[cod] Semi off topic: COD rentals

[Neil @ TWA Studios]

To John's point though, running 15-20 COD servers on one box is not the
same as running 15-20 CS, COD, TFC etc etc servers on one Dual Xeon 2.4
w/ 2GB RAM.

They use more resources and you'll find the box and network will choke
at around 11-14 servers depending upon slots size.

We've had a max of 170-225 slots on a Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz w/ 2GB RAM
running RH 3.0 and that tends to do great with traffic and none of the
gamers complain.

--Neil



-----Original Message-----
From: John Kennington [mailto:john.kennington at buzzcard.gatech.edu] 
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:04 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [cod] Semi off topic: COD rentals

Depending on the number of cpus in the box, you can run 10 to 15 CoD
servers per
box.  So it is quite cost effective.

John Kennington

-----Original Message-----
From: Jafo [mailto:jafo at nowhere.ca] 
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 3:58 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: [cod] Semi off topic: COD rentals

Hello,

If this isn't the forum for this question, please forgive me for asking
here.

There seems like a lot of people on this list that run "server rental"
operations. Just curious how people are doing that cost effectively?
Obviously one can't run each customer's game server on seperate
hardware.
Are people using some sort of "virtual linux" installs to run multiple
servers on one box with seperate IP addresses? If that is the case how
many servers would one dual 2.4 Xeon w/2gig RAM run?

Thanks,
Jafo