Post: #11

Got a question.

What's a decent server host spec? What am I looking for?

I'm being realistic I'm not going to host a server for more than 50 people , probably not even close to that. But let's say I get very lucky and have a server with 100 players on.

What specs for a dedicated server am I looking for? Is 1gb ram and 20TB Traffic/Bandwidth enough?

xo,
Fronz.

Post: #12

1gb of RAM should do fine. If you DO end up with a decent amount of concurrent online players, you might consider going solid state, your saves will be much faster. Other than that, any half decent modern processor will do just fine. I used to run a shard with friends, had 30+ clients on an ancient Dell Dimension with 1gb of RAM and an old single core 1.3ghz pentium on a 20 down 4 up cable connection.

Nowadays, I plan to host a public shard inside a virtual machine on a Linux box with 2gb of allocated RAM and partial access to the i5 quad core. Might not even need to give it more than 1 core, who knows, we'll have to do some testing.

Post: #13

Preferable high speed core. Sphere runs in two cores so high speed cores = no lag while ticking. Of course it depends on server load. Solid state is not really needed. The main runtime when saving world if the loop over thousands of items / chars.

Post: #14

(04-25-2016 03:26 PM)roberpot Wrote:  The main runtime when saving world if the loop over thousands of items / chars.

Background save? Or it's still not working?

Post: #15

Yeah you can use background saves if you prefer ;-)

Post: #16

(04-26-2016 12:00 AM)roberpot Wrote:  Yeah you can use background saves if you prefer ;-)

It works normally or you are joking?

Post: #17

It works.

Post: #18

Thousands of items and chars is certainly possible with a 100+ client base :-) I'm partial to SSD anyway for the boot times. I ran a test, a Kingston SSD vs. a WD Red Drive, Lubuntu boot up time, can't remember exact results but less than 10 seconds vs over 20 seconds.

Post: #19

Yes but boot time on a machine that works 24/7 isnt really important. And the loader will not take more than 20-30 seconds to load sphere. If you are looking for a server and has limited economic resources, i think the priority is: core speed, ram, network and then disk capacity and disk speed.

Post: #20

(04-26-2016 02:57 PM)roberpot Wrote:  If you are looking for a server and has limited economic resources, i think the priority is: core speed, ram, network and then disk capacity and disk speed.

I have Core 2 Duo E8600 (3.33 GHz), ASRock G41M-VS3, Dual channel GoodRAM 1 GB DDR3 1333 MHz (GR1333D364L9/1G) and SSD Silicon Power 32GB S55. It works fast and cost around 160$

Core 2 Duo E8600: ~24$
ASRock G41M-VS3: ~70$
GoodRAM 1 GB DDR3 1333 MHz (GR1333D364L9/1G): ~37$
SSD Silicon Power 32GB S55: ~30$