Post in here if you have a linux server and can host games for THN ...

Haven

Haven

Administrator
Staff member
This is a very open ended question and something I'm curious about, as well as something that may dictate the way THN goes about hosting its games in the future.

Do you own or have access to a Linux (or potentially windows) box that you can run games on, either at home or online ? (dedicated boxes only - not gaming rigs)

Would you be prepared to run games under the THN "banner" if you do ?

If the answer to both is yes could you post up some specs below so we've an idea of what we have access to - I'm not suggesting this is something we'd make use of 24x7 but it may be useful to be able to fire up games for allocated gaming nights.

As an idea of what we host, currently we run a Left4Dead1 and Left4Dead2 Server, a TeamFortress2 Server and a Minecraft Server all running on linux.

Thanks in advance.

Haven

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I'm a yes on both, I've a crappy home DSL connection but hopefully at some point that will improve. That asside I've Saratoga at home and thats capable of hosting most things.

Network - ADSL 448k upstream
Server - 4 x 2.6GHz core Opteron, 8GB Ram
 
Traxata

Traxata

Junior Administrator
I am the same as you, and can't realistically do any hosting until either of my location connections gets faster, I am 500 meters away from FTTC at the office :(
 
bacon

bacon

Well-Known Member
Macro Level has a Linux server on our business broadband connection.

Up: 832Kbps
Down: 7616Kbps

model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU E1400 @ 2.00GHz
cache size : 512 KB
cpu cores : 2

MemTotal: 775532 kB

I'd have to discuss any THN use with vibs as it is our external DNS server.
 
VibroAxe

VibroAxe

Junior Administrator
bacon said:
I'd have to discuss any THN use with vibs as it is our external DNS server.
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No issue from me on a temporary basis. If you want more processing power there are 4 windows boxes which we could possibly play around with.

Also, hope to look into Virgin Buisness cable or BT Infinity once it arrives at the end of our current contract
 
luc

luc

Junior Administrator
I could organise something running on my linux box at home, but it's nothing special. Stats-wise (following Bacon's statline):

model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz
cache size: 8192 KB
cpu cores: 4
MemTotal: 8187012 kB

And on Virgin 50Mb, last test:
UP: 4,935 Kbps
DOWN: 51,087.36 Kbps

As it may seem that way, this is not a gaming rig. It is a desktop system but I do run stuff off of it. If there is a mac server option, or I can jerry rig linux I can have my old MacMini running it; using the same connection:

1.83Ghz, 2 cores
2GB RAM

Have a look and see what you think, I know it's not much but if it can be used at least in an interim period the offer is there.
 
Spicypixel

Spicypixel

New Member
Just to point out VM is now throttling/prioritising stuff on the upstream as well as the down. Tried to host a small game of OpenTTD - so hardly ping intensive at peak time between 4 people and pinging the server from their client machines was yielding 300ms and we're all in the UK on VM.

CURSES VIRGIN MEDIA.
 
Haven

Haven

Administrator
Staff member
Thats a hell of a rig Luc, I think you could safely host 10 HavenNet's on that :)
 
luc

luc

Junior Administrator
Let me know what you want to do, and we can sit down and discuss doing something.
 
Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Haven said:
Thats a hell of a rig Luc, I think you could safely host 10 HavenNet's on that :)
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And.... half a minecraft? :p


"As it may seem that way, this is not a gaming rig. It is a desktop system but I do run stuff off of it."

Whats the difference between a desktop system that you run stuff on, and a gaming rig?
 
Traxata

Traxata

Junior Administrator
Yeah, pretty much. Java is a RAM hog, Haven's played with varying settings of how much RAM we're allowed to use for it...
 
Haven

Haven

Administrator
Staff member
Needs a gig of ram to run and either access to an SSD or a gig of ram as a file system to keep lag at bay.
 
Iron_fist

Iron_fist

Super Moderator
Staff member
i should be building a VM box this summer, currently looking at the 45W AMD quad core chips and 8GB RAM.

i'm sitting on a BE line so have about 1800kbs up and 14500kbs down with most latency seen outside the BE network, though i do need to contact BE and find out why one of their nameservers doesn't resolve my ip correctly causing issues, certainly for bob, and possibly a couple of others.
 
VibroAxe

VibroAxe

Junior Administrator
Iron_fist said:
i should be building a VM box this summer, currently looking at the 45W AMD quad core chips and 8GB RAM.

i'm sitting on a BE line so have about 1800kbs up and 14500kbs down with most latency seen outside the BE network, though i do need to contact BE and find out why one of their nameservers doesn't resolve my ip correctly causing issues, certainly for bob, and possibly a couple of others.
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I love be, but i did find their name servers just fucking suck!
 
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