#ht_1476wt_985

then you may want

http://www.ebay.com/itm/370632768976?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649#ht_1572wt_985

it handles whatever i throw at it wile running 4 additional windows installations in hyperv. you can put regular sata drives in it if you want more space.

[Alectro91]

This is a great find, and an awesome machine. But... It only ships in the US. I live in the Netherlands.

Its kinda far to travel don't you think?

[Alectro91]

Dell PE 2950 I & II & III

Processor

1 x [PE 2950] 1 x 2.00 GHz / Dual Core / FSB 1333 / Cache 4MB / Xeon 5130 [HD 4x3.5] / Type I€ 120,00

Windows Server COA License

1 x Geen (extra) Licentie € 0,00

Memory Slots 1 + 2

1 x 2 GB (2x 1024MB) PC2-5300F DDR2-667 ECC € 7,00

Memory Slots 3 + 4

1 x 2 GB (2x 1024MB) PC2-5300F DDR2-667 ECC € 7,00

Memory Slots 5 + 6

1 x 2 GB (2x 1024MB) PC2-5300F DDR2-667 ECC € 7,00

Memory Slots 7 + 8

1 x 2 GB (2x 1024MB) PC2-5300F DDR2-667 ECC € 7,00

Dell Remote Acces Module (DRAC)

1 x No DRAC € 0,00

Raid / Storage Controller

1 x Dell SAS 5/i - SAS/SATA Harddisk controller € 19,00

Harddisk

1 x 500GB 7.2K SATA 3.5'' Origineel Dell, P/N 0DR237 € 79,00

Optical Drive

1 x DVD CD-RW drive PE2950 original Dell € 52,00

1e PSU / Power Supply Unit

1 x Power Supply Dell PowerEdge 29x0 € 59,00

2e PSU / Power Supply Unit - (redundant) LET OP : dient gelijk aan 1e PSU te zijn

1 x Geen PSU / Power Supply Unit € 0,00

Rack rails

1 x No Rack rails . € 0,00

Front bezel

1 x Front Bezel PowerEdge 2950 € 29,50

Total Price

€ 386,50 ex. VAT (€ 459.94 incl. VAT)

[VideoBoy]

If you get a VPS, don't sign up for long term. Test them out first. A lot (and I mean the vast majority) of VPS sellers oversell their computers. Sure you get 2 or 4 or 8 gigs of RAM guaranteed, but they don't guarantee how much CPU time you get and they can give you crap in that regard. I moved my server to a VPS twice and both times my server kept freezing up due either to low CPU time or I/O time. The CPU was pretty much the same I have at home and the internet was at least 20 times faster so yeah. Watch out for these.

[Duckimus Maximus]

I honestly wouldn't recommend a duo core CPU to run a server. I'm not that familiar with tekkit's CPU loads but in general that's not going to be enough.

But seeing you're Dutch, check out www.alternate.nl it's a cheapish on-line store. They sell pre-built, and components as well and I have had good experiences with their service too.

[Alectro91]

I have to go to work now, but I'll check it out in 2 or 3 hours.

Thanks!

[Alectro91]

I cant seem to find any servers on alternate.nl ?

[VideoBoy]

I honestly wouldn't recommend a duo core CPU to run a server. I'm not that familiar with tekkit's CPU loads but in general that's not going to be enough.

But seeing you're Dutch, check out www.alternate.nl it's a cheapish on-line store. They sell pre-built, and components as well and I have had good experiences with their service too.

>implying Tekkit/Bukkit/Minecraft have multicore support

The only way you're gonna be using those extra cores is if you have multi-core capable plugins like Orebfuscator or Dynmap. A blank Tekkit server with no plugins will not use the extra cores at all. Maybe some Java garbage collection threads but that's it.

[Alectro91]

I found the dell poweredge 2950 for 299$.

But... when I click customise, it already adds 200$.

http://store.flagshiptech.com/dell-poweredge-2950-2x-2-0ghz-dual-core-intel-xeon-5130-cpus-4gb/

Will this do, without configuring, and maybe upgrading the ram to 6/8GB myself?

[BlasterMaster555]

You want your CPU to be over 3 GHz to really run those higher player numbers with speed.

[Alectro91]

So do you have any link to a server which has that, for around 300$ ?

[Alectro91]

Bump?

[BlasterMaster555]

Not gonna find a system that fast for that price. I built mine from parts on ebay, so it's a 3.2 GHz Phenom II 955 (3.2 GHz Quad Core), 8 GB DDR2, and so on and so forth. Also, I put a cheap graphics card so that integrated graphics wouldn't bog the system. And yes, it does make a difference.

I can also upgrade the system by dropping in an AM3+ board and DDR3 RAM and use the existing CPU.

[Alectro91]

I found these 3: http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/choosing-a-server-please-help.22292/

Are they any good?