Setting up a game/forum server?

[watdahel]

Please be gentle.

How do I set up a game server. Do I just upload the game to a web server and run it or do I have to subscribe to a server specifically designed for games?

When choosing a server do I look for the closest one to my location to get the fastest bandwidth when I play a game or upload stuff?

How much bandwidth does a typical game server, running a single game, use in a month?

I also want to set up a forum. How much bandwidth will that cost me in a month?

 

[Smilin]

What kind of game are you talking about? The ones I'm thinking of (Quake, bf1942, CS etc) you don't 'upload' anywhere. You have a dedicated PC or Server with good internet connection and run it on that out of your house.

A Forum you could probably have hosted by someone - no idea on cost or bandwidth.

Game servers use 1-4KB/sec per player. It's not the throughput in bytes that gets you it's usually the packets per second.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Smilin
What kind of game are you talking about? The ones I'm thinking of (Quake, bf1942, CS etc) you don't 'upload' anywhere. You have a dedicated PC or Server with good internet connection and run it on that out of your house.

A Forum you could probably have hosted by someone - no idea on cost or bandwidth.

Game servers use 1-4KB/sec per player. It's not the throughput in bytes that gets you it's usually the packets per second.

low, low numers, bf1942 takes at a minimum of 56k up/down per player for a server with a t1 line you will likely only get 24 players max, before running into lag problems.

 

[Smilin]

I'll stand by those numbers. The actual data down to the client is minimal. The packet sizes are very tiny, there's just a bunch of them which is why 56k's don't keep up very well. Run perfmon while you're gaming sometime.