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Fi$hy

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I think as a basic, Serenity always has T.S AS (on all the time?) and the website running off of it.

On sunday night's it also gets a 32 player BF2 server going, which it "just about" copes with.

That a good enough gauge?
 

Ronin Storm

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Hmm, I'm not totally certain what we're running, but I know the list has included (in recent history)...

  • Alien Swarm (x2), with web admin *
  • Battlefield 2 for 32 players *
  • Natural Selection for 20ish players
  • THN Games site, incl. vBulletin + mySQL backend *
  • THN Comedy site, incl. phpBB + mySQL backend *
  • THN Radio site plus the archive *
  • Icecast with broadband (128kbit) stream playing continually *
  • Unreal Tournament 2004 in various configs
  • Various downloads, notably for UT2004 *
  • TeamSpeak *

I'm sure there's some other stuff I'm not aware of too. I doubt all that is running concurrently, but I've marked with a * the things that I believe to be frequent fliers.

Haven or Pestcontrol would be better able to answer this question I suspect.
 

Haven

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Thats a pretty comprehensive list - technically the BF2 server is 64 players but I doubt it will ever see that ammount of use.

We've also the usual web app trappings (php, mysql, apache, exim +antispam/antivirus, vsftpd). Oh and we've got webstats running on most of the virtuals now. We're also running an X server with NX for those occassions where a remote desktop is necessary. Finally we've a bittorrent client on there which we occassionally kick in (legal torrents only !).

Although they aren't running atm we have CS:S and I believe still NS installed.

All that on one wee little box :)

Our main bottlenecks are memory (1GB) and CPU (3GHz) in that order. The only way we'll overcome those is to spend around ?3000 on a machine to co-loc and then ?150/month for the co-loc cost. Valueserver do not provide any further upgrades for the system we use. In short we're living with the server limitations for a while :)

Despite the above we've still plenty of resources to run events on the understanding that we temporarily close down BF2 to run whatever other game server is needed for the duration of the event.
 

pHatBambi

In Cryo Sleep
On sunday night's it also gets a 32 player BF2 server going, which it "just about" copes with.

Actually Serenity behaved herself during the last clan match we played so that's a big bonus.

Thats a pretty comprehensive list - technically the BF2 server is 64 players but I doubt it will ever see that ammount of use.

We shall see about that. ;)
 

Nanor

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Oooh.. Bambi's got a plan. And Serenity performed very well, compared to the other times!
 

Ronin Storm

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Glad to hear Serenity is behaving, or at least the patch of network around her is being less troublesome!
 
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