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Root Server Hosting

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aznbomber

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I was wondering if anybody knew of any good Root Server Hosts. Currently, I am looking at the $99/month + $99 one time setup fee package from 1and1.

It offers a root server w/
# Intel Pentium 4
3.06 GHz Hyper-Threaded or higher
# 1,000 MB DDR RAM
# 120 GB IDE hard drive
# 500 GB monthly transfer volume

FMI: http://order.1and1.com/xml/ord...45A.TC62b?__frame=_top

Just to clear some confusion before confusion arises:
1and1 root servers come with Plesk 7.5 and the website explicitly says that you are allowed to run gameservers (counterstrike).

I need a root server because i am looking to setup counterstrike servers, ventrillo servers, and also do some hosting.


Also, I do not know whether or not this server is enough for me to setup 2 counter-strike servers. 1 running for 20 ppl and the other running for 14 ppl. Also run at most 2 simultaneous ventrilo servers. and serve a couple of websites.

From the information that I gathered. CS server uses approx 60mhz/player connected. Hopeflly that means that running two CS servers will only hog approx 2GHz of the total server's power. I do not know if that is the way to calculate/approximate these figures, so I was wondering if you guys could help out.

If you guys have any suggestions on whether or not this would work and if you guys know of a better root server, please let me know.

Thanks in advanced.
 
You might be OK since it's a 3.06GHz processor, so it has HT, which may ease the strain a bit.

One way to find out would be check the Steampowered forums, or a CS website and ask other admins what setups they have, and how well they handle the load.
Best way to find out is to get other peoples experiences.
 
Originally posted by: blueplazma
What do you mean by root server? Do you mean a DNS host?
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I'm assuming he means one where he gets a root account 🙂
I don't know about CS 1.6 or Source since I stopped my server after they shut down WON, but running a 16 player CS server on my Duron 650 hardly taxed it at all, so unless the requirements have gone up by a huge bit, you shouldn't have any problems with CS.
Don't know what this ventrilo thing is though, so no comment.
 
thanks for the current suggestions. I will try to look further into this. Does anybody know what other good hosting companies offer root servers that can be used as gameservers?
 
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