Anyone have a dedicated T1 server?

Our laddering team recently lost its dedicated game server. We have a website and players, anyone have a dedicated game server and no team? We would like to matchin Raven Shield ( after punkbusters is released for it ) and Battlefield1942. Any takers? Our website is www.teamxcalibur.com:D

 

I might have a server sitting on a 24MBit line at some point in the future, but it needs to be built what kinda loads are we talking about?

And also its gunna cost.... so you might need to subsidise me a bit on it if your going to use it a lot...

Also it would be running RedHat linux on it, primarily, but can dual boot with 2k3 server if needed..

 

Glodfish, I am not real educated on the different kind of business connections. Is a 24MBT comparable to a T1?

The loads we would require are just the games and something to access the server to update maps, patches, etc.

If your serious, what are you looking at for cost?

We would be using it alot, playing evenings, weekends, clan ladder matches, etc.

 

im not completley sure of the costs right now, i have to talk with the guys hosting it for me, but how many players do you recon will be playing at a time?

btw 24MBit is like fiber-optic link, so yeah basically as good as t1 .actually ill check it out...

 

A full T1 line is 1.5Mbit. Bit meaning, 8 Bits per a Byte.
So, 1.5Mbit = 187.5kbps (thousand bytes per second).
24Mbits = 3mbps (3000kbps).

A game like BF1942 takes about 4-5kbps, per a player.
A T1 line can hold about 42 men, max.

T1 lines usally cost $600-$800 a month, + install fees.

No one is just going to give up bandwidth for free.

Even if someone has a T3 45mbits, its still costing around $350+ per Mbit. In fact, most don't see a huge price decrease until you hit OC-12 levels.

Your clans best bet would be to get a Co-Lo server from someone such as this, www.servermatrix.com
You would have to build a server, probably at least
1.6GHz
256MB
10GB HD
The 100GB for $50 a month would let your clan game on the weekends just fine.

I hope I didn't confuse anyone, including myself.

 

Thank you for the link, I have been looking into colocation but I still have a few questions.

What are they talking about when they talk about 100 GB Bandwidth? We play more than just the weekends and I am wondering if we would use more than 100 GB per month. I am not sure if it is data input/output per month or they are referring to speed?

 

100GB is is the max input/output. Theres no way of knowing how fast in will input or output, at times you could have heavy lag.
The 100GB would only allow you to play about 25+ hours a week.

 

Thanks for all your help.. I have another question though......

I want to run two games, BF1942 and Ravenshield off the same server as well as a voice-ip server such as Ventrillo or Teamspeak. How much of a server do I need to run these programs without a problem, ie.... cpu, RAM, etc....

 

Probably dual 2GHz CPU's, 1GB RAM, dual HD's, and a crap load of bandwidth.

 

however, if you've got a decent computer at home along with a decent internet connection (for example, I'm on 1.5Mbit Cable atm, switching to 11Mbit wireless in 3 weeks orso) you could run the voice-ip software off of your own computer.