Tekkit Lite Server Hosting for 10 connections. What to look for?

[blsmith2112]

I own our current Tekkit Lite server, but am looking to branch out and find a new external host.

On my server, we usually have 4 people on at a time but sometimes we get a spike in players totalling 5-10. As soon as my server hits 6 people, lag becomes a serious problem. My server has 25/MBs download, 8GB of ram (5GB allocated), and 1MB/s upload.

Several hosting providers I've been reading say that you can handle a 10 player server on 512MB of ram, but whenever I look at my task-manager on my server - it's always using more than 4GB. We have factories, nuclear power plants, quarries, etc. I want to make sure that whatever server host I choose is the right one. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Riley - NZL]

The spec's of your server should normally handle 5-10 players easy, however certain things, particularly large factories can using huge amounts of RAM and processor cycles. Restricting certain items, or size of factories can greatly reduce the strain on the server, if you would prefer to keep using your existing server. You could also add more RAM to your current server, it's pretty cheap to buy these days.